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

Article R5121-50

…nd Health Products) makes public, in particular via the Agency's website: 1° The decisions to grant marketing authorisation for medicinal products or products which he has issued, accompanied by the c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Import and export

Article R5121-108

Any medicinal product which does not have a marketing authorisation as referred to in Article L. 5121-8 or an early access authorisation as referred to in Article L. 5121-12 or a compassionate access…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Declarations.

Article R5211-65

…on the European Economic Area, places class I medical devices or custom-made medical devices on the market in its own name, shall make a declaration to the Director General of the Agence nationale de…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-7

The president of the court shall rule, if necessary, on the grounds of nullity of the sale procedure prior to the auction, and on the costs. These pleas must be opposed, on pain of forfeiture, at leas…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: General provisions

Article LO1112-7

…ot and if it obtains a majority of the votes cast. The text adopted by referendum is subject to the rules of publicity and control applicable to a deliberation of the deliberative assembly of the loca…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section II: Invalidity of acts for substantive irregularity.

Article 118

Pleas of nullity based on failure to comply with the substantive rules relating to pleadings may be raised in any event, unless otherwise provided and except for the possibility that the judge may ord…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Claims in contentious matters.

Article 58

Where this option is open to them under Article 12, the parties may, if they have not already done so since the dispute arose, give the judge, in the joint application, the task of ruling as amiable c…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-8

Applications made pursuant to Articles 11 and 13 of Regulation (EU) No 606/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on the mutual recognition of protection measures in civil…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Adoption of the child of the other member of the couple

Article 370

…e exception of the provisions of articles 351, 352, 352-1, 352-2 and 353 and subject to the special rules of this chapter, the provisions of chapters I to III of this title apply to the adoption of th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Decisions of the family council or the judge

Article 502

The family council or, failing that, the judge rules on the authorisations that the guardian applies for for acts that he or she cannot perform alone. However, the authorisations of the family council…

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