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Showing 35613570 of 9933 articles for Art. EU Mutual Assistance Directive 2010/24/EU

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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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions specific to certain institutions and organisations.

Article L6147-1

The conditions of application of Chapter II of Title I and those of this Title to the Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris, the Hospices civils de Lyon, the Assistance publique de Marseille and natio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article D47-12-10

Persons with the status of judicial police officer specially appointed to assist, pursuant to Article 706-106-5, public prosecutors and specialised investigating judges from the Nanterre judicial cour…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L2334-1

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L775-15

…graph of Article L. 721-24"; 2° In Articles L. 521-6 and L. 521-7: a) The references to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council are replaced by references toArticle 126…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recruitment.

Article R6152-410

…0 April 1972 relating to the status of resident pharmacists of the general administration of public assistance in Paris, the administration of Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Marseille and the hospice…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I-1: Research involving the human person

Article L1541-4

…cle L. 1121-1, after the words: "This person or his legal representative must be established in the European Union", the following words are added: ", or in the Wallis and Futuna Islands or in New Cal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Statutory Auditors.

Article L820-1

…akings referred to in Articles L. 310-1 and L. 310-1-1 of the Insurance Code, with the exception of mutual insurance companies exempt from administrative authorisation pursuant to Article R. 322-117-1…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 152

The magistrates or judicial police officers assigned to carry out the investigation exercise, within the limits of the letter rogatory, all the powers of the investigating judge. However, the judicial…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-10

…egislation or practices impede the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing or by the European Commission pursuant to Article 9 of Directive (EU) 2015/849 of 20 May 2015 on the preventio…

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