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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Measures imposed

Article R733-7

The benefit of the measures imposed by the commission, pursuant to the provisions of article L. 733-4, may not be invoked more than two months after the debtor has been summoned to pay the amount of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Coordinating doctors

Article R3711-7

A coordinating doctor may withdraw from the list. He shall inform the State Prosecutor, the sentence enforcement judge(s) who appointed him, as well as the doctors treating him and the persons who are…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of the profession.

Article R4381-75

…non-trading professional partnership have a common professional residence. However, the partnership may be authorised by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency to practise in one or more s…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Conurbation community

Article L5216-7

…owers of the syndicat de communes, which becomes a syndicat mixte within the meaning of article L. 5711-1, or of the syndicat mixte concerned. Nor does it alter the perimeter within which this syndica…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-7

…es L. 3212-1 and L. 3213-1 who do not come under the provisions of Article 64 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 and persons admitted to a health…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-title I: Common provisions

Article 774-3

…pt from compulsory representation, the parties appear assisted by their lawyer.In other cases, they may be assisted under the conditions set out in article 762.The hearing is held in chambers, without…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-18

…cted from the sentence still to be enforced; 3° That the competent authority of the executing State may decide to adapt the custodial sentence or detention order if, by its duration or nature, it is i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 775-1

The court which passes sentence may expressly exclude its mention in bulletin No. 2 either in the sentencing judgment, or by judgment passed subsequently on the application of the convicted person inv…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the recognition and monitoring in France of convictions and probation decisions handed down by the competent authorities of other Member States of the European Union

Article 764-18

…Republic of convictions or probation decisions handed down by the courts of other Member States. It may also ask the competent authority of another Member State to forward to it a request for recognit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Implementing provisions.

Article L4311-7

…apter III; 4° The conditions under which the administrative authority empowered to check conformity may ask the manufacturer or importer, in application of Article L. 4313-1, to provide technical docu…

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