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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article R612-28

…loitation may be granted under the conditions set out in the second and third paragraphs of Article R. 612-27. The Minister of Defence may notify the Director of the Institut national de la propriété…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article R612-27

The request for authorisation to disclose and freely exploit the invention which is the subject of a patent application, before the end of the five-month period provided for in article L. 612-9, shall…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article R612-29

The request for compensation for the loss caused by the extension of the prohibitions on disclosure and free exploitation is sent by the owner of the patent application to the Minister of Defence by r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Apprenticeship programme authorisation procedure

Article R1161-20

Any change to any of the elements of the application for authorisation of the programme will give rise to a new authorisation, issued under the same conditions as the initial authorisation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Apprenticeship programme authorisation procedure

Article R1161-21

Decisions to authorise or withdraw authorisation taken in application of Article L. 1161-5 are published on the Agency's website. Decisions to withdraw programme authorisation may be accompanied by an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Conduct of the procedure

Article R631-26

The order issued by the official receiver pursuant to article L. 631-17 indicates the number of employees whose redundancy is authorised as well as the activities and professional categories concerned…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Voting and electoral operations.

Article R723-21

Until the expiry of the time limits for contentious appeals, the media files comprising the copy of source programmes and executable programmes, the voting materials, the count, results and backup fil…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R4127-284

All dental surgeons, when they are entered on the roll, must state before the departmental council that they are familiar with this code of ethics. They must inform the departmental council of any cha…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R4127-283

Reasons must be given for any decision taken by the Dental Surgeons' Association in application of this Code of Deontology. Decisions taken by the departmental councils may be reformed or annulled by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Assessment and early intervention pathways for neurodevelopmental disorders

Article R2135-2

…form of a lump sum. They may not request direct payment from patients.V.-As an exception to article R. 314-122 of the Code de l'Action Sociale et des Familles, reimbursement of additional care is not…

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