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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Protocol for therapeutic use and patient monitoring

Article R5121-74-6

…o the doctors who prescribed the medicinal product, the pharmacists or persons mentioned in article L. 5126-10 who dispensed it, the regional pharmacovigilance centres and, where appropriate, the pois…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-1-1

…vate or public law companies, when the investigation concerns the offences provided for in Articles L. 8224-1 and L. 8224-2 of the Labour Code;4° The provision of data relating to civil status, identi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Commencement of proceedings

Article R631-7-1-A

For the application of the second paragraph of Article L. 631-7, the chairman shall have the court clerk summon the debtor, the judicial representatives and the auditors to the hearing and shall notif…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Sociétés civiles de placement immobilier (non-trading property investment companies), sociétés d'épargne forestière (forestry savings companies) and groupements forestiers d'investissement (forestry investment groups)

Article R214-176-7

…ions of this article do not apply in the event of a public offering as referred to in 1° of article L. 411-2.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security detention and surveillance

Article 706-53-19

…rvision referred to in article 723-30, in particular a treatment order provided for by the articles L. 3711-1 to L. 3711-5 of the Public Health Code and, after verification of the technical feasibilit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-7

…ence(s), or of the place where they have elected domicile under the conditions laid down in Article L. 264-1 of the Code de l'action sociale et des familles, as well as any corresponding dates; 2° Inf…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title IV: Other service providers

Article D54-10-7

As soon as it receives an application for authorisation pursuant to Article L. 54-10-5, the AMF will investigate the application. It may ask the applicant for any additional information needed to exam…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-9

…the obligation to monitor patients and collect information, or if the conditions set out in Article L. 5121-12-1 are no longer met, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicame…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART ONE

Article Annexe 13-7

…erms "radioactive substance", "radioactive material" and "radioactive waste" are defined in article L. 542-1-1 of the French Environment Code.Accelerator: equipment or installation in which particles…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R324-1-7

…R. * 421-17 du même code, l'autorisation prévue au premier alinéa du IV bis de l'article L. 324-1-1 tient lieu de permis de construire ou de décision de non-opposition à déclaration préalab…

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