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Showing 38213830 of 5384 articles for Art. 13 juill. 2005

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Pharmaceutical products.

Article L5521-1-1

…ly; 3° The article is completed by a paragraph worded as follows 17° For the application of 12° and 13°, the establishments or organisations that prepare, store, distribute, transfer, import and expor…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to canvass.

Article D341-11

…eement sets out the terms and conditions under which the information provided for in Article D. 341-13 may be communicated directly to the Banque de France. It may also provide for the registration nu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Information for the administrative authority and local authorities

Article R1233-15-1

The administrative authority referred to in articles L. 1233-57-13 and L. 1233-57-21 is the Prefect of the département in which the establishment has its registered office. The information and reports…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 10: Rights of the seller of furniture, claims and restitutions.

Article R641-31

I.-Articles R. 624-13 to R. 624-15 shall apply to judicial liquidation proceedings subject to the following provisions: The application made on the basis of articles L. 624-9, L. 624-10, L. 624-18 or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions for authorising and operating public health establishments and medical biology analysis laboratories

Article R2131-8

…neral of the Agence de la biomédecine. When the provisions of the last paragraph of Article L. 6122-13 relating to the continued suspension or withdrawal of the authorisation are applied, the Director…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative authorisation.

Article R5142-4

…sations to open, as provided for in articles R. 5142-5 to R. 5142-7, R. 5142-9, R. 5142-10, R. 5142-13 and R. 5142-14, as well as the content of the file attached to the application, are laid down, on…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security detention and surveillance

Article 706-53-19

…r 706-53-18 and if the person presents risks of committing the offences mentioned in article 706-53-13, the regional secure detention court may, by the same decision and after an adversarial hearing d…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I-2: Examination of a person's genetic characteristics and identification by genetic fingerprinting for medical purposes

Article R1541-5

…ynesia, as amended by Decrees no. 2008-321 of 4 April 2008, no. 2010-344 of 31 March 2010 and no. 2013-527 of 20 June 2013, with the exception of articles R. 1131-3, R. 1131-7 to R. 1131-8, R. 1131-13…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Personalised pathway and republican integration contract

Article L413-5

…rom signing the Republican Integration Contract provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 413-2: 1° A temporary residence permit bearing the wording "temporary worker" provided for in article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to insurance undertakings.

Article R332-3

…uinquies of Article R. 332-2 and the loans mentioned in the third paragraph of 1° of Article R. 332-13, including a maximum of 10% for the group formed by:a) Shares in foreign insurance companies ment…

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