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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: National Design Litigation

Article L521-11

Natural persons guilty of the offence provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 521-10 may also be ordered, at their own expense, to remove from commercial channels the objects deemed to be in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Misleading commercial practices

Article L132-8

The cessation of the misleading commercial practice may be ordered by the investigating judge or by the court hearing the case, either at the request of the public prosecutor or ex officio. The measur…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Interpreters and translators

Article L141-3

…sion must be communicated to a foreign national in a language that he understands, this information may be provided either by means of forms written in this language or through an interpreter. The int…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Experimentation

Article LO1113-1

…ng the exercise of their powers, shall define the purpose of the experiment and its duration, which may not exceed five years, and shall mention the provisions from which derogation may be made.The la…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section II: Default judgments and judgments deemed to be contradictory.

Article 471

A defendant who does not appear may, on the initiative of the plaintiff or on a decision taken ex officio by the judge, be invited to appear again if the summons was not delivered in person. Subject t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal protection

Article 437

If there is reason to act outside the cases defined in Article 436, any interested party may give notice to the judge. The judge may appoint a special representative, under the conditions and in accor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Interrogations and confrontations

Article 120

…ations and hearings. The public prosecutor and the lawyers for the parties and the assisted witness may ask questions or make brief observations. The investigating judge determines, if necessary, the…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: Insurance obligation

Article L321-6

…icy underwritten by the federation, it is obliged : 1° Formulate this proposal in a document, which may or may not be separate from the licence application, which mentions the cost of membership, spec…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-2

The investigators of the French Anti-Doping Agency may have recourse, for the purposes of an ongoing investigation, to experts registered on a list of legal experts, to the persons mentioned in articl…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Checking and recording offences

Article L425-3

The persons referred to in article L. 425-2 who are qualified doctors may carry out clinical medical examinations and take biological samples intended to reveal the use of prohibited methods or to det…

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