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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions applicable to regional unions of health professionals whose members are appointed

Article D4031-17

An order of the ministers responsible for health and social security sets the allocation of seats in each union between the trade union organisations. This distribution is established by proportional…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Cooperative societies.

Article R4131-17

A member who is excluded from the cooperative under the conditions set out in article R. 4131-16 or who withdraws from the cooperative is only entitled to the reimbursement of his contribution. If the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General authorisation conditions.

Article R4211-17

Articles R. 1243-4 to R. 1243-10 and R. 1243-12 to R. 1243-14 are applicable to establishments or organisations carrying out the activities of preparation, storage, distribution or transfer of gene th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice of the profession by students.

Article D4151-17

Student midwives who interrupt their studies may practise the profession of midwife as a replacement if they satisfy the conditions defined in article D. 4151-15. The replacement authorisation is issu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Registration of members of the profession and non-practising graduates

Article R4221-17

The suspension decision issued pursuant to article L. 4221-18 is notified to the pharmacist by the competent administrative authority by hand-delivered letter against a receipt. The decision shall spe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties.

Article R4235-17

Any cessation of professional activity, any transfer of professional premises or any change in the ownership, pharmaceutical management or corporate structure of a pharmacy, a pharmaceutical company,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Counting of votes

Article D4233-17

The original minutes of the voting and counting operations with its appendices, the media files including the copy of the source programmes and executable programmes, the count, results and backup fil…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Qualifying conditions

Article A742-17

The oral examinations are held in open session. They are marked from 0 to 20. Each mark is assigned a coefficient of 2.Admission is decided by the selection board on the basis of the average obtained…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: Markets of national interest and commercial events.

Article A762-17

Personal data are kept on computer for a period of five years from the date on which they were last modified.Non-personal data are kept on computer for a period of ten years from the date on which the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Registration

Article A822-17

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