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Showing 951960 of 21091 articles for Art. CA Paris 20-5-2009 n° 08-2432

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Emergency care teaching centres and emergency first aid training

Article D6311-20

The emergency care teaching centre is set up in a healthcare establishment, within the hospital unit that includes the emergency medical assistance service. The emergency care teaching centre is place…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation

Article R6322-20

Where the holder of the authorisation is not a health care establishment, it shall set up a user relations and quality of care committee composed of : 1° The authorisation holder, or his representativ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Medical committee.

Article D6431-20

The following persons sit on the committee in an advisory capacity: 1° The director of the agency or his representative; he may be assisted by one or more members of staff of his choice; 2° The repres…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Itinerant commercial and craft activities.

Article R123-208-1

I. - The following professions remain subject to the regulations applicable to them: 1° Commercial agents mentioned in articles L. 134-1 et seq; 2° Persons carrying out the activity of press salesman…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Procedures for the performance of judicial police duties by authorised customs officers

Article R15-33-20

Authorised customs officers must state their name and capacity in all reports they draw up in matters of criminal investigation.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Retention period for data entered in the register and procedures for deleting them

Article R53-21-20

…ept for a period of thirty years from the day on which the examination, expertise or assessment was carried out or, if the person was a minor at the time of the offence, for a period of fifteen years.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-20-3

The procedures for the application for authorisation and its examination by the group controller referred to in Articles R. 356-20 and R. 356-20-1 are specified in Articles 347, 348 and 349 of Commiss…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of asset freezing orders issued by foreign authorities

Article 695-9-20

…der in criminal proceedings;3° Where the freezing order is made with a view to the subsequent confiscation of property and that property is already the subject of a freezing or seizure order in the co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Rights of the holder of the pharmaceutical dossier

Article R1111-20-7

…ients of the information relating to the exercise of this right. Where the holder of the pharmaceutical record is a minor and is being treated without the consent of his legal representative under the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20-2

…dged and unchanged retransmission referred to in articles L. 132-20-1 and L. 132-20-3.Failing an amicable agreement, the Mediator may propose to the parties the solution he considers appropriate, whic…

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