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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Experimentation

Article R5121-15

The sponsor provides clinical trial investigators with : 1° The title and objective of the trial requested; 2° The pharmaceutical form, batch number(s) and expiry date of the investigational medicinal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2

The enforcement of sentences office provided for by article 709-1 is run by one or more registrars or agents of the registry of the judicial court or the court of appeal. When the sentence is handed d…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Nature of the continuous assessment of knowledge leading to the brevet d'Etat d'éducateur sportif à trois degrés (three-degree state diploma for sports instructors) during training under the responsibility of the Minister for Sport

Article A212-131

…e brevet d'Etat d'éducateur sportif du premier degré: - either during a training period of at least 160 hours spread over a maximum period of twelve weeks; - or during a training period of at least 20…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Savings bank network

Article L773-8

…ight-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 512-85 law no. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 L. 512-86 and L. 512-86-1 law no. 2009-715 of 18 June 2009 L. 512-87 t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Savings bank network

Article L774-8

…ight-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 512-85 law no. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 L. 512-86 and L. 512-86-1 law no. 2009-715 of 18 June 2009 L. 512-87 t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Water and sanitation.

Article D2573-22

I. - The first paragraphs of articles R. 2224-11 and R. 2224-15, articles R. 2224-19 to R. 2224-19-4 and R. 2224-19-6 to R. 2224-19-10 and articles R. 2224-20 and R. 2224-21 are applicable to the comm…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-3

…unless the offence is punishable by the additional penalties referred to in 1° to 5° of Article 131-16 of the Penal Code. The application for validation is brought before the competent judge of the po…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 59 quinquies

…on of those which they have collected or exchanged pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81 and 82 o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: General-purpose professional funds

Article L214-144

…al-purpose professional fund are reserved for professional clients as referred to in article L. 533-16 and for foreign investors belonging to an equivalent category under the law of the country to whi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Public Health Agency

Article L1413-12

…rvices mentioned in article L. 1413-4;4° The repayments and reimbursements referred to inarticle L. 162-1-16 of the Social Security Code; 5° By taxes provided for its benefit;6° Fees for services rend…

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