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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title V: Information organisation

Article L451-3

In the event of a road traffic accident involving a vehicle normally based in the territory of the French Republic, the information centre shall provide the information specified in 1° to 5° of articl…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Educational assistance

Article 375-4

In the cases specified in 1°, 2°, 4° and 5° of the previous article, the judge may instruct either a qualified person or an open observation, education or re-education service to provide help and advi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IX: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L490-3

When a person who has, for less than two years, been convicted of one of the offences defined by articles L. 442-5, L. 442-6 and L. 443-1, commits the same offence, the maximum fine incurred is double…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Grouped offers

Article L224-42-2

I.-If a bundled offer of services or a bundled offer of services and terminal equipment offered to a consumer includes at least one Internet access service or interpersonal communications service base…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative penalties

Article L6241-3

Failure to comply with the provisions of articles L. 6211-8 and L. 6211-9, when it results in unjustified expenditure for a health insurance organisation, is sanctioned by the penalties provided for i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors

Article L1432-3

I.-The Board of Directors of the Regional Health Agency is made up of :1° Representatives of the State ;2° Members of the boards and councils of the local health insurance bodies within its jurisdicti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Electronic trade in medicinal products by a dispensing pharmacy

Article L5125-35

The creation of the pharmacy's e-commerce website for medicinal products provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 5125-33 is subject to the existence of the licence referred to in article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5461-3

I.-Placing on the market or putting into service on French territory a medical device or its accessories is punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros: 1° Without the EU declar…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 8: Relations with the State representative

Article L7222-31

Each year, the State representative in the territorial collectivity informs the Assembly of Martinique, through a special report, of the activity of the State services in the collectivity.This special…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 8: Relations with the State representative

Article L7222-30

At his request, the president of the assembly of Martinique shall receive from the representative of the State in the territorial collectivity the information necessary for the exercise of his attribu…

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