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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Scientific Council and expert committees

Article R1313-24

…lete the term of office of the member being replaced. Subject to the provisions of article R. 1313-27, the duties of a member of the Scientific Advisory Board are performed free of charge.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules of jurisdiction and procedure

Article L615-21

If one of the parties so requests, any dispute relating to the application of Articles L. 611-7 and L. 611-7-1 shall be submitted to a joint conciliation commission, chaired by a magistrate of the jud…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: National gendarmerie units

Article R15-24

…judiciaires de la gendarmerie nationale ;3° The motorised brigades of the departmental gendarmerie;4° The surveillance and intervention platoons of the departmental gendarmerie;5° The platoons and br…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article L533-29-2

…er body exercising equivalent supervisory functions and the persons referred to in Article L. 532-2(4) must devote sufficient time to carrying out the duties referred to in Article L. 533-29-1 and mus…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 17: Conditions for authorisation of individually prepared advanced therapy medicinal products

Article R5121-212

…t du travail under the conditions provided for in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of Article R. 533-29 of the Environment Code.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal dissemination of inventions

Article L612-21

…in this case of the patent to which the certificate relates ; 3° Of any subsequent procedural act; 4° Of any grant of one of these titles; 5° Of the acts mentioned in Article L. 613-9; 6° From the da…

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

Article L1233-24-2

The collective agreement referred to in article L. 1233-24-1 concerns the content of the job protection plan referred to in articles L. 1233-61 to L. 1233-63. It may also cover : 1° The procedures for…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 6: Suspension of the procedure for examining applications for business authorisations provided for in article L. 752-1-2

Article R752-29-8

Three months before the end of the suspension period, the secretariat of the departmental committee asks the petitioner to send it, within two months, an update of the information contained in the app…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 6: Suspension of the procedure for examining applications for business authorisations provided for in article L. 752-1-2

Article R752-29-3

…bmitted to the departmental commission for a project mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 752-1-2, the president of the local authority of the municipality in which the project is located an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 6: Suspension of the procedure for examining applications for business authorisations provided for in article L. 752-1-2

Article R752-29-5

The suspension order provided for in articles R. 752-29-2 and R. 752-29-3 exposes: 1° The objectives pursued by the territorial revitalisation operation agreement that the project is likely to comprom…

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