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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Therapeutic use protocol and data collection

Article R5121-70-1

As part of the monitoring obligations laid down in the therapeutic use protocol and the data collection obligations for all early access authorisations, the holder of the marketing rights for the medi…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 768-1

The automated national criminal record receives, as far as legal entities are concerned and after checking their identity by means of the national register of companies and establishments: 1° Unoppose…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: The jury

Article R212-10-7

As soon as the candidate has provided proof of possession of all the valid accumulation units, regardless of the method of acquisition, the rector of the academic region or the minister responsible fo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional development plan

Article L4433-7-1

The regional development plan, for the implementation of its guidelines on the protection and restoration of biodiversity, includes the following developments in particular: 1° It presents the ecologi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional development plan

Article L4433-10-7

…ity of the plan have been the subject of a joint examination by the State, the region in Guadeloupe and Reunion, the local authority in French Guyana and Martinique, the department in Mayotte, and the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: National Cancer Institute

Article D1415-1-7

The Institute's accounts are kept in accordance with the provisions of Titles I and III of Decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management, with the exception of…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Sustainable development plan

Article R4424-7-1

For the mise en compatibilité of Corsica's land use and sustainable development plan as part of an integrated procedure for housing or an integrated procedure for business property pursuant to Article…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 731-1

…ced under mobile electronic monitoring in accordance with the procedures set out in articles 763-12 and 763-13. The sentence enforcement court or the sentence enforcement judge, according to the disti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 776-1

…tin no. 2 of the criminal record of legal entities is issued: 1° To prefects, State administrations and local authorities to whom proposals or tenders for the award of public works or contracts are re…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Institution of proceedings

Article 750-1

…months from the referral to a conciliator; the claimant provides proof by any means of the referral and its consequences; 4° If the judge or administrative authority must, pursuant to a specific provi…

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