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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Working conditions of the pharmacists or veterinary surgeons responsible and delegated.

Article R5142-17-1

…practical experience acquired under the conditions mentioned in article R. 5142-16. This experience may have been acquired in whole or in part in an establishment operating medicinal products for huma…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Withholding

Article L521-17-2

…ication referred to in Article L. 521-14 has been accepted, goods transported in small consignments may be destroyed under the supervision of customs officers where the applicant has, in his applicati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-17-1

…negligible interest in relation to the objective defined in Article L. 233-21 . 233-21 or that they may be excluded from consolidation pursuant to article L. 233-19.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-17-1

…when exercising his jurisdiction pursuant to this section, the Counter-Terrorism Public Prosecutor may, by judicial delegation, request any public prosecutor to carry out or have carried out the acts…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Household and other waste

Article L2224-17-1

The public waste prevention and management service is subject to cost accounting.The mayor or the president of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation presents, respectively, to the mu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 10: Special provisions for forestry investment groups

Article R214-176-7

…arate management units at least twenty kilometres apart. The share of one of these management units may not exceed 60% of the total surface area of the group's forest holdings. If these conditions are…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Monitoring of post-authorisation safety studies

Article R5121-178-1

…3. The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may require the holder of the authorisation provided for in Article L. 5121-8 to submit to him, and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3a: Investigation assistants

Article R15-17-2

The duties of investigation assistant may be performed by the staff mentioned in article 21-3 who have passed an examination certifying their suitability to carry out the duties provided for in that s…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Withholding

Article L521-17-1

…ferred to in article L. 521-14 has been accepted, goods suspected of infringing a registered design may be destroyed under the supervision of customs officers if the following conditions are met: 1° T…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relationship between the respective payment service providers and the payment service user

Article L133-17-1

An account-holding payment service provider may refuse a payment service provider providing an account information or payment initiation service access to a payment account for objectively justified a…

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