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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Addiction care, support and and prevention centres

Article D3411-1

…rt and prevention centres provide the following services for people with risky consumption, harmful use or dependence on psychoactive substances, and for their families and friends: 1° Reception, info…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5122-1

The information contained in advertising for a medicinal product must comply with the information given in the summary of product characteristics referred to in article R. 5121-21 and with the therape…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Prescribing, ordering and dispensing procedures

Article R5139-26

…onnement et du travail. The provisions of this section do not apply to medicinal products for human use or veterinary medicinal products containing micro-organisms or toxins which have been inactivate…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Quality control

Article D6221-22

External quality assessment bodies use a coding system to identify the techniques used in the analytical phase of each examination. Where quality control of a medical biology examination is carried ou…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article L511-8-1

…financial institution referred to in Article L. 511-22 or Article L. 511-23 may, when carrying on business in France, use the same name as that which it uses in its home Member State.However, where t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Establishments manufacturing, importing or distributing medicated feed.

Article R5142-55

…1° Only medicated premixes covered by a marketing authorisation or a temporary authorisation for use are used, in accordance with the conditions described in this authorisation; 2° The medicated fe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for swearing in

Article L131-19

Any person, other than those mentioned in Article L. 131-18, who has used one of the names referred to in that same article shall be liable to the penalties provided for in Article 433-17 of the Penal…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Evidence.

Article 259-3

The spouses must communicate with each other and with the judge, as well as with the experts and other persons designated by the judge pursuant to 9° and 10° of Article 255, all information and docume…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-39

…describe or transcribe, in a report which shall be placed in the file, the recorded data which are useful for establishing the truth. The judicial police officer or agent acting under his or her resp…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-5

…of article L. 232-5, gathering evidence and tracking down the perpetrators or gathering information useful for targeting controls, investigators may, if they have been specially authorised to do so by…

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