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Showing 381390 of 3730 articles for Art. EU Directive 85/374/EEC

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for investment firms and credit institutions providing investment services authorised in France

Article D532-22

…nt to I ofArticle L. 532-23 under the conditions provided for by the implementing regulation of the European Commission adopted pursuant to Article 35(12) of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parli…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Wholesale distribution

Article R5124-60-1

The pharmaceutical establishment of a company or organisation mentioned in Article R. 5124-2 engaged in wholesale, free transfer or wholesale distribution shall verify that the medicinal products rece…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Approved funds.

Article R214-198

The limit stipulated in article R. 214-85 and the 20% ratio mentioned in article R. 214-86 do not apply to professional undertakings for collective real estate investment.

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 ter B

…ls at least one of the conditions provided for in this 2° in one or more other Member States of the European Union and fulfils its reporting obligations to one of these other Member States pursuant to…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-24

…2-1, the provisions of Articles 1 and 2 of amended Regulation (EEC) No 315/93 of the Council of the European Communities of 8 February 1993 laying down Community procedures for contaminants in foodstu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Expressing the wishes of patients refusing treatment and patients at the end of life

Article L1111-11

Any person of legal age may draw up advance directives in the event of one day being unable to express his or her wishes. These advance directives express the person's wishes regarding the end of thei…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Expression of wishes relating to the end of life

Article R1111-19

I.- Advance directives are kept in a way that makes them easily accessible to the doctor called upon to make a decision to limit or stop treatment as part of the collegiate procedure defined in articl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-4-1-1

…nagement company may undertake pre-marketing activities in France or in another Member State of the European Union except where the information presented to potential professional clients is : a) Suff…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Expression of wishes relating to the end of life

Article R1111-17

The advance directives referred to in article L. 1111-11 are a written document, dated and signed by the author, who is an adult, duly identified by giving his or her surname, first name, date and pla…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Manufacture and import of investigational medicinal products.

Article R5124-57-3

Where batches of investigational medicinal products come from another Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and are manufactured or imported in…

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