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Showing 25512560 of 36396 articles for Art. Décret n° 2015-1437 du 5 novembre 2015

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Status of the armed forces blood transfusion centre

Article R1222-59

…provide all necessary explanations. III -In the event of an emergency involving the safety of individuals, the Director of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (Fren…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership

Article L22-10-58

…chase shares may only be granted to the persons referred to in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 225-185 unless the company meets at least one of the following conditions in respect of the financial…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I

Article L4021-5

…oned in articles L. 6331-1 and L. 6332-9 of the Labour Code and in II of article 16 of order no. 2005-406 of 2 May 2005 simplifying the legal regime of health establishments. The monitoring of complia…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Pharmacy inspection.

Article L5127-5

The inspectors referred to in article L. 5127-1 may not engage in any other professional activity, unless it is carried out exclusively in a health establishment. However, they may belong to the teach…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L6161-5

…managed by the legal entities under private law mentioned in 1° of II of Article 1 of Law No. 2014-856 of 31 July 2014 on the social and solidarity economy meeting the conditions and having obtained t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Organisation and operation

Article R1431-5

…hall be appointed or elected under the same conditions for the remainder of the term of office. The duties of a member of the Board of Directors are performed free of charge. However, they give entitl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Judicial liquidation and professional recovery.

Article R645-5

I.-The court clerk shall attach to the copy of the judgment referred to in Article R. 645-4 a document reproducing the terms of II of this article, as well as: 1° Those of articles L. 645-4, L. 812-2,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Transit

Article 695-51

The provisions of the Articles 695-47 to 695-50 shall apply to requests for transit submitted by a Member State of the European Union or by a State linked to the European Union by an agreement mention…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to carry out doorstep selling

Article L341-5

…ity is carried out, in particular the existence of a single mandate or several mandates, and the products and services being canvassed.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Financial provisions

Article L4425-5

Within a period of ten weeks prior to the examination of the budget, the President of the Executive Council presents a report to the Assembly of Corsica on the budgetary guidelines for the financial y…

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