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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Final provisions.

Article R5221-29

…r Health, issued on a proposal from the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, specifies the conditions for applying the procedures defined in Art…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Policyholder and beneficiary information and pricing

Article A132-5-2

I.-For commitments covered by 1° of Article L. 134-1, I of Article A. 132-4-1 applies as follows:1° Where the technical rate used is not zero, the literary explanation referred to in 2° of I of articl…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Elements of private project management for infrastructure works

Article R2431-24

In the case of a new building project, preliminary studies are the first stage in the project manager's response to the objectives, needs, constraints and requirements of the programme.These studies e…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Packaging units for rolling tobacco

Article R3512-24

…t of rolling tobacco may be: 1° Parallelepiped with characteristics that may be specified by order; 2° Cylindrical; 3° A pouch. II-The packaging unit complies with the size characteristics of the heal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 5: Changes to the initial conditions governing the composition and operation of the communauté de communes

Article L5842-24

I. - The articles L. 5214-26 to L. 5214-29 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - For the application of'article L. 5214-28 :1° The sentence: " b) Or wh…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: EC declaration of conformity, production quality assurance.

Article R5221-28

…ocedure, production quality assurance, the manufacturer must submit to an authorized body for verification the manufacturing quality system which he has set up to ensure conformity of the in vitro dia…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R225-29

The Board of Directors may confer on one or more of its members or on third parties, whether shareholders or not, any special mandates for one or more specific purposes. It may decide to set up commit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Effects of seizure

Article R3252-29

The seizure is released either as a result of an agreement between the creditors or as a result of a court ruling that the debt has been extinguished. The employer is notified within eight days.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-4

…aised the nationality objection before a court which has stayed the proceedings pursuant to Article 29. The third party making the request must be implicated.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Compensation for victims of benfluorex

Article L1142-24-2

…rs themselves to be the victim of a functional impairment attributable to benfluorex or, where applicable, their legal representative in the case of a minor or their beneficiaries may refer the matter…

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