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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Investigation, authorisation, refusal, renewal

Article R5121-74-4

I.-The compassionate access authorisation may be renewed. Renewal is the subject of a request from the holder of this authorisation addressed to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurit…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-14-1

Article 706-14 is applicable to any person who is the victim of the destruction by fire of a terrestrial motor vehicle belonging to him or her and who can prove at the time of the events that he or sh…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Registration

Article D822-7-1

Applicants for the preparatory certificate for the duties of statutory auditor, for the certificate of aptitude for the duties of statutory auditor, as well as for the aptitude test mentioned in artic…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-2

Any practice of prescribing a medicinal product outside the scope of its marketing authorisation may be reported by electronic means to the Director General of the Agency, to enable him to assess the…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Automated processing of personal data known as "Therapeutic Use Exemptions for Sportsmen and Sportswomen".

Article R232-85-7

I.-The data mentioned in article R. 232-85-4 is communicated to the World Anti-Doping Agency. II.The following have access to this data with the consent of the French Anti-Doping Agency: 1° An interna…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and college of supervisors

Article R613-3-7

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall communicate to the parent undertaking in the European Union and in the other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, to…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Local bodies

Article R6147-7-2

The Chairman of the Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris Institutional Medical Committee may delegate all or some of the following powers to the Chairman of the local Institutional Medical Committee…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XV: Prosecution, investigation and trial of acts of terrorism

Article 706-16-1

When brought before the criminal courts, a civil action relating to an offence that constitutes an act of terrorism may only have as its object the initiation of public proceedings or the support of s…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-14-2

Any natural person who has suffered loss as a result of acts, whether intentional or not, committed abroad, which are likely to fall within the jurisdiction of a criminal court having, pursuant to the…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Funding bodies

Article D214-240-7

The former specialised finance fund, which retains the assets whose disposal would not be in the interests of investors pursuant to Article L. 214-190-3-1, and the new specialised finance fund have th…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
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