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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Rights conferred by registration

Article L513-3

Any act modifying or transmitting the rights attached to a registered design may only be relied on as against third parties if it has been entered in the National Designs Register.However, before it h…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Successive contracts in the same position.

Article L1244-3

…term employment contract expires, neither a fixed-term contract nor a temporary employment contract may be used to fill the position of the employee whose contract has expired, before the expiry of a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-3

…ormation are required, under the conditions and subject to the penalties laid down in articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Penal Code, to keep secret any information which may come to their knowle…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Programming commitments subject to approval

Article R212-39

…examine the implementation of the programming commitments mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L. 212-23, the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée refers the matter to the Film…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 1: Apprehension in the hands of the person liable to surrender

Article R222-3

The property may also be apprehended immediately, without prior command and on presentation of the writ of execution alone if the person required to surrender it is present and if, on being asked by t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVII: Prosecution, investigation and judgment of offences relating to trafficking in human beings, procuring or the use of prostitution of minors

Article 706-35

For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences referred to in Article 706-34, the visits, searches and seizures provided for in Article 59 may be carried out at any time of the day or…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Investment for the preparation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-72

…rior authorisation.Failing this, the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée may decide, depending on the progress of the project and the proof of expenditure provided by the pr…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Production aid

Article 322-24

The total amount of aid for video game production may not exceed 50% of the expenditure referred to in article…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Penalties.

Article L522-38

…of this prohibition is punishable by a fine of 6,000 euros and imprisonment for one year.The court may order that the sentencing judgment be published in full or in extracts in the newspapers it desi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Settlement of certain claims.

Article L643-3

The juge-commissaire may, ex officio or at the request of the liquidator or a creditor, order provisional payment of a share of a claim that has been definitively admitted. This provisional payment ma…

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