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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Investor information

Article L214-23-1

The Autorité des marchés financiers defines the conditions under which UCITS must inform their subscribers and may be advertised, in particular by audiovisual means, or canvassed.The articles of assoc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L5125-23-2

By way of derogation from I of article L. 5125-23, the pharmacist may dispense, by way of substitution for the biological medicinal product prescribed, a similar biological medicinal product where the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L5125-23-3

By way of derogation from I of Article L. 5125-23, the pharmacist may dispense a comparable product by way of substitution for the product prescribed if the following conditions are met: 1° This produ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L5125-23-1

In the context of chronic treatment, in exceptional circumstances and subject to informing the prescribing doctor, when the period of validity of a renewable prescription has expired and in order to a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Financial provisions.

Article L5214-23

…munauté de communes include:1° The tax resources mentioned in II or, where applicable, I of Article 1379-0 bis of the General Tax Code, as well as those mentioned in V of the same article.The communau…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20

Unless otherwise stipulated:1° The authorisation to telecast a work does not include the retransmission of that telecast, however the provider of the retransmission service obtains that work and whate…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Data processing by the Commission for access to third-party donor data by persons born of medically assisted procreation

Article R2143-20

…y donor shall receive, when their application is submitted, the information provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, as well as information on the limitations of their…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Transmission of information

Article L561-30-2

…of a report made in accordance with Article L. 561-15, the department referred to in Article L. 561-23 refers the matter to the Public Prosecutor, it shall inform the person referred to in Article L.…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Provisions applicable to hunting accidents.

Article R421-23

Anyone responsible for an accident resulting in personal injury sustained while hunting or destroying vermin must produce their licence, if applicable, and inform the law enforcement officer who draws…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Implementation of the apprenticeship programme

Article R1161-23

The company informs doctors of the existence of learning programmes. The doctor prescribing the treatment may suggest that his patients who could benefit from this programme take part in it. If the pa…

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