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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L4211-6

Any person who has obtained authorisation from the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, after obtaining the opinion of the Académie nationale de médecine, may prepare a…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Contracts for the commissioning of one or more artistic works to be created

Article R2172-11

When the commission can only be awarded to a specific service provider in accordance with the provisions of article R. 2122-3, the purchaser may negotiate the contract for the decoration of public bui…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 8: Notification of the opinions of the advisory committees for the amicable settlement of disputes

Article D2197-21

The committee notifies its opinion within six months of the date on which the matter is referred to it. This period may be extended by periods of one month, up to a maximum of three months, where this…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligation of the holder to subcontract

Article R2393-8

The purchaser shall indicate in the contract notice the minimum proportion of the contract value that the contractor will be required to subcontract in the form of a range comprising a minimum percent…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Mandate

Article L722-14

Subject to the application of the provisions of Article L. 722-15, no person may be appointed to exercise the functions of juge-commissaire under the conditions provided for in Book VI unless he has e…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the Court of Appeal against decisions of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-30

The defendant shall have, on pain of inadmissibility noted ex officio, a period of three months from the notification of the claimant's pleadings referred to in Article R. 411-29 to file his pleadings…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Entry on the list of industrial property attorneys

Article R422-5

Any person registered on the list of industrial property attorneys may request to be removed from it. They must do so if they no longer meet the conditions set out in Article R. 422-2. The request is…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 3: Accounting and financial transactions

Article R121-38

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons is subject to the provisions of Titles I and III of Decree No. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting ma…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Territorial limits.

Article L4122-1

The territorial boundaries of the regions shall be amended by law after consultation with the regional councils and departmental councils concerned. The modification of the territorial boundaries of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Powers of the Regional Council

Article L4433-4

The Regional Council of Guadeloupe may be asked to give its opinion on any draft agreements concerning regional cooperation in economic, social, technical, scientific, cultural, civil security or envi…

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