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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Commission for pharmacy assistants and hospital pharmacy assistants.

Article D4241-25

The secretariat of the commission is provided by the decentralised authority mentioned in article D. 4241-20.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Group Nursing, Rehabilitation and Medico-Technical Care Commission

Article R6132-12

…agreement provides for the setting up of a grouping nursing, re-education and medico-technical care commission. This commission is made up of the chairmen and, in a number determined by the founding a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to employee participation in general meetings or section or branch meetings

Article L2363-19

Time spent in meetings by employees attending the meetings mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 2363-18 is considered as working time and paid at the normal rate.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to employee participation in general meetings or section or branch meetings

Article L2363-18

In the case of a European Cooperative Society, the registered office of which is situated in a Member State, the law of which allows, under the conditions provided for in article 4 of article 59 of Co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the issuing of a European Investigation Order by the French judicial authorities

Article D47-1-2

Any European investigation order issued by one of the judicial authorities mentioned in Article 694-20 is drafted using the form set out in Annex A to Directive 2014/41/EU of 3 April 2014 on the Europ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the issuing of a European Investigation Order by the French judicial authorities

Article D47-1-3

When the magistrate who issued the EIO is informed by the executing authority of the impossibility of carrying out the requested act or of the need to substitute another measure, he or she may withdra…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the issuing of a European Investigation Order by the French judicial authorities

Article D47-1-4

If an appeal is lodged against the European Investigation Order, the magistrate who issued that order shall inform the executing authority thereof, as well as of the outcome of that appeal. However, f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The constitution of the European company.

Article D229-13-1

For the purpose of registering the European Company formed by way of merger, each company taking part in the operation shall, in addition to the certificate referred to in the third paragraph of Artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The constitution of the European company.

Article D229-13

The Registrar shall have a period of eight days from the filing of the declaration of conformity to issue the certificate of conformity of the acts and formalities prior to the merger provided for in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The constitution of the European company.

Article R229-14

…dissolution of the société européenne is published in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales and in a medium authorised to receive legal notices in the département of the registere…

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