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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules.

Article D5232-5

The provider of services and the distributor of equipment shall treat the person who is ill or suffering from an incapacity or disability with the same conscientiousness, without discrimination and wi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules.

Article D5232-6

Service providers and equipment distributors shall respect the right of persons who are ill or who have an incapacity or disability to consult the healthcare professional of their choice. They are pro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules.

Article D5232-4

The service provider and the equipment distributor act in all circumstances in the interests of the person who is ill or has an incapacity or disability. They shall respect the dignity and privacy of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules.

Article D5232-7

When the person who is ill or who has an incapacity or disability is cared for by the multidisciplinary team, the service provider and the equipment distributor will cooperate with the members of this…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules.

Article D5232-8

Service providers and equipment distributors are bound by professional secrecy. Secrecy covers not only what has been entrusted to them, but also what they have seen, read, heard, observed or understo…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Tobacco

Article 575

The weighted average retail selling price in mainland France of manufactured tobacco is calculated by product group according to the total value of all units released for consumption, based on the ret…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1636 B decies

…ast equal to either the reduction in the rate of property tax on built-up properties or that of the weighted average rate of property taxes, or to the greater of these reductions when these two rates…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Procedures for acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 788

The declaration must be made at the clerk's office of the court in whose jurisdiction the succession is opened or before a notary. It includes the election of a single domicile, which may be the domic…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 796

The heir settles the liabilities of the estate. He pays the registered creditors according to the rank of the security attaching to their claim. Other creditors who have declared their claim are paid…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 802

Despite forfeiture or revocation of acceptance up to the amount of net assets, estate creditors and legatees of sums of money retain exclusive rights of pursuit over the assets mentioned in the first…

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