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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Coordination and assessment

Article D1413-53

A committee of national reference centres shall be placed under the authority of the Director General of the Agence nationale de santé publique. This committee is responsible for: 1° Proposing to the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Coordination and assessment

Article D1413-54

The Committee of National Centres of Reference is made up of a maximum of twenty members. It comprises: 1° Representatives of the Ministry of Health; 2° Representatives of the National Public Health A…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Designation procedures and arrangements

Article D1413-52

National centres of reference, "associated national centres of reference-laboratories" and "national centres of reference-expert laboratories" carry out their missions within the framework of agreemen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Coordination and assessment

Article D1413-57

All the tasks provided for in article D. 1413-46 are funded by an annual grant paid by the Agence nationale de santé publique, within the limits of the appropriations entered in its budget. The paymen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Director or deputy director of a national reference centre for communicable diseases

Article R6213-6

The application for authorisation referred to in Article R. 6213-5 must be sent to the national management centre by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, accompanied by a dossier, the co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Director or deputy director of a national reference centre for communicable diseases

Article R6213-7

If the Minister for Health fails to respond within four months of receiving the complete application, the authorisation application will be rejected.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Director or deputy director of a national reference centre for communicable diseases

Article R6213-5

…concerned. The authorisation to practise is granted in the field of specialisation of the national reference centre concerned, for the period limited to the exercise of the function of director or de…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: The succession option.

Article 1336

The claims of the accepting heir up to the amount of the net assets against the estate are brought against the other heirs. If there are none or if the actions are brought by all the heirs, they are b…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: The succession option.

Article 1337

At the end of the fifteen-month period provided for in Article 792 of the Civil Code, after either the payment of all declared creditors or the exhaustion of the assets and the allocation of the corre…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: The succession option.

Article 1338

The heir advances the costs of advertising to the court registry. These costs are borne by the estate. However, where the heir declares that he is retaining an asset from the estate, the costs associa…

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