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Showing 55915600 of 56769 articles for Art. L 144-10 · C. civ. Art. 1709 · Cass. com. 11 May 1971 · Cass. com. 23 March 1999 n° 97-15.000

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R214-103

For the application of article L. 214-39 and independently of the application of 1 of article L. 312-2, the undertaking for collective real estate investment takes out loans with finance companies or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: "ORSAN" system

Article R3131-10-3

I. - The data referred to in article R. 3131-10-2 is collected and recorded in the SIVIC data processing system by the staff of health establishments caring for patients, including in the context of e…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Samples taken from a deceased person.

Article R1211-10

The cost of transporting the patient from one healthcare establishment to another, with a view to establishing the diagnosis of brain death and taking samples for therapeutic purposes, shall be borne…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D3661-10

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to professional customers

Article D533-11-1

Investment service providers other than portfolio management companies may, on their own initiative or at the request of a client, treat as a non-professional client, either generally or in respect of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Tasks and activities of internal-use pharmacies

Article R5126-10

The internal-use pharmacy may carry out, on its own behalf or within the framework of cooperation on behalf of other internal-use pharmacies, all or some of the tasks provided for in 2° and 3° of Arti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Promotional communications

Article R1223-10

I. - The provision of free samples of a plasma referred to in the second paragraph of article L. 1223-6 is only permitted during the two years following its initial inclusion or modification on the li…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Other pharmacists

Article R5126-104

When the scale of the activity of the pharmacy for internal use so requires, and in any event in order to carry out these activities on each of the sites of the pharmacy for internal use, the Minister…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Operations of strategic interest to the French economy abroad

Article R442-11-4

The Minister for the Economy decides whether to grant the guarantee provided for in article R. 442-11-1, after consulting the Commission des garanties et du crédit au commerce extérieur, on the basis…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose of agreements.

Article R6142-10

When, in a hospital department of a university centre, teaching and research duties are fully performed and diagnostic and care duties cannot be fully performed by members of the teaching and hospital…

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