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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of dental surgeons.

Article R4127-211

Dentists must treat all their patients with the same conscience, regardless of their origin, morals and family situation, their membership or non-membership of a particular ethnic group, nation or rel…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of dental surgeons.

Article R4127-215

The profession of dental surgeon should not be practised like a business.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of dental surgeons.

Article R4127-212

Dentists must not abandon their patients in the event of public danger, unless formally ordered to do so in writing by the competent authorities.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of dental surgeons.

Article R4127-219

When a dental surgeon sets up practice or changes his or her practice, he or she may publish advertisements in any medium, taking into account the recommendations issued by the Conseil national de l'o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-section 5: Operation of the adversarial expert appraisal.

Article R5127-21

…e alleged perpetrator of the fraud or falsification that he or she may obtain the laboratory report and that he or she has three clear days in which to present his or her observations and to state whe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-209-2

…f shares for which it authorises the acquisition, the price or the procedures for setting the price and the duration of the authorisation, which may not exceed twelve months. It may authorise the Boar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-21

The measures mentioned in articles 712-5,712-6 and 712-7, with the exception of reductions in sentence not leading to immediate release and escorted leave authorisations, may not be granted without a…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Implementation of the legal guarantee of conformity

Article L224-25-21

…proportional to the difference between the value of the digital content or digital service provided and the value of this digital content or digital service in the absence of the lack of conformity.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R4113-21

…dertakings provided for therein, one or more members practising their profession within the company and these members do not withdraw from the company, and if the other members fail, under the conditi…

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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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