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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Authorisation of establishments taking samples.

Article L1242-2

No fee-for-service remuneration may be received by practitioners carrying out tissue and cell retrieval with a view to donation for this activity.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Swimming pools and bathing areas.

Article L1332-2

For the purposes of this chapter, a bathing water is defined as any part of surface water in which the local authority expects a large number of people to bathe and in which the competent authority ha…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cafés, public houses and pubs

Article D312-2

The rules relating to the exemptions mentioned inarticle L. 3335-4 of the Public Health Code, reproduced in article L. 313-1 of this Code, are set out in articles D. 3335-16 to D. 3335-18 of the Publi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives and means of intervention

Article L412-2

As part of their duties, the agents mentioned in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Control of video exhibition revenues

Article A222-2

For each cinematographic or audiovisual work, persons whose business is the publication of videograms intended for the private use of the public must keep an up-to-date document, in accordance with a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives and means of intervention

Article R412-2

The protocol includes a clause stipulating that the persons mentioned in…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter II: Provisions specific to certain properties

Article L162-2

The garnishee shall leave at the disposal of the individual debtor, within the limit of the credit balance of the account(s) on the day of the seizure, a maintenance sum equal to the lump sum, for a s…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter II: Provisions specific to certain properties

Article R162-2

No request from the debtor is required where the provisions of article…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Title II: ECONOMIC OPERATORS, APPLICANTS AND BIDDERS

Article L1220-2

A candidate is an economic operator who asks to take part or is invited to take part in a procedure for awarding a public procurement contract.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: State occupation and concession assets

Article L3132-2

The concession contract may grant the concessionaire rights in rem over the works and equipment it builds.These rights confer on the concessionaire the prerogatives and obligations of an owner, under…

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