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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Investor information

Article L214-23-1

The Autorité des marchés financiers defines the conditions under which UCITS must inform their subscribers and may be advertised, in particular by audiovisual means, or canvassed.The articles of assoc…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-23-1

The insurance company has a period of fifteen days, after receiving notice of the death and becoming aware of the beneficiary's details, or at the end of the term of the contract, to ask the beneficia…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Exercise of the right of recourse

Article R212-7-23

For each appeal lodged, the chairman of the Commission nationale d'aménagement cinématographique informs the prefect that the appeal has been lodged.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board

Article L22-10-23

…o any controlled company or company that controls it within the meaning of II and III of Article L. 233-16, the provisions of said contract corresponding, where applicable, to items of remuneration, c…

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

Article L613-23-6

The revocation decision has absolute effect. The effects of decisions ruling on opposition are retroactive to the filing date of the patent application. Where a decision on opposition partially revoke…

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

Article L613-23-5

Each of the parties to the opposition proceedings shall bear the costs it has incurred, unless the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property decides on a different apportionmen…

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

Article L613-23-2

The Director General of the Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall decide on the opposition after an adversarial procedure including an examination phase, under the conditions defined by…

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

Article L613-23-1

Opposition may only be based on one or more of the following grounds: 1° The subject matter of the patent is not patentable under the terms of Articles L. 611-10, L. 611-11 and L. 611-13 to L. 611-19;…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Rights and obligations attached to plant variety certificates

Article L623-23-1

…he date on which it was granted the variety did not satisfy the conditions mentioned in Article L. 623-2.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Payroll tax

Article 231 bis U

The remuneration paid by the industrial technical centres mentioned in article L. 521-1 of the research code is exempt from payroll tax.

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