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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Popular insurance.

Article L132-28

I.-The intermediary referred to in Article L. 511-1 shall draw up agreements with the insurance or capitalisation undertakings offering individual insurance policies with surrender values, capitalisat…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Payment of compensation.

Article L172-28

…r who has made an inaccurate claim declaration in bad faith shall forfeit the benefit of the insurance.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the implementation of a resolution measure

Article L311-28

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions for the application of this sub-section, in particular the procedures for initiating a resolution procedure.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Effects of winding-up proceedings of companies whose registered office is located within the territory of a Member State of the European Union other than France.

Article L326-28

The effects of the reorganisation measure or the opening of winding-up proceedings on a lawsuit pending in France concerning an asset or a right of which the insurance undertaking has been divested ar…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VIII: European companies

Article L322-28

…European Company (SE), by the provisions of Chapter IX of Title II of Book II of the Code de commerce and by the rules of this Code applicable to sociétés anonymes which do not conflict therewith.

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 6: Financial guarantee.

Article R211-28

The financial guarantee provided by a credit institution or an insurance company is only accepted if this institution or company has its head office in the territory of a Member State of the European…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Competitive dialogue

Article R2161-28

When it considers that the dialogue has been completed, the purchaser informs the remaining participants and invites them to submit their final tenders on the basis of the solution(s) they have presen…

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

Article L613-28

The supplementary protection certificate is invalid:-if the patent to which it relates is invalid;-if the patent to which it relates is invalid for all those parts of it corresponding to the marketing…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 7: Conditions for determining the minimum wage for still-image journalists paid on a freelance basis

Article D132-28

…images and who occasionally contribute to the production of a press title, as defined in Article L. 132-35 of the French Intellectual Property Code.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIa: Withholding of copyright tax

Article 285 bis

1. Publishers, collective rights management organisations and producers who pay the rights referred to in 2 of III of article 293 B must, except where the author has waived this arrangement pursuant t…

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