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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The Public Prosecutor's Office

Article R15-33-30

Natural persons and duly declared associations who have been authorised as delegates of the public prosecutor under the conditions laid down in this section may be designated by the latter to be entru…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to insurance undertakings.

Article R332-3-3

Provisions relating to business ceded to an insurance or reinsurance undertaking whose head office is in France or in another Member State or other State party to the Agreement on the European Economi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The Public Prosecutor's Office

Article R15-33-32

The application submitted by an association shall include in particular: 1° A copy of the Journal officiel publishing the declaration of the association or, as regards the departments of Bas-Rhin, Hau…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Subcontracting of preparations to a pharmaceutical manufacturing establishment

Article R5125-33-3

I.-The categories of magistral preparations that may be subcontracted by a dispensing pharmacy to a pharmaceutical establishment authorised to manufacture medicinal products are : 1° Preparations obta…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-31

In the case referred to in the fifth paragraph of Article L. 356-2, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution exercises general supervision over transactions between insurance or reinsuranc…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-30

The undertakings referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 356-8 or the undertakings designated in accordance with 5° of Article L. 356-15 shall notify the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Development of the innovation partnership

Article R2172-32

The purchaser may only acquire the products, services or work resulting from the research and development phases if they correspond to the performance levels and do not exceed the maximum costs provid…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Development of the innovation partnership

Article R2172-31

At the end of each phase, on the basis of the results obtained, the purchaser decides:1° Either to continue with the innovation partnership, possibly after specifying or modifying, with the agreement…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Interruption of the payment period

Article R2192-30

When the authorising officer and the public accountant do not belong to the same legal entity and have agreed on a conventional payment period under the conditions set out in Article 12 of Decree no.…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Issue and maintenance of plant variety certificates

Article R623-30

The person in charge of missions falling within the remit of the national plant variety authority is only required to keep applications for plant variety certificates for a period of ten years after t…

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