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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4221-14-1

…ation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise, where appropriate, natio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : The Executive Council and the Chairman of the Executive Council

Article L7224-4

I. - The regime of incompatibilities concerning councillors to the Martinique Assembly remains applicable to a councillor to the Martinique Assembly who resigns because he accepts the office of execut…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation.

Article R5121-26

…ducts mentioned in this article, the dossier attached to the marketing authorisation application is compiled under the following conditions: 1° Where the applicant demonstrates, by reference to approp…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title II: EXAMINATION OF THE REQUEST FOR TREATMENT OF OVERBELT SITUATION

Article L723-3

The debtor may, within a period set by decree, contest the statement of liabilities drawn up by the commission and ask the commission to refer the matter to the protection litigation judge, with a vie…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-105-2

…six financial years, from among the bodies accredited for this purpose by the French Accreditation Committee (COFRAC) or by any other accreditation body that is a signatory to the multilateral recogn…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Findings.

Article 252

The reporting officer is notified of his assignment by the court clerk.The reporting officer is notified of his assignment by the court clerk.The reporting officer is notified of his assignment by the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 167-2

The examining magistrate may ask the expert to submit a provisional report before his final report. The public prosecutor and the parties then have a period set by the examining magistrate, which may…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Digital health space, shared medical file and pharmaceutical file

Article L1111-23

…s mentioned in article L. 4231-2.A decree by the Conseil d'Etat, issued after consultation with the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés and the Conseil national de l'ordre des pharm…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Operation

Article L4132-9-1

…e held in more than one place by videoconference for the election of the President and the Standing Committee, nor for the adoption of the initial budget, nor for the application of articles L. 4132-2…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Operation

Article L7122-9-1

…e held in more than one place by videoconference for the election of the President and the Standing Committee, nor for the adoption of the initial budget, nor for the application of articles L. 7122-2…

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