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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Conditions specific to the modality: "external radiotherapy, brachytherapy".

Article D6124-133-14

The authorisation holder has an organisation that enables it to secure the information systems used to carry out radiotherapy treatment and to preserve all the data collected on the site.

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 61

The judicial police officer may forbid any person to leave the scene of the offence until the end of his operations. He may call and hear all persons likely to provide information on the facts or on t…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deeds concerning the transfer of assets by succession or gift

Article A444-68

Shared donations (numbers 20 and 21 of table 5) give rise to the collection of a fee proportional:

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Collation of trade union election results

Article D2122-6

The system for centralising the results of the professional elections referred to in articles L. 2122-5 to L. 2122-10 in order to measure the audience of the trade union organisations must: a) Guarant…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Place of service.

Article 691

…prosecutor and those that must be made to the public prosecutor's office shall be made, as the case may be, to the public prosecutor's office of the court before which the claim is brought, to that of…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IV: Rules specific to the notification of judgments.

Article 680

…the event that one of these means of appeal is open, as well as the procedures by which the appeal may be exercised; it must also indicate that the author of an abusive or dilatory appeal may be orde…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Recognition, review and withdrawal of regulated market status.

Article D421-6

The AMF draws up and maintains a list of French regulated markets. It shall communicate this list to the other Member States of the European Union and to the other States party to the Agreement on the…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3b: Hybrid specialities

Article R5121-9-6

…lfil the conditions for being a reference proprietary medicinal product in an existing hybrid group may, by decision of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des pr…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Appearance on preliminary recognition of guilt

Article 495-13

…hall rule on this claim, even if the civil party did not appear at the hearing, pursuant to article 420-1. The civil party may appeal against the order in accordance with the provisions of articles 49…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1144-4

The divorce agreement that fixes alimony or compensatory allowance in the form of a life annuity sets out the collection procedures and the rules for revising the claim, as well as the criminal penalt…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
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