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French Sports CodeIn force
Single section: Community aid

Article R113-3

In support of their grant applications, sports associations or the companies they form must provide the following documents: 1° Balance sheets and profit and loss accounts for the last two financial y…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 61 bis

…9 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items, customs officers shall immobilise, under conditions laid down by decree in the Council of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Collection, preparation and storage of blood, blood components and labile blood products.

Article L1221-4

Blood, its components and their derivatives may not be distributed, issued or used without biological examinations and screening tests for transmissible diseases having been carried out.Blood, its com…

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French Civil Aviation CodeIn force
CHAPTER II: MORTGAGES AND LIENS ON AIRCRAFT.

Article L122-3

…L. 122-4. When they are used on the aircraft to which they are assigned, they must be replaced immediately. The creditor sha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorised legal acts.

Article 815-7-1

…pe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Martin, when an undivided property for residential use or for mixed residential and professional use is vacant or has not been effectively occupied for…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to establishments organising underwater diving using air, oxygen or mixtures other than air

Article A322-74

When, in the natural environment, the submerged group is led by a supervisor, that supervisor must hold a qualification mentioned in Annex III-15 b. This person is responsible for the conduct of the d…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-8

Pharmacy assistants may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which issued them. He must indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. Where the eviden…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Orthoptists.

Article L4342-2-1

Orthoptists may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which issued them. He shall indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. Where the evidence of f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Storage receipts

Article L522-37-3

…enting a batch of fungible goods to be taken from a larger batch. The general shop operator may not use or dispose of goods represented by a storage receipt on his own account, except with the prior a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Schools of territorial chambers of commerce and industry and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L711-19

Territorial chambers of commerce and industry and regional chambers of commerce and industry shall define their relationship with the consular higher education establishments they have set up, either…

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