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Showing 79517960 of 41543 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 4-5-2011 n° 09-72.550

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Self-employed practitioners

Article L6154-5-1

A regional commission on private practice is placed under the authority of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency.The commission periodically draws up a regional report on the self-employe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Multiannual agreements on objectives and resources

Article L6114-4

For the private health care institutions mentioned in d of article L. 162-22-6 of the Social Security Code, the contracts set the rates for the services mentioned in 1° of article L. 162-22-1 in compl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Persons authorised to practise the profession of pharmacy assistant

Article D4241-4

Candidates preparing for the pharmacy assistant vocational diploma through continuing vocational training may benefit from a positioning decision issued by the academy rector in application of article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Holders of the state diploma

Article D4322-4

The training leading to the State diploma in chiropody and podiatry lasts three years, i.e. six semesters of twenty weeks each. The teaching is broken down as follows 1° Theoretical and practical trai…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 388-4

In the event of prosecution by summons provided for in Article 390 or summons provided for in article 390-1, the parties' lawyers may consult the case file at the registry of the judicial court as soo…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions relating to the regional sports conference

Article R112-41

At its first plenary meeting, the regional conference elects, by a simple majority of the members present, a chairman and two vice-chairmen who may not be from the same college. The chairman of the re…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives.

Article L5312-4

In the cases mentioned in articles L. 5312-1, L. 5312-2 and L. 5312-3, and in all cases where the interests of public health so require, the health authorities shall, if necessary, inform the general…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Exceptional provisions relating to selective distribution aid

Article 919-40

By way of derogation from 1° of article 223-4, for the selective aid for the distribution of unreleased works provided for in article 221-24 allocated for a given work from the entry into force of del…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Provisions specific to Mayotte

Article R4437-4

The Mayotte council for culture, education and the environment comprises twenty-two members, including:1° Seven representatives of bodies involved in cultural life;2° Seven representatives of bodies i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the analysis of the group's resolvability

Article L613-43-1

I. - When the consolidated resolution authority of another Member State of the European Union refers a matter to the resolution college in its capacity as resolution authority of a subsidiary in order…

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