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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-12-3

If an appeal has been lodged on the basis of article L. 3211-12-1, the liberty and custody judge hearing the case may make the same decision in accordance with the procedure laid down in the same arti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4b: Compensation for victims of sodium valproate or its derivatives

Article L1142-24-12

If it finds that one or more of the injuries referred to in Article L. 1142-24-10 are attributable to the prescription, before 31 December 2015, of sodium valproate or one of its derivatives during pr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-16-1

Unitary effect may be conferred on a European patent under the conditions laid down in the first paragraph of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of 17 December 2012. The European patent with un…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Establishments, services or organisations without an in-house pharmacy

Article R5126-108

…for a specific person, the establishments, services or organisations mentioned in I of article L. 5126-10 may hold certain medicines, products or objects mentioned in article L. 4211-1 and sterile me…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Renewal.

Article L145-10

…letter with acknowledgement of receipt . Unless otherwise stipulated or notified by the latter, it may, as well as to himself, be validly addressed to him in the person of the manager, who is deemed…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 5: Accounting provisions

Article L214-109

…uring the financial year, and if necessary, the Supervisory Board provided for in article L. 214-99 may authorise the modification of these values, on the basis of a reasoned report from the managemen…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to ski lifts and conveyors.

Article R342-10

…during the operation of a ski lift or conveyor belt are investigated in accordance with articles R. 1621-1 to R. 1621-26 of the French Transport Code. Any serious accident is immediately brought to th…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to subsequent contracts

Article R2162-10

…ders, on the basis of the award criteria set out in the framework agreement.The framework agreement may provide that the award of certain subsequent contracts will not give rise to a reopening of comp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French authorities of a European protection order

Article 696-100

Recognition of the European protection order shall be refused in the following cases: 1° The European protection order is incomplete or has not been completed within the time limit set by the competen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions of access and practice

Article R519-10

I. - The banking and payment services intermediaries referred to in 2° and 3° of the I of article R. 519-4 and their agents referred to in 4° of the same I, carrying out an intermediation activity in…

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