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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Misleading commercial practices

Article L121-3

…from the context.Where the means of communication used imposes space or time limits, in assessing whether material information has been omitted, account should be taken of those limits as well as of a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medically assisted procreation with third-party donors

Article 342-13

Any person who, having consented to medically assisted procreation, does not recognise the resulting child is liable to both the mother and the child. In addition, his paternity is judicially declared…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Commercial authorisation.

Article L752-3

I. - Shops which are brought together on the same site and which: 1° Either have been designed as part of the same land development operation, whether this is carried out in one or more phases; 2° Or…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Transfer of the registered office.

Article R229-3

…authorised to receive legal announcements in the department of the registered office and in the Bulletin des annonces légales obligatoires when the company's shares are admitted to trading on a regula…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction.

Article R321-33

I.-The advertisement provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 321-11 shall specify at least the date and place of the planned sale, the name of the voluntary sales operator and the date of it…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article D8-3

…ral services or offices under the authority of the national police, the head of the service of the detachment of the national police to the national directorate of intelligence and customs investigati…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Reimbursement of unemployment benefit

Article R1235-3

I.-If the formal notice remains without effect at the end of a period of one month from the date of its notification, the Director General of Pôle emploi may issue the constraint provided for in Artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Role of blood transfusion establishments.

Article R1221-36

…o whom the unit was administered or, where applicable, the date on which the unit was destroyed or returned to the blood establishment. III - Each blood establishment sends the National Public Health…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Radon management in establishments open to the public

Article R1333-33

…nd 2, when the results of existing measurements in these establishments exceed the reference level set in article R. 1333-28.II - Radon volumetric activity measurements are carried out by organisation…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Remuneration of the administrator, the administrator responsible for the implementation of the plan, the mandataire judiciaire and the liquidator

Article R663-34

…s R. 663-13 and R. 663-31, the president of the court or his delegate shall rule in the light of a detailed account. Where the proceedings fall within the jurisdiction of the judicial court, the presi…

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