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Showing 71417150 of 62472 articles for Art. Décret 55-22 du 4-1-1955

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Obligation to report and declare.

Article R1221-49-2

…ssional who observes or is aware of an adverse reaction occurring in a recipient of labile blood products shall report it without delay to the haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent of th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation and resources

Article R1233-25-4

The operation and resources of the committee responsible for health, safety and working conditions are governed by the provisions of Article 81, II of Article 83, Articles 84 and 85, II of Article 87,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions applicable to satellite broadcasting, communication on an ancillary online service and simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article L217-4

…e L. 217-2 apply to the issue and withdrawal of the authorisation provided for in I and to the procedures for designating the organisation responsible for managing the retransmission right in the case…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the insurance obligation.

Article L211-4

…ird country for which the national bureaux of all the Member States of the European Community individually guarantee the settlement of claims occurring in their territory and caused by the use of vehi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Agents

Article L523-4

…ember State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the procedures set out in I of Article L. 522-13 shall apply. II. - When a payment service provider, other th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Powers of the Territorial Council

Article LO6461-4

…in I, II and this III, infringements of the rules governing the assessment and collection of taxes, duties, fees and charges instituted by the territorial council may be combined by the territorial co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Composition

Article R6156-46

Voters for a section of the college of hospital practitioners are those practitioners who practise in the discipline corresponding to the section. For a section of the college of tenured teaching and…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Powers of investigation.

Article L450-4

…the same conditions, place seals on any business premises, documents and information media for the duration of the visit to these premises. Where these premises are located within the jurisdiction of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Transformation and merger.

Article L5211-41

When a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status already exercises, on behalf of the communes that make it up, the competencies set by the present code for another ca…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Hospital cooperatives of doctors

Article L6163-4

…ve hospitalière de médecins: 1° As co-operating members : - self-employed doctors, natural persons, duly registered on the roll of the council of doctors ; - self-employed healthcare professionals who…

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