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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Role of health care institutions

Article R1221-48

…plementation of haemovigilance rules in the health care organisation to the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator and the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produit…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Role of health care institutions

Article R1221-41

…s de santé, the establishments mentioned in the first paragraph of Article R. 1221-40 shall collect and keep all the information relating to haemovigilance and transfusion safety to which they have ac…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Role of health care institutions

Article R1221-40

Each public or private healthcare establishment is required to collect and keep the following information for each unit of labile blood product distributed or issued to it for a hospitalised patient:…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Production

Article 416

The designation of "vin doux naturel" is reserved for wines whose production is traditional and customary:Vinified directly by the harvesting producers and made exclusively from their harvests of musc…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Penalties involving deprivation of rights.

Article 432

…ng offence or an offence of importing or exporting without declaration shall be disqualified from standing for election to the stock exchange, exercising the functions of stockbroker or broker, and fr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Liability

Article 413

Liability actions are barred after five years from the date on which the person concerned comes of age, even if the management would have continued beyond that date, or from the end of the measure if…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Liability

Article 412

…he performance of their duties.Where the fault causing the damage was committed in the organisation and operation of guardianship by the guardianship judge, the director of the judicial registry servi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Prevention

Article L232-4

Failure by a doctor to comply with the obligation to transmit information provided for in article L. 232-3 or with the prohibitions mentioned in article L. 232-10 may result in disciplinary action bef…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Principles

Article R212-4

…diplomas, qualifications or certificates of qualification, be placed under the authority of a tutor and have met the requirements prior to being placed in a teaching situation.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals.

Article L1242-4

…act, a fixed-term employment contract may be concluded in the cases mentioned in articles L. 1242-2 and L. 1242-3 and, in addition, when the apprentice must fulfil national service obligations within…

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