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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-7

…s for human use must comply with good laboratory practice, the principles of which are laid down by decision of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé. Good laboratory…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal records

Article R300

Article R. 75 shall read as follows: "Art. R. 75.-When a court has handed down a decision against a French national that entails the deprivation of electoral rights, the court clerk shall draw up on a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Candidatures of employee trade union organisations

Article R2122-39

Decisions concerning the validation of one or more candidacies may be contested by petition, on pain of inadmissibility, within fifteen days of the publication referred to in article R. 2122-38, befor…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Disputes

Article R2143-5

…r procedural formalities, and after giving three days' notice to all interested parties.The court's decision is notified by the court registry within three days by registered letter with acknowledgeme…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Deregistration

Article R521-20

…l provide proof: 1° by proof of agreement between the parties; > or 2° by a final and binding court decision; > or 3° by the deed recording the sale of the encumbered asset in application of Book II o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article R2311-12

…dded to the operating expenditure for the financial year. For allocation to reserves, the budgetary decision to take back the results, adopted by the deliberative assembly, is implemented by issuing a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Electronic voting procedures

Article R2314-17

…seal, until the expiry of the appeal period and, where legal action has been taken, until the court decision has become final, the media files including the copy of source programmes and executable pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1 : Examination for admission to the probationary period, probationary period and examination to qualify as a judicial representative

Article R812-17

…mentioned in Article R. 812-15, a receipt is issued. The national commission will issue a reasoned decision within four months of the receipt being issued. The decision by which the national commissi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption of the budget and settlement of accounts

Article R3312-10

…dded to the operating expenditure for the financial year. For allocation to reserves, the budgetary decision to take back the results, adopted by the deliberative assembly, is implemented by issuing a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D3661-12

…d to the operating expenditure for the financial year. For appropriation to reserves, the budgetary decision to take back the results, adopted by the deliberative assembly, is implemented by issuing a…

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