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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Tattooing products

Article L5437-3

…ons set out in article 131-33 of the same code; 5° a ban on manufacturing, packaging, importing and marketing tattoo products for a maximum of five years.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Miscellaneous products and objects.

Article L5232-5

I.-Any person who places on the market products which, at the end of their manufacturing process, contain substances whose endocrine-disrupting properties the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products.

Article L5521-6

…authorisation issued by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.The marketing authorisation provided for in Article L. 5121-8, the registrations provided for in Article…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-84

…on (EU) 2022/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on a pilot scheme for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology, and amending Regulations (EU) No 600/…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholder default.

Article R228-24

…ed letter with acknowledgement of receipt.The sale of shares not admitted to trading on a regulated market is carried out at public auction by an investment services provider other than a portfolio ma…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Conversion of the société européenne into a société anonyme.

Article R229-24

…des annonces légales obligatoires when the company's shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market or when its shares are not all in registered form.This notice includes the following informat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3-1: Marketing authorisation monitoring committee

Article R1313-27-1

…al of the Agency on : 1° The conditions of applicability of risk management measures with regard to marketing authorisations ; 2° The safety of use of products in relation to human and animal health a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope, definition, characteristics

Article R1322-3

…the points of thermal use or at the points of distribution in public refreshment areas. During its marketing, packaged natural mineral water meets the quality criteria defined above.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5 : Procedures for dealing with situations of non-compliance with the quality of natural mineral water

Article R1322-44-6

…ures to ensure that the non-compliant water cannot be consumed by the end user, even if it has been marketed, nor be distributed to spa treatment centres, and immediately inform consumers or spa users…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Consolidated publication systems

Article D549-5

…3(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments has been waived as a derogation in accordance with Article 4(1)(a)…

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