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Showing 44614470 of 61711 articles for Art. R 330-2 · Cass. com. 7 July 2004 · CA Paris 5 November 2008

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Referral to and decision by the court.

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 Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation of socio-medico-judicial security centres

Article R53-8-55

The tasks and organisation of the medico-socio-judicial security centres, as well as the conditions under which the detainees' lawyers and the judicial authority have access to information relating to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Relations between detainees and their defence counsel

Article R57-6-5

The procedures for issuing communication permits to lawyers and the rules applicable to relations between detainees and their defence counsel are determined by the provisions of articles R. 313-14, R.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Allocation of seats to employee trade unions

Article R23-112-5

When the number of votes cast in the professional and territorial area of competence of a committee is less than twice the number of seats to be filled for this committee, the votes cast at national l…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Manufacture and import of investigational medicinal products.

Article R5124-57-3

Where batches of investigational medicinal products come from another Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and are manufactured or imported in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Manufacture and import of investigational medicinal products.

Article R5124-57-1

By way of derogation from the provisions of the first sub-section, the provisions of this sub-section apply to the manufacture and importation of investigational medicinal products.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Manufacture and import of investigational medicinal products.

Article R5124-57-6

For investigational medicinal products, the documents relating to each batch are kept by the pharmaceutical establishment which manufactures it, for at least five years after the end of the trial or t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Manufacture and import of investigational medicinal products.

Article R5124-57-4

The importing pharmaceutical establishment shall ensure that the investigational medicinal products it imports have been subjected to standards of good manufacturing practice at least equivalent to th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Single chapter: Processing of personal data known as the "interministerial information system for victims of attacks and disasters".

Article R2-15-5

The right to object provided for in Article 21 of the aforementioned Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data of the persons mentioned in 1°, 2° and 3° of Article R. 2-15-1 by auth…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4: Restoration proceedings

Article R613-52-1

A decision on the appeal for restoration shall be taken within six months of the date on which it was lodged. This period is interrupted, where applicable, by the notification provided for in Article…

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