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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-5-4

The regional health agencies may enter into a contract with the organisations mentioned inarticle L. 111-1 of the Mutual Health Code and the doctors employed by these organisations, on the basis of wh…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-5-1

The regional health agencies may conclude a contract with a public health establishment and the practitioners mentioned in 1° of article L. 6152-1 working full-time in these establishments, on the bas…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Infringements of provisions relating to cinematographic exhibition permits

Article L432-3

In the event of conviction to the penalty provided for in…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 2: Apprehension in the hands of a third party

Article R222-8

If no voluntary surrender is made within the time limit set, the distraining creditor may apply to the enforcement judge in the place where the third party holder of the property resides for an order…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Confidentiality

Article L2132-1

The purchaser may not disclose confidential information of which he has become aware during the course of the procurement procedure, such as information the disclosure of which would infringe business…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Confidentiality

Article L2332-1

The purchaser may not communicate, subject to rights acquired by contract, confidential information of which he has become aware during the award procedure, such as information the disclosure of which…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VIa: Customs detention and criminal proceedings

Article L716-13

Natural persons guilty of one of the offences provided for in articles L. 716-9 and L. 716-10 may be ordered, at their own expense, to remove from commercial channels the objects deemed to be infringi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 671

Trees, shrubs and bushes may only be planted close to the boundary of the neighbouring property at the distance prescribed by the specific regulations currently in force, or by constant and recognised…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Rights and obligations of undivided co-owners.

Article 815-11

Any undivided co-owner may claim his annual share of the profits, after deduction of the expenses incurred by the acts to which he has consented or which are enforceable against him.In the absence of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Gradual gifts.

Article 1054

If the encumbered person is a reserved heir of the disposing person, the charge may only be imposed on the available portion. The donee may, however, accept, in the deed of gift or subsequently in a d…

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