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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Authorised bodies

Article R5211-56

…director and the personnel responsible for carrying out the assessment and verification operations may not be the designer, manufacturer, supplier, installer or user of the devices they inspect, nor…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Formulation of technical specifications

Article R2311-5

…on civil technical specifications; 4° National civil standards transposing international standards; 5° Other international civil standards; 6° Other technical reference systems drawn up by European st…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Offences committed by a person other than the employer or his representative.

Article R4741-5

…opinions during meetings of the college or sanctioning or dismissing them, in breach of article L. 4532-11 ; 2° Failure to mention in subcontracting contracts the obligation to participate in an inter…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: General principles

Article A823-5

…ry auditors, the elements relating to the planning of the audit are defined in a concerted manner. 05. Where the statutory auditor is required to certify both the annual accounts and the consolidated…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Allocation

Article L2313-5

Defence or security contracts may be awarded in separate lots. The purchaser determines the number, size and subject of the lots.It may limit the number of lots for which a single economic operator ma…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medical transport.

Article L6312-5

…th agency and with regard to the call reception and regulation centres mentioned in article L. 6112-5;the conditions under which the regional health agency organises the departmental on-call service e…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedure for calculating the amount of the advance

Article R2391-5

The purchaser may increase the amount of the advance payment above 30% of the amount calculated in accordance with the provisions of article R. 2391-4. In this case, it may make payment conditional up…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for selecting health care organisations

Article R6113-57

…ospitalisation will analyse the sample of establishments selected in application of article R. 6113-56, in order to verify that it is representative in terms of: 1° The distribution of health care est…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Other contracts

Article L2512-5

…ternative dispute resolution methods; 4° Services relating to passenger transport by rail or metro; 5° Financial services relating to the issue, purchase, sale or transfer of securities or other finan…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Intervention procedures

Article L1523-5

Local authorities and their groupings may grant semi-public companies engaged in the construction or management of housing subsidies or advances intended for housing programmes, and their annexes, the…

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