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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions applicable to tourist offices set up as a public industrial and commercial establishment.

Article R133-4

The municipal councillors or members of the public inter-municipal cooperation body who are members of the Office's Management Committee are elected by the municipal council or by the deliberative bod…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Document prévisionnel de gestion des emplois et des crédits de personnel (forward-looking document for managing jobs and staff appropriations)

Article A114-4

The forward-looking document for the management of jobs and staff credits referred to in article R. 114-22, drawn up by the authorising officer of the sports resources, expertise and performance centr…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Solidarity.

Article 407

…goods, those responsible for importing or exporting them, those involved in the fraud, accomplices and adherents are all jointly and severally liable for payment of the fine and may be ordered to pay…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to all companies

Article R822-41

The application for registration of a company shall be submitted collectively by the partners and addressed to the High Council under the conditions provided for in articles R. 822-8 to R. 822-11. The…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to all companies

Article R822-40

The company is incorporated subject to the condition precedent that it is entered on the list drawn up by the High Council.

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

Article R1221-46

When the agenda concerns transfusion safety and haemovigilance, the following are present as of right at meetings of the institutional medical committee in public health establishments or the institut…

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

Article R1221-44

I. - The haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent is appointed, in public health establishments and health cooperation groups set up as public health establishments, by the director. This a…

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

Article R1221-47

The regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator receives the minutes, reports and other documents relating to transfusion safety and haemovigilance drawn up by the hospital medical comm…

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

Article R1221-43

I.-In each of the establishments mentioned in the first paragraph of article R. 1221-40, a haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent is responsible for ensuring : 1° Reporting, under the con…

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

Article R1221-45

I.- The mission of the institutional medical committees in public health establishments and the institutional medical conferences in private health establishments is, in particular, to contribute thro…

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