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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-3

The Regional Health Agency concludes the multiannual contracts for objectives and resources provided for in Article L. 6114-1. It may, with the participation of local and regional authorities, enter i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other provisions

Article L632-15

…financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or legal persons, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may, outside the framework of the agreements referred to in…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Tax on seasonal self-employed business activities.

Article L422-11

The rules relating to the tax on seasonal self-employed business activities are set out in articles L. 2333-88 to L. 2333-90 of the General Local Authorities Code, which are reproduced below: "Art. L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use.

Article L5138-4

When, as part of its inspection powers, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé finds that the manufacture or repackaging and relabelling for distribution of raw materi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-9

…m the Committee prior to its implementation and, in the case of research mentioned in 1° of Article L. 1121-1, authorisation from the competent authority. In this case, the Committee ensures that a ne…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Organisation of certain film screenings

Article L214-6

The screenings referred to in 6° of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Inspection.

Article L5146-4

The agents mentioned in 1° of Articles L. 5146-1 and L. 5146-2 shall be appointed by the Director General of the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety from among Agenc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Financing of paid work placements by the State or the region.

Article L6341-3

The training courses for which the regions provide funding for the remuneration of trainees, when they are following a training course approved under the conditions laid down in article L. 6341-4, are…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Community Designs

Article L515-2

The executory clause provided for in Article 71(2) of the Regulation referred to in Article L. 515-1 shall be affixed by the Institut national de la propriété industrielle.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article L612-11

The Director of the Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall examine the compliance of patent applications with the legislative and regulatory provisions mentioned in Article L. 612-12.

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