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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-35

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé will make a decision within two hundred and ten days of the submission of a complete application file. W…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-37

…the authorisation holder must, with regard to the manufacturing and control methods, take account of scientific and technical progress and introduce any changes necessary to ensure that the medicina…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-36

The marketing authorisation is granted by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé. The authorisation includes the national number identifying th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-39

…ationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may require a company to submit samples of each batch of the bulk product and the finished product for its inspection before the batch is pu…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Role of sports federations

Article R231-3

…orts federations mentioned in article L. 231-6 subject their licence holders registered on the list of top level sportsmen and women or recognised in the federal performance project is intended to pre…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Criminal court

Article D45-3

The fixed fine procedure is applicable to offences for which the law so provides, when these offences are recorded by an electronic report drawn up using a secure device allowing the use of a signatur…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Supervision of seafarer recruitment

Article R742-39

…1 to R. 320-5 are deemed to have been completed once the obligations set out in articles 11 to 15-1 of the Maritime Labour Code have been met.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of parental authority by separated parents

Article 373-2-3

Where the nature of the debtor's assets allows, maintenance payments may be replaced, in whole or in part, by the payment of a sum of money to an accredited organisation responsible for granting the c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-55

The provisions of articles 131-23 and 131-24,132-55 of the Penal Code, R. 623-11 to R. 623-23 of the Penitentiary Code and L. 412-8 (5°) of the Social Security Code shall apply to the performance of t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-58

…ut in full, the public prosecutor or the person designated by him or her will record the completion of the penal composition. The public prosecutor will notify the person concerned and, where applicab…

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