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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The alternative obligation

Article 1307

An obligation is an alternative obligation when it covers several services and the performance of one of them releases the debtor.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Informing users and expressing their wishes

Article R1541-2

Articles R. 1111-17 to R. 1111-20 are applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, in their wording resulting from Decree No. 2016-1067 of 3 August 2016, with the exception of III of Article R. 1…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Informing users and expressing their wishes

Article R1521-2

Articles R. 1111-8-8 and R. 1111-9 to R. 1111-12 are applicable to the Wallis and Futuna Islands and the French Southern Territories in the wording resulting from Decree No. 2018-137 of 26 February 20…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-21

On a proposal from the most representative departmental emergency medical transport association referred to in article R. 6312-20 and after obtaining the opinion of the medical transport sub-committee…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-22

When drawing up the on-call roster, the most representative departmental emergency medical transport association mentioned in article R. 6312-20 will call on all the approved medical transport compani…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-20

The most representative emergency medical transport association at departmental level proposes and coordinates the operational response of medical transport companies to requests for urgent medical tr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-23

Ambulance coordination is provided on a continuous basis in each department. A professional is assigned, at least during the day, to ambulance coordination missions by the most representative departme…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to the publication of a book in printed and digital form

Article L132-17-3-1

The publisher pays the royalties no later than six months after the accounts are closed, unless otherwise agreed in the binding agreement referred to in article L. 132-17-8. If the publisher has not c…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Exemptions of more than two years

Article 1384

I. - New buildings used as principal residences are exempt from property tax on built properties for a period of fifteen years from the year following that of their completion when they have been the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Research mentioned in 1° of Article L. 1121-1 requiring express authorisation involving the products mentioned in Articles L. 1125-1 to L. 1125-3

Article R1125-10

The time limits within which the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé must notify the applicant of his response are set as follows: 1° Sixty days…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
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