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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General organisation.

Article L6141-7-3

Public health establishments may set up one or more hospital foundations, with legal personality, resulting from the irrevocable allocation to the establishment concerned of assets, rights or resource…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: The audit incident.

Article 295

…all be sentenced to a civil fine of a maximum of 10,000 euros without prejudice to any damages that may be claimed.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: The audit incident.

Article 292

If a technician is called in, he or she may be authorised by the judge to collect the contested document and the comparison documents against a signature or to have them sent to him or her by the cour…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Simple livestock.

Article 1807

He is liable for fortuitous event only when it was preceded by some fault on his part, without which the loss would not have occurred.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Rights of the holder of the pharmaceutical dossier

Article R1111-20-7

…his legal representative under the conditions provided for in articles L. 1111-5, L. 1111-5-1, L. 2212-7 and L. 6211-3-1, the healthcare professional shall provide him with the information provided f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5462-7-1

…of €150,000: 1° Continuing, with regard to the devices mentioned in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 the activities that have been the subject of one of the measures provided for in paragraph 4 o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Sound and image recording of certain places or vehicles

Article 706-96-1

During the investigation, in order to set up the technical device mentioned in article 706-96, the liberty and custody judge may authorise entry into a vehicle or private place, including outside the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Agreements

Article R5132-29

The agreement to set up one or more integration sites may be concluded for a maximum of three years with organisations that have prospects of economic viability; it may be renewed under the same proce…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Revision of the jury list

Article 290

…sions are set out in a reasoned judgment, after the public prosecutor has been heard. This judgment may only be challenged by way of an appeal in cassation at the same time as the judgment on the meri…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation

Article R612-7-2

I. - Pursuant to IV of Article L. 612-8-1, the resolution board may, when initiating resolution proceedings, delegate to its chairman the power to take individual decisions in connection with such pro…

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