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Showing 50815090 of 7235 articles for Art. n° 20-15164 · CCRCS opinion 2013-001

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-5

…ion of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, after obtaining the opinion of the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine when they concern xenogenic cell the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Regional hospital groups

Article L6132-2-3

…he agreement of the directors of the participating institutions, and after receiving the favourable opinion of the grouping's strategic committee, the grouping's medical commission and the medical com…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial provisions.

Article R1121-3

…pplication of 2° of III of Article L. 1121-16-1, the sponsor may, provided that he has a favourable opinion from the Committee for the Protection of Individuals, ask the Ministers responsible for heal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Neighbourhood councils

Article LO6324-1

…tion facilities that concern the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood council has one month to give its opinion. This period is reduced to fifteen days in urgent cases, at the request of the president of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Conditions for issuing, suspending or revoking approval for bodies providing training for local elected representatives (R)

Article R1221-21-2

…dual right to training of local elected representatives referred to in article L. 1621-4. After the opinion of the national council for the training of local elected representatives, the body is notif…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R712-22-1

…proposes an allocation which is submitted to the finance commission of the regional chamber for its opinion, and then to the chambers in its constituency by the president of the regional chamber of co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Single subsection: Restricted traffic zones

Article D2213-1-0-5

…om the introduction of a mobility low emission zone. This assessment is sent to the Prefect for his opinion, and amended if necessary to take account of this opinion..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Withdrawal of sentence reductions in the event of non-compliance with obligations

Article D147-43

…paragraph of article 763-10 shall not apply. In the case provided for in the second paragraph, the opinion of the multidisciplinary committee on security measures is not required if the person had al…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Biological procedures used in medically assisted procreation

Article R2141-1-8

…ed to in article L. 2141-1; he will then inform the applicant. If it is accompanied by the reasoned opinion of the guidance council ruling on the conditions set out in article R. 2141-1-1 and the tech…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Combating the international spread of diseases in French Polynesia

Article R3845-5

…seases, the High Commissioner of the Republic shall take the following measures after obtaining the opinion of the authorities in charge of health control in French Polynesia. 1° Measures to keep peop…

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