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Showing 69516960 of 53863 articles for Art. Rép. Cherki: AN 24-1-2017 n° 94515

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-13-1

In the case of research involving the human person relating to the gene therapy and xenogenic cell therapy preparations mentioned in 12° and 13° of Article L. 5121-1, the authorisation to conduct the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions relating to the collection of parking charges by a contracting third party

Article R2333-120-12

…ntracting third party may not assign to the collection activities defined in article R. 2333-120-11 an agent who does not satisfy the conditions set out in 1° to 3° of article R. 2333-120-8. The contr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Allocations of free shares.

Article L225-197-1

I.-The Extraordinary General Meeting, on the report of the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, and on the special report of the company's Statutory Auditors or, if none has…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2a: Sociétés de participations financières de profession libérale de greffiers des tribunaux de commerce (financial holding companies for the liberal professions of commercial court registrars)

Article R743-139-21

Sociétés de participations financières de profession libérale set up, pursuant to article 31-1 of law n° 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal profes…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Missions.

Article L5311-1

I.-The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) is a public establishment under the supervision of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-1-1

The following definitions apply 1° "Investigational medicinal product" means a medicinal product which has been tested or used as a reference, including as a placebo, in a clinical trial; 2° "Authoris…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-12

The duration of the contract and the conditions of cancellation, in particular the right of the insurer and the insured to cancel the contract every year, are set out in the policy. However, the insur…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Exemption from producing all the documents mentioned in 2° of article L. 311-1

Article R313-14

…ng are exempt from presenting the documents provided for in articles R. 311-3, R. 313-1 to R. 313-4 and R. 313-6 to R. 313-8: 1° Andorran and Monegasque nationals; 2° Foreign nationals holding a visa…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of the agency

Article 706-163

The agency's resources comprise:1° Subsidies, advances and other contributions from the State and its public establishments, the European Union, local authorities, their groupings and their public est…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-117-1

…For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply 1° "Preventive treatment": any individual or collective prophylactic treatment applied to healthy animals exposed to a risk fac…

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