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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation and resources

Article R1233-22

…e chairman, after consulting the staff representatives, shall draw up a single set of rules of procedure for the administrative social committee and its specialised committees. These rules are drawn u…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments and organisations

Article R1243-22

The authorised establishment or body sends the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine, as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Fate of preserved gametes and germ tissue

Article R2141-22

A practitioner meeting the criteria mentioned in articles R. 2142-10 and R. 2142-11 working in a medical biology laboratory authorised for the activities mentioned in c and d of 2° of article R. 2142-…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Appendices

Article Annexe à l'article D. 211-2 du code de la consommation

…tation of the legal guarantee of conformity in the event of the appearance of a lack of conformity. During this period, the consumer is only required to establish the existence of the lack of conformi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Rules applicable to the assignment and recovery of receivables and the preservation of assets.

Article D214-228

…ent, including an existing account opened in the name of any entity responsible for collecting sums due to or benefiting directly or indirectly the fund. The specially allocated nature of this account…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Rules applicable to the assignment and recovery of receivables and the preservation of assets.

Article D214-227

…ions of articles L. 214-169 to L. 214-175; 3° The name of the assignee; 4° The designation or individualisation of the assigned receivables or the elements likely to provide this, for example an indic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R1221-22

…ned, are threatening or may threaten the health of donors or recipients, in order to eliminate or reduce the associated risks. Haemovigilance is a component of transfusion safety. It involves, for any…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 5 : Groupings, agreements and commitments and commitments

Article L212-22

The purpose of film programming commitments is to ensure the diversity of film offerings and the widest possible distribution of cinematographic works in the public interest.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2 : Obligations relating to the issue of a cinema licence

Article R211-22

When a work or a document for which the cinematographic licence includes a specific ban on representation is published in the form of a videogram intended for private use by the public, this fact must…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Issue of approval

Article R212-22

…on for approval of a programming group or agreement is sent to the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée.This application must be accompanied by:1° The group's articles of as…

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