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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to insurance undertakings.

Article R332-6

…a contract by an undertaking carrying on the operations referred to in 2° or 3° of Article L. 310-1 may be represented, up to 25% of its amount, by the acquisition costs deferred in respect of this co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-6

Clinical investigations in the field of dentistry may only be carried out under the direction and supervision of a dental surgeon or a doctor with appropriate experience. Clinical investigations in th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Rules of conduct

Article L521-6

…e information provided by the distributor to the subscriber pursuant to Articles L. 521-2 to L. 521-4 and L. 522-1 to L. 522-6 shall be provided on paper. This information may also be provided on a du…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Single chapter

Article L641-6

For the application of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R4021-6

The National Agency for Continuing Professional Development (ANDPC) referred to in Article L. 4021-6 is set up by means of an agreement between the State and the National Union of Health Insurance Fun…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Professional acts.

Article R4342-6

…contact corneal pachymetry ; 2° Recording eye movements ; 3° Ocular optical coherence tomography ; 4° Corneal topography; 5° Non-contact preoperative ocular biometry; 6° Non-contact specular examinat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Scope and definitions

Article R4412-60

…ch are carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 ; 2° Any substance, mixture or process defined as such by joint order of the ministers for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Application to the armed forces health service

Article R6113-11-4

The provisions of articles R. 6113-2, R. 6113-4 and R. 6113-7 are applicable to army hospitals. For the application of the provisions of articles R. 6113-1, R. 6113-9-1 and R. 6113-11, army hospitals…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Information and documents to be submitted with the tender

Article R2351-14

…fidentiality of all protected or classified information and media in its possession, or of which it may become aware throughout the performance of the contract and after termination or expiry of the c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Accounting

Article D5217-25

The appropriations allocated to expenditure for each financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the fi…

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