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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Billing for services

Article D7233-1

When they provide personal services to natural persons, legal persons and sole traders produce an invoice showing : 1° The name and address of the legal entity or sole trader ; 2° The number and date…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Other narcotic substances and preparations

Article R5132-78

Apart from cases of transit or crossing customs territory, it is prohibited to import or export narcotics without a special authorisation issued for each operation by the Director General of the Agenc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Other narcotic substances and preparations

Article R5132-79

Containers or packaging containing narcotics and used for their import or export, transport or possession must bear a label of a size appropriate to their volume, affixed in such a way that it cannot…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Psychotropic substances and preparations

Article R5132-92

Apart from cases of transit through or through customs territory, it is prohibited to import or export psychotropic drugs without a special authorisation issued for each operation by the Director Gene…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Registration of homeopathic medicines.

Article R5141-63

The application for registration of a homeopathic veterinary medicinal product or a series of medicinal products mentioned in article L. 5141-9 is sent to the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-130

I.-The qualified person shall send the application for authorisation provided for in Article L. 5141-12 to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'en…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Special rules for monitoring certain medical devices

Article R5212-42

At the end of the care or cosmetic surgery procedures using a medical device on the list provided for in article R. 5212-36, the patient is given a document stating:-the identification of the medical…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Resale of second-hand in vitro diagnostic medical devices

Article R5222-18-4

The certificate is accompanied by a file containing the following information: 1° The results of the quality controls mentioned in articles L. 6221-9 and L. 6221-10, carried out during the previous fi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6133-7

I. - After it has been set up, a Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire may admit new members by decision of the General Meeting. This decision is required in respect of any new health care organisation…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Scope of the agreement.

Article R6142-36

In all cases where the assignment relates to university activity, the State continues to pay the remuneration of the person concerned, subject to reimbursement of all or part of this expenditure by th…

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