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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2422

Mortgage creditors cannot usefully take out a registration on the previous owner, from the publication of the transfer made to a third party. Registration has no effect between the creditors of an est…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-17-1

An on-call system is organised to meet urgent requirements for medicinal products outside the opening days generally used by wholesaler-distributors in their territory of distribution. All the wholesa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products

Article L5541-1

…hird paragraph of I of Article L. 5134-1, the words: "by decree" are replaced by the words: "by the regulations in force locally" and the words: ", in particular by referring the pupil to a family pla…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of hospitals and universities.

Article L6142-10

When the association of one or more medical, pharmaceutical or odontological structures of public health establishments or another public body with the missions of a university hospital centre defined…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L6161-3

…e purposes of their audit. They are forwarded to the regional health agency under conditions set by regulation. All other accounting documents required for the audit are made available to the pricing…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medical biology laboratory

Article L6212-2

…hological cytology or, for certain phases, under his responsibility, under conditions determined by regulation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Organisation and operation

Article R1123-18

…responsibilities or their volume of activity within the Committee, experts, specialists and rapporteurs receive an allowance, the amount and conditions of which are set by order of the Ministers for…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Registration upon declaration

Article R123-96

Where the regulations specific to the activity carried out provide that the declaration or application for authorisation is made after registration in the register, the supporting document is provided…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction.

Article R321-18-1

…notaries must first have completed, at their own expense, a sixty-hour training course covering the regulations, practice and ethics of auction sales. This training is organised by the Conseil des mai…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: UCITS.

Article R214-4

A general meeting of shareholders of an open-ended investment company (société d'investissement à capital variable) is convened and the shareholders are informed of the proposed merger or demerger in…

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