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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Issue and maintenance of plant variety certificates

Article R623-48

The notifications provided for by this section and by Article L. 623-18 shall be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.Sending by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Issue and maintenance of plant variety certificates

Article R623-49

…Variety Certificates.If the owner is domiciled abroad, notification shall be made to the last agent and to the last elected domicile that he has designated to the person in charge of missions relating…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rules governing the formation and performance of certain contracts

Article R242-4

…er articles R. 242-1 to R. 242-3 is punishable in accordance with the provisions of articles 132-11 and 132-15 of the Penal Code.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Provisions specific to the communes of Marseille and Lyon

Article L2513-4

The pay and various allowances received by officers, petty officers, quartermasters and sailors belonging to the marine fire brigade and the services attached to it are determined by the regulations a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Prevention principles.

Article R4541-4

Where the need for manual handling of loads cannot be avoided, in particular due to the configuration of the premises where such handling is carried out, the employer shall take the appropriate organi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: MUNICIPAL ASSETS

Article L2243-4

…opriation of buildings, parts of buildings, private roads with a public right of way, installations and land that have been declared to be in a state of manifest abandonment may be pursued under the c…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Scope of protection

Article L342-4

The first sale of a material copy of a database in the territory of a Member State of the European Community or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, by the rightholder or w…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Provisions relating to sports betting bans

Article R131-42

…eration shall authorise one or more persons from among his staff who have the appropriate technical and legal skills to: 1° Process the data contained in the database referred to in Article R. 131-37…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Provisions relating to sports betting bans

Article R131-43

…disposal pursuant toArticle 38 of Act no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 on the opening up to competition and the regulation of online gambling.II. - La Française des jeux carries out the checks requested b…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation

Article D211-42

…Directors are performed free of charge. However, they entitle the holder to reimbursement of travel and subsistence expenses in accordance with Decree no. 2006-781 of 3 July 2006 setting the terms and…

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