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Showing 55315540 of 23676 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 1re 20 septembre 2012 n° 11-13144

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Technical capacity of points of entry into France

Article D3115-18

…f persons. These premises are made available to the medical service provided for in article D. 3115-20 and have specific routes for transferring sick travellers to a suitable care facility. In ports,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IVa - Brokerage of medicinal products

Article R5124-74

The declaration provided for in Article L. 5124-20 shall be sent to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé by the person carrying out the brokering activity or by the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Creation, transfer or regrouping

Article R5125-5

…implicit. In the meantime, the benefit of the rules of anteriority provided for in article L. 5125-20, attached to the initial application, is retained. For the purposes of grandfathering, the confir…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Conformity and safety of products and services

Article R521-3

…rticles L. 521-4, L. 521-5, L. 521-7, L. 521-10, L. 521-12, L. 521-13, L. 521-14, L. 521-16, L. 521-20 and L. 521-23 is the Prefect or, in Paris, the Prefect of Police.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: General provisions

Article L412-1

I.-The information document to be drawn up pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 2017/1129 of 14 June 2017 in the event of a public offer of financial securities or the admission of financial securities to t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R222-12

The sports agents' commission may, at the request of the licence holder, suspend a sports agent's licence. The regulations governing sports agents specify the procedures for requesting suspension and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles relating to research involving the human person

Article L1121-16

With a view to the application of the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 1121-11 and article L. 1121-12 and for the research mentioned in 1° of article L. 1121-1 concerning the products m…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VII: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article 693

…rovisions of Articles 8, 10, 11 and paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 of Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2020/1784 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2020 must also be observed, o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2-1: Establishing the biological profile of athletes falling within the scope of Article L. 230-3

Article R232-67-10

The athlete passport management unit carries out an initial review of all profiles.In the light of the successive data integrated into the predictive statistics algorithm concerning an athlete, the he…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Criminal provisions

Article R331-17-2

Organising a sporting event without the declaration required under article R. 331-6 is punishable by the penalties laid down for fifth-class offences. It is an offence punishable by the penalties laid…

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