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Showing 141150 of 61016 articles for Art. CE 9-5-2019 n° 426431 and 426434

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Psychotropic substances and preparations

Article R5132-92

…drugs without a special authorisation issued for each operation by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé. This authorisation is issued under…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Psychotropic substances and preparations

Article R5132-94

Persons engaged in national and international trade are required to draw up an annual summary statement indicating for each psychotropic substance or medicinal product containing it: 1° The quantities…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Psychotropic substances and preparations

Article R5132-96

The managers of the establishments mentioned in articles L. 5124-2 and L. 5142-1 carrying out operations relating to medicinal products containing one or more psychotropic substances are subject to th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Minimum working hours and overtime

Article L3123-9

Overtime may not have the effect of increasing the working time of a part-time employee to the level of the legal working time or, if it is lower, to the level of the working time set by agreement.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Aid for sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption

Article R1435-9-9

…request, from aid in the event of incapacity due to illness, calculated on a flat-rate daily basis and equal to one thirtieth of half of the maximum amount of additional remuneration received in appl…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Coverage of cash requirements and investment financing

Article 916-17

For small and medium-sized cinemas, the total amount of aid is equivalent to the average of the sums entered for 2017, 2018 and 2019 in the automatic account opened for each cinema in accordance with…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Indexation of duty and standby allowances.

Article D6153-92

The amount of the allowances for medical on-call duty and standby duty carried out in public health establishments by members of the medical staff, junior doctors, interns and hospital students design…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 9: Contracts for the purchase of precious metals

Article L224-98

The contract provided for in article L. 224-97 includes the following information: 1° The full name and address of the professional purchaser or, in the case of a legal entity, its company name and th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 9: Contracts for the purchase of precious metals

Article L224-96

…gold, silver or platinum, in any form whatsoever, from consumers shall indicate, by display, the prices offered, in accordance with the procedures laid down by order of the minister responsible for th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 9: Contracts for the purchase of precious metals

Article L224-99

…l terminates the obligations of the parties. The consumer must then reimburse the trader for the price received and, in return, the trader must return the item(s) purchased. If the consumer fails to r…

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