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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Receipts, warrants and storage receipts

Article L522-30

The bearer of the separate warrant receipt may, even before maturity, pay the claim secured by the warrant. If the bearer of the warrant is not known or if, being known, he does not agree with the deb…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 7: Payment.

Article L511-30

If the bill of exchange is not presented for payment on the due date, or on one of the two working days thereafter, any debtor shall be entitled to remit the amount thereof on deposit at the Caisse de…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: The company during the observation period.

Article L622-30

Mortgages, pledges and liens may no longer be registered after the opening judgment. The same applies to deeds and judicial decisions transferring or constituting rights in rem, unless these deeds hav…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Classes of affected parts.

Article L626-30

I.-Affected parties are: 1° Creditors whose rights are directly affected by the draft plan; 2° The members of the extraordinary general meeting or the shareholders' meeting, the special meetings refer…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for auditing accounts and management

Article R321-30

The annual report provided for in Article L. 327-12 sets out the findings of the supervisory board following its inspections. The observations of the supervisory board implicating an organisation are…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General procedural rules

Article R331-30

When a case is referred to the Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique pursuant to Articles L. 137-4, L. 219-4 and L. 331-29 to L. 331-31, the case shall be investigated…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the Court of Appeal against decisions of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-30

The defendant shall have, on pain of inadmissibility noted ex officio, a period of three months from the notification of the claimant's pleadings referred to in Article R. 411-29 to file his pleadings…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Professional non-trading companies

Article R422-30

In the event of the death of a partner, the transfer period provided for in the second paragraph of l'article 24 of the law of 29 November 1966 is set at one year from the date of death. It may be ren…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-30

The court seised pursuant to Article L. 612-10 rules both on the merits and before the court by decisions that do not contain any analysis of the invention of such a nature as to lead to its disclosur…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Compulsory licences in the interests of economic development

Article R613-30

A copy of the licence application is notified by the Minister responsible for industrial property to the owner of the patent and, where applicable, to the licensees of the said patent. The latter shal…

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