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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Professional inadequacy.

Article R6152-532

…ring this suspension, the person concerned retains all the emoluments mentioned in 1° of article R. 6152-514.In the absence of an opinion from the hospital medical committee within two months of its b…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Decisions that may be challenged and conditions of appeal

Article 570

…r of the investigating judge pursuant to the articles 81, ninth paragraph, 82-1, second paragraph, 156, second paragraph, or 167, penultimate paragraph, or because of the investigating judge's failure…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Economic regime

Article 570

…ject to the following obligations:1° Deliver tobacco only to the tobacconists designated in article 568;2° Retain ownership of the tobacco from the time it enters or is manufactured in France until it…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Claims in contentious matters.

Article 56

…nullity, in addition to the particulars prescribed for bailiff's writs and those set out in Article 54 :

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to customs offices and brigades.

Article 52

…rs must be temporarily allocated to the service of the offices and the accommodation of the agents. 3. The municipal and departmental administrations must take the necessary measures without delay to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Economic regime

Article 565

…activity under the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. The provisions of articles 570 and 571 apply to such a person as a supplier. Retail sales of manufactured tobacco are reserved…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-5

The duration of the period of Ineligibility referred to in 2° of I of article L. 232-23 for a breach of article L. 232-9-3 is two years. This period may be reduced by up to half, depending on the degr…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Delegation, total and partial withdrawal of parental authority, judicial declaration of parental abandonment

Article 1208-3

The decisions of the judge or court are notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, within eight days, to the applicant, the parents, guardian, person or service to whom the child h…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-17

…and informed consent, obtained in writing under the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 of Article 63 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017, after…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 12: Final provisions.

Article R5211-53

…des produits de santé, specifies the conditions for applying the procedures defined in Articles R. 5211-37 to R. 5211-52.

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