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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Protection and promotion of maternal and child health

Article R2421-1

I.-Articles R. 2132-1 and R. 2132-2 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna, in the version resulting from Decree no. 2021-613 of 18 May 2021, and subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III.II.…

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

Article R356-17

…order to calculate the group solvency of an undertaking mentioned in the first paragraph of Article R. 356-8 which is a participating undertaking in a credit institution, investment firm or financial…

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

Article R356-18

Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in its capacity as group supervisor does not have the information necessary to calculate the group solvency of an undertaking mentioned in th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the appointment and training of citizen assessors

Article R2-11

…president of the judicial tribunal decide by order on the distribution of the service of hearings between the citizen assessors. For each hearing, at least two substitute citizen assessors are appoin…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Administrative approval

Article R382-1

Articles R. 321-4, R. 321-4-1, R. 321-17, R. 321-18 and R. 321-22 apply to the authorisation of supplementary occupational pension funds.For the application of these provisions, the reference to artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Role of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé.

Article R5121-155

…the drug dependence and addictovigilance assessment and information centres referred to in article R. 5132-112 and the poison control centres referred to in article L. 6141-4 to provide him with any…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII ter: Arrangements for placement under mobile electronic surveillance as a security measure

Article R61-12

…processing, as well as the possibilities of interconnection or linking with other processing, are determined by the provisions of the articles R. 544-18 et seq. of the same code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Ionising radiation.

Article R1337-11

Officers appointed as radiation protection inspectors pursuant to articles R. 1333-168 and R. 1333-169 may be authorised, by the administrative authority that is entitled to appoint them, to investiga…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Distribution and supply of labile blood products

Article R1221-18

…epot are carried out by a single blood establishment, known as the "referent blood establishment", determined in application of the blood transfusion organisation plan drawn up under the conditions la…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article R171-1

The parties to the contract may not disregard the provisions of articles R. 172-5, R. 172-6 and R. 175-1.

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