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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee

Article R1413-24

The Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee elects its Chairman from among its members. It defines its operating procedures in accordance with the school's internal regulations and the resources all…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Conduct of the treatment order.

Article R3711-24

As stated in article R. 61-5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, when the socio-judicial supervision accompanies a custodial sentence, the period during which the convicted person is on temporary leave…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-24

…ng access to the capital shall be determined in accordance with the conditions set out in article 1843-4 of the Civil Code. The transferor may at any time waive the transfer of his equity securities o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Possibility of an agreement and specific terms and conditions resulting therefrom.

Article L1233-24

Any action to challenge all or part of an agreement provided for in article L. 1233-21 must be brought, on pain of inadmissibility, before the expiry of a period of three months from the date of filin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Involuntary hospitalisation

Article D47-29-2

To allow the immediate application of the order provided for by articles D. 47-29 and D. 47-29-1, the public prosecutor shall inform the State representative or, in Paris, the police prefect in advanc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of jurisdiction between Member States of the European Union

Article D47-1-29

If, in the course of the direct consultations undertaken, a consensus has been reached on the continuation of the criminal proceedings in only one Member State, the competent authority of that Member…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: The Examining Magistrate and the Investigating Divisions

Article D15-4-7

…supervision or for release that this lawyer may lodge in accordance with the provisions of Article 148-6 may be made at the registry of the examining magistrate of the court without a division. On pai…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-21

The person responsible for the bathing water prepares, for public distribution, a summary document corresponding to the general description of the bathing water based on the bathing water profile. The…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Transmission

Article L131-21

Unless otherwise agreed, the endorser guarantees payment. The endorser may prohibit further endorsement; in this case, the endorser is not liable to any person to whom the cheque is subsequently endor…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 212-8

The amount of the direct grant is set at €10,000 per project.If there is more than one author for the same project, this amount is divided between the authors on the basis of the agreements between th…

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