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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Healthcare waste produced by patients undergoing self-treatment and users of self-tests

Article R1335-8-2

Producers or the eco-organisation to which they belong pursuant to article L. 541-10 of the Environment Code provide pharmacies and pharmacies for internal use, free of charge, with packaging designed…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Distribution and supply of labile blood products

Article R1221-20-3

I.-The application for an initial authorisation to manage a blood establishment is sent by the director of the health establishment or by the administrator of the grouping to the regional health agenc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Right to training

Article R4135-19-2

Within the limit of the maximum amount set in application of 3° of article R. 1621-7 of the present code, the member of the regional council acquires his individual training rights recorded in euros e…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Involvement of the State representative in the département

Article R1334-29-9

I. - In application of 2° of article L. 1334-15, the Prefect may require a survey to be carried out, at the expense of the building owner, to check that the measures planned or implemented under the o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-23

Judicial authorities, as well as specially empowered judicial police officers, seized in the context of proceedings referred to in 2° of Article 706-53-7 or notified in accordance with Article R. 53-8…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Authorisation for members of the gendarmerie and officials of the national police force with the status of judicial police officers to effectively exercise the powers associated with this status.

Article R15-6-2

The request for authorisation shall be addressed to the public prosecutor at the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction the reservist's first assignment takes place. This request is forwarded by th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Operating conditions

Article R1132-5-2

The implementation of the provisions of Article R. 1132-5-1 is subject to the establishment of an organisational protocol between the qualified medical practitioner in genetics and the genetic counsel…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Dematerialised service

Article R5132-1-20

I.-Insofar as they are strictly necessary for the purposes mentioned in article R. 5132-1-19, data belonging to the following categories: 1° Data identifying the beneficiary of a pathway; 2° Data rela…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Merchant accounting

Article R123-208-5

I. - Any person wishing to carry out an itinerant commercial or craft activity must present, at the request of the agents mentioned in article L. 123-30 the valid card allowing the exercise of an itin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Merchant accounting

Article R123-208-3

The declaration provided for in Article L. 123-29 is sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or delivered against receipt.If the application is incomplete, the regional chamber of co…

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