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Showing 17211730 of 32485 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 5-12-2001 n° 1726

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules

Article R1132-12

The genetic counsellor provides the persons who consult him with all the information and explanations required in a complete, appropriate, intelligible and fair manner based on precise and validated s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Commission de conciliation et d'indemnisation des accidents médicaux, des affections iatrogènes et des infections nosocomiales.

Article R1142-12

The Commission may, by means of a reasoned report, request the National Commission for Medical Accidents to remove from the national list of medical accident experts an expert registered with a Court…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Biological analyses and screening tests.

Article D1221-12

By way of derogation from the provisions of articles D. 1221-6 to D. 1221-8, an order of the Minister for Health lays down the conditions under which, in order to meet overriding therapeutic needs or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Budgetary and accounting organisation

Article R1222-12

The Etablissement Français du Sang is subject to the provisions of titles I and III of decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management, with the exception of 1° a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Automated national register of refusals to take blood samples

Article R1232-12

The response to the request to query the register is sent by an official of the Agence de la biomédecine expressly authorised for this purpose by the Director General of this establishment.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Application to the armed forces health service

Article R1233-12

For the application of the provisions of this chapter, army hospitals shall be deemed to be public health establishments. For these hospitals, the Minister for Defence exercises the powers of the Dire…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Establishments authorised to collect cells for therapeutic purposes

Article R1242-12

Each year, the establishments authorised to carry out cell harvesting transmit to the director of the regional hospitalisation agency and to the director general of the Agence de la biomédecine the in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions.

Article R1311-12

Persons performing the techniques referred to in articles R. 1311-1 and R. 1311-6 shall inform their customers, before they undergo these techniques, of the risks to which they are exposed and, after…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal penalties

Article R1312-12

Legal entities held criminally liable, under the conditions set out in article 121-2 of the Penal Code, for the offences defined in this chapter shall be liable, in addition to a fine in accordance wi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1321-12

The Prefect may, on his own initiative on a proposal from the Director General of the Regional Health Agency or at the request of the authorisation holder and in accordance with the procedure laid dow…

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