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

Article R322-4

When a company carries out one or more of the branches or sub-branches mentioned in article R. 321-1 in one of the territories of New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the French…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L237-4

No person may be appointed as liquidator who is prohibited from holding the office of chief executive officer, director, company manager or member of the management or supervisory board, or who has fo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of liability

Article L481-4

The direct or indirect purchaser, whether of goods or services, is deemed not to have passed on the extra cost to its direct contractors, unless the defendant, the perpetrator of the anti-competitive…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Departmental commercial development commissions.

Article L751-4

The conditions under which the members of the commission are appointed and the procedures for its operation are laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Entry on the list of persons qualified in industrial property matters

Article R421-4

…ualified in industrial property may be that of patents for invention or that of trademarks, designs and models, on the basis of professional practice, supplemented, where appropriate, by that of engin…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Referral to the civil or administrative courts

Article L524-4

When the administrative authority responsible for competition and consumer affairs asks the civil court to order one of the measures mentioned in this chapter, it may also ask the court seised to orde…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Work placement periods.

Article L5135-4

…rience is provided, the body responsible for prescribing the measure as referred to in article L. 5135-2 and the support structure, where this is separate from the body responsible for prescribing the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R237-4

In the case provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 237-5, a decision shall be made, in summary proceedings, by the president of the judicial court of the place where the property is locate…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIIa: The national platform for judicial interception

Article R40-42

…ata known as: "plate-forme nationale des interceptions judiciaires (PNIJ)" provided for by Article 230-45, placed under the responsibility of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIIa: The national platform for judicial interception

Article R40-45

In accordance with the provisions of articles R. 15-33-67 to R. 15-33-75, the platform shall transmit, to the category of bodies mentioned in 1° of Article R. 15-33-68, requisitions drawn up by magist…

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