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Showing 45314540 of 70072 articles for Art. D 141-3 à D 141-5 · Loi 2014-856 du 31 juillet 2014 · Décret 2016-2 du 4 janvier 2016

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D2111-2

Every three years, the Minister for Health consults with representatives of the départements to determine the priorities for action to protect and promote maternal and child health, as referred to in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Emergency medical facilities

Article D6124-2

The number of emergency medical staff is set so that this structure can carry out its missions. The number of staff is adapted to the number of calls made to the SAMU, the number of trips made by the…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The National Advisory Commission on Natural Disasters

Article D125-2-2

…r for Civil Protection, who is responsible for its operating costs. The General Secretariat is provided by the Directorate General for Civil Protection and Crisis Management. In particular, it is resp…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
G : Claim for refund of value added tax borne in another Member State

Article 289 D

Taxable persons established in France may apply for a refund of the value added tax borne in another Member State under the conditions laid down in Council Directive 2008/9/EC of 12 February 2008 layi…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 19: Medical practice

Article D6124-224

I.-The multidisciplinary team of a paediatric medicine unit is trained to meet the psychological developmental needs of children and adolescents. Where appropriate, it sets up therapeutic education pr…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Practice of the profession by students

Article D4141-2

The authorisation is issued by the Conseil Départemental de l'Ordre des chirurgiens-dentistes of the département in which the dental surgeon whom the student is replacing or whose assistant he is is p…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition of the field of fitting professions

Article D4364-2

The profession of ortho-prosthetist is taken to mean any person who makes external orthopaedic fittings to measure with an impression or mould for a sick or disabled person with an amputation of all o…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Territorial psychiatric communities

Article D6136-2

…rs of the territorial psychiatric community are the public hospital service establishments authorised in psychiatry and the armed forces hospitals which are signatories to the same territorial mental…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Fees for procedures

Article A444-5

A fee equal to 22.82 € per half-hour, each additional half-hour being due in full, shall be charged for the services listed under the following numbers in the table mentioned in article A. 444-1:1° Nu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Checking and registering applications.

Article A123-51

The judge responsible for supervising the trade and companies register shall request bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record: 1° Of natural persons subject to registration and natural persons with the p…

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