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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 Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-150

…ucts in article R. 5121-172 ;3° For the homeopathic medicinal products mentioned in article L. 5121-13, after the registration provided for in that article;4° For the traditional herbal medicinal prod…

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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 Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Offences common to the various forms of commercial companies.

Article R247-2

The fine provided for in Article 5 of the 131-13 of the French Penal Code for fifth-class offences shall be imposed if the chairman, director, chief executive or manager of a company issues securities…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Central services and inspection

Article L1421-3

…ata necessary for the performance of their duties, in compliance with the provisions of article 226-13 of the French Penal Code.Employees who are pharmacists shall have access to all individual medica…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Supervision on a consolidated basis by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and college of supervisors

Article L613-20-6-1

…tion receives an application for approval or exemption from approval referred to in Articles L. 517-13 and L. 517-14 from a financial holding company or mixed financial holding company established in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Import and export

Article R5121-108

…5121-12-1 as referred to in Article L. 5121-12 or a registration as referred to in Article L. 5121-13 or an authorisation as referred to in 12° or 13° of Article L. 5121-1 or which is not a medicinal…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-23-1

…matter of the patent is not patentable under the terms of Articles L. 611-10, L. 611-11 and L. 611-13 to L. 611-19; 2° The patent does not set out the invention clearly and completely enough for a pe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases.

Article L3841-2

…nesia;2° (Repealed) ;3° At the end of the first sentence of the first paragraph of I of Article L. 3131-13, the words: "of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency" are replaced by the words…

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