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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Blood transfusion activities

Article R1222-36

All blood establishments have the means to ensure the quality control of their products. However, the blood establishment may entrust quality control, under an agreement, either to another blood estab…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Blood transfusion activities

Article R1222-35

The collection of blood and its components, their biological qualification, the preparation, processing, distribution and issue of labile blood products are carried out in compliance with the good pra…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Public training establishments

Article D112-3

I.-The national public training establishments are: 1° L'Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance; 2° L'Institut français du cheval et de l'équitation; 3° L'Ecole nationale des…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Modulation of sentences according to the scale and seriousness of the offence and the personality of the offender, special provisions, repeat offending

Article 369

1. Having regard to the extent and seriousness of the offence committed and the personality of the offender, the court may : a) Release the offenders from confiscation of the means of transport, excep…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Rules for awarding contracts concluded on the basis of a qualification system

Article R2162-35

Where a call for competition is made by means of a notice on the existence of a qualification system, access to the consultation documents shall be provided as soon as possible and no later than the d…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Rules for awarding contracts concluded on the basis of a qualification system

Article R2162-36

Where certain consultation documents are not published on a buyer profile because the contracting entity imposes requirements on the selected participants to protect the confidentiality of certain inf…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Specific inspection regime

Article R613-39

When, pursuant to I of Article L. 613-33-3 , the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution initiates disciplinary proceedings against an electronic money institution referred to in I of Article…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: INTERREGIONAL AGREEMENT

Article L5622-3

The budgetary and accounting rules defined for the region in Chapter I of the single title of Book VI of Part One, by the first three paragraphs of article L. 4312-1, the first two paragraphs of artic…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Consent to adoption

Article 349

An adopted person over the age of thirteen years shall personally consent to his or her adoption. This consent is given in accordance with the forms provided for in the second paragraph of article 348…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Consent to adoption

Article 348

When the filiation of a minor is established with regard to both parents, both must consent to the adoption. If one of them is deceased, unable to express his or her will, or has lost his or her right…

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