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Showing 441450 of 46373 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 4 May 2010 – no. 09-13205

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Preparations containing several poisonous substances.

Article R5132-41

The provisions of article R. 5132-40 are applicable to the salts and esters of these substances as well as to compositions containing these substances, their salts or their esters in any form whatsoev…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Preparations containing several poisonous substances.

Article R5132-40

The prescription in the form of a magistral preparation and the incorporation in the same preparation of poisonous substances appearing on the classification list in Annex 51-1 and belonging to differ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Former status of contractual practitioners

Article R6152-400

…on remain applicable only to contractual practitioners in post on the date of publication of Decree no. 2022-135 of 5 February 2022 relating to the new rules applicable to contractual practitioners.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article 485

The judge who terminates the mandate may open a legal protection measure under the conditions and in accordance with the procedures laid down in sections 1 to 4 of this chapter. Where the implementati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Involuntary hospitalisation

Article D47-29-4

…r issued by the State representative. It immediately produces the effects referred to in article D. 47-29-3 of this code.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Title XV: The tax, customs and foreign exchange litigation committee.

Article 460

…Chairman and members of the Committee and their alternates are appointed by decree for three years.4. In the event of a tie, the Chairman shall have the casting vote.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-12

In order to organise its purchasing, the national council of the order may pool its requirements with other national councils: 1° Either in the form of central purchasing bodies, under the conditions…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-13

Contracts may be awarded in separate lots, unless their subject does not allow separate services to be identified. The National Council determines the number, size and purpose of the lots. It may limi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 46

…shall be received both by titles and by witnesses; and, in such cases, marriages, births and deaths may be proved both by the registers and papers emanating from deceased fathers and mothers, and by w…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: OVERSEAS REGIONS

Article L4437-4

The planning and sustainable development plan, drawn up on the basis of articles LO 6161-42 and LO 6161-43 in their wording in force before the publication of the loi organique n° 2010-1486 du 7 décem…

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