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Showing 26112620 of 21304 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 24 Nov. 1998 – Chevassus-Marche

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Import and export

Article R5121-119

The package leaflet of the proprietary medicinal product benefiting from a parallel import authorisation is identical to that of the proprietary medicinal product which has obtained marketing authoris…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Import and export

Article R5121-115

The importation of a proprietary medicinal product constitutes a parallel import with a view to placing it on the market in France: 1° Which comes from another Member State of the European Community o…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: Prior publicity

Article L2131-1

In order to encourage the widest possible competition, purchasers shall advertise prior to the award of the contract in accordance with the conditions and subject to the exceptions defined by decree i…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: General rules applicable to the public contracts mentioned in Title I, with the exception of those relating to the public rail passenger transport service

Article L2521-6

Section 3 of Chapter VI of Title IX of Book III of this Part relating to the control of the cost of contracts awarded by the State and its public establishments is applicable to the public defence or…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 4: Conditions relating to technical and professional capacities

Article R2142-14

The purchaser may require economic operators to have a sufficient level of experience, demonstrated by appropriate references from contracts previously performed. However, the absence of references re…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Groups of economic operators

Article R2142-20

A consortium is:1° Joint when each of the economic operators in the consortium undertakes to perform the service(s) likely to be awarded to it under the contract;2° Joint and several when each of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-26

No person other than these employees or servants may, within the precincts of the markets, halls and ports, exercise the profession of weigher, measurer and gauge, on pain of confiscation of the instr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Responsibility of the competent authorities

Article L532-44

Where the AMF is the competent authority of the home Member State of an AIFM established in a third country and considers that the AIFM is not complying with the rules falling within its remit, it sha…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: First demand guarantee and personal and joint surety

Article R2191-36

The holder of the contract may, throughout the term of the contract, substitute for the retention of guarantee a first demand guarantee or, if the purchaser does not object, a personal and joint guara…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Prior information notice

Article R2331-1

Purchasers may make known their intention to award a defence or security contract through the publication of a prior information notice.This notice shall be drawn up in accordance with the model set o…

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