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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Common provisions applicable to authorisation and registration schemes

Article R1333-131

…plication for authorisation or registration is co-signed by the coordinating doctor. The Nuclear Safety Authority is informed of any change of coordinating doctor.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Payments.

Article R3332-13

Where a former employee of the company does not have access to a collective retirement savings plan, he may continue to make payments into the collective retirement savings plan of his former company.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General conditions.

Article D6124-138

A neurosurgeon fulfilling the conditions mentioned in 1° of article D. 6124-137 and an anaesthetist-resuscitator are responsible for the continuity of care mentioned in article R. 6123-101 on each sit…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Advisory service

Article L313-13

…udice to the provisions relating to adequate explanations and warnings mentioned in articles L. 313-11 and L. 313-12, the lender or intermediary may provide the borrower with advice on the credit agre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Postal voting.

Article R723-13

…ided for in this article takes the place of the list of voters. At the close of the ballot, the secretary of the committee provided for in Article L. 723-13 shall write "postal vote" opposite the name…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Penalty procedure

Article L327-13

I.-When any interested party, the Minister responsible for culture or the competent authority of another Member State of the European Union refers to it facts likely to constitute a breach of the prov…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Opinion on agreements for the transfer of personnel and property (R)

Article R1425-13

…he matter may be referred to the departmental consultative commission, until the end of the period set out in article R. 1425-3, by the department, a commune, a public establishment for inter-communal…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Mediation.

Article 131-10

…be recalled to a hearing to which the parties are summoned at the registry's behest by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.At this hearing, the judge, if he terminates the mediator's mi…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Interest on arrears, flat-rate compensation and additional compensation for recovery costs

Article L2192-13

…rise, ipso jure and without further formality, to interest on arrears, the rate of which shall be set by regulation.It shall give rise, under the conditions set out in this sub-section, to interest o…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Interest on arrears, flat-rate compensation and additional compensation for recovery costs

Article L3133-13

Late payment shall give rise, under the conditions set out in this sub-section, to interest on arrears, a fixed indemnity and, where applicable, additional compensation paid to the creditor by the con…

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