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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Responsibilities

Article R1233-17

The

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Mission to encourage the development of legal supply and to monitor the lawful and unlawful use of works and objects protected by copyright or neighbouring rights on electronic communications networks

Article L331-17

…t on the development of the legal offer in the report mentioned in article 18 of law no. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication.It shall identify and study the technical methods enab…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Technical protection and information measures

Article L331-9

…the first paragraph under the conditions defined by the articles 42 and 48-1 of Law no. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication.When a distributor of a radio or television service ma…

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

Article R212-36

…R. 212-30 has not sent its proposals within two months of notification or where…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 919-115

…xceptional aid and the subsidies received by the foreign sales company under decree no. 2020-371 of 30 March 2020 relating to the solidarity fund for companies particularly affected by the economic, f…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article R2336-11

…s member communes on the basis of the tax integration coefficient defined in III of article L. 5211-30, and then between the member communes on the basis of their population.By decision taken within t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Content and duration of judicial supervision

Article D147-37

In accordance with the provisions of the last paragraph of Article 723-30, judicial supervision includes the obligation to comply with the treatment order provided for by Article 131-36-4 of the Crimi…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Sectoral global markets

Article L2171-6

I. - Société du Grand Paris may award an overall contract to an economic operator for all or part of the design, construction and development of the infrastructure of the Greater Paris public transpor…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Invalidity of the trade mark

Article L716-2-3

The following are inadmissible: 1° An application for a declaration of invalidity brought by the proprietor of an earlier trade mark which has been registered for more than five years at the date of t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-16

Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution has determined that the conditions set out in Article L. 517-13 are not fulfilled or have ceased to be fulfilled in order to ensure or restor…

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