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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Principles.

Article L3132-3-1

A jobseeker's refusal to accept a job offer involving Sunday work is not grounds for removal from the list of jobseekers.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-5-1

…mpany which owns more than half the capital of another company within the meaning of Article L. 233-1, which has a holding within the meaning of Article L. 233-2 or which exercises control over a comp…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Status of commercial court judges

Article L722-6-1

The office of commercial court judge is incompatible with the exercise of an office of labour councillor, an office of president of a public establishment in the network of chambers of commerce and in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Common provisions

Article R514-5-1

All correspondence or documents relating to proceedings before the National Institute of Industrial Property provided for in this Book shall be filed at the registered office of the Institute or shall…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article R613-44-12

The opposition procedure is closed: 1° When all opponents have withdrawn their opposition; 2° If the patent has been declared invalid by a final and binding court decision; > 3° If the proprietor of t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article R613-44-11

Where opposition proceedings are suspended pursuant to the provisions of 1° of Article R. 613-44-10, they shall be resumed at the request of one of the parties forwarding to the National Institute of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article R613-44-1

…ecision of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property. It shall include: 1° the identity of the opposing party; 2° The references of the patent against which the opposition…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article R613-44-10

The prosecution phase or the time limit laid down in the first paragraph of Article R. 613-44-8 shall be suspended: 1° At the written request of any person establishing that an action to claim ownersh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Provisions specific to the City of Paris

Article L2512-9-1

The transfer of powers between the City of Paris and its public establishments entails the transfer of the department or part of the department responsible for its implementation. The civil servants a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Asset management

Article L3213-2-1

When the départements, their groupings and their public establishments make amicable property acquisitions in accordance with the rules of civil law, or when the acquisition takes place by auction, th…

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