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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession of medical electroradiology manipulator

Article L4351-7

Notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 4351-2, persons recruited by private radiologists between 25 July 1984 and 1 January 1991 to provide them with assistance in accompanying and installing pa…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to compensation for personal injury.

Article R421-6

If the guarantee fund intends to contest the validity of one of the exceptions mentioned in article R. 421-5, invoked by the insurer, or if it is unable to take a final decision on the matter, it must…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Consultative Commission

Article 434-2

The readers consulted on projects for which aid is requested for creation and distribution on digital platforms are chosen from a list drawn up by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Exceptional aid for particularly vulnerable farmers

Article 919-76

The decision to grant aid is taken after consulting a committee comprising five members appointed for a period of one year: 1° The Chairman of the Selective Exhibition Grants Commission; 2° A represen…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Approved bodies for the management of the right to authorise simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission and representation by a signal distributor

Article R323-5

The designation provided for in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 132-20-1, in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 132-20-3, in the third paragraph of I of Article L. 132-20-4, in the second…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Compulsory licences and expropriation for national defence purposes

Article R613-36

Following the notifications provided for in the preceding article, the owner of the patent application or patent shall make known to the Minister for Defence, by registered letter with acknowledgement…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

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 Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Matrimonial brokerage contracts

Article R224-2

In the event of termination of the contract for a legitimate reason as provided for in article L. 224-90, the price initially agreed is reduced in proportion, respectively, to the duration of the cont…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Approval of associations

Article R811-7

Authorisation may be withdrawn following the opinion of the public prosecutor, when the association no longer has the number of members required for its authorisation, when it can no longer justify th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6°: Exemption from traffic formalities

Article 458

Sont affranchés des formalités à la circulation :1° (Repealed);2° (Repealed);3° and 4° (repealed)5° (Repealed);6° Under the conditions laid down by order of the Minister responsible for the budget mad…

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