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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article R712-10

Any filing shall give rise to verification by the Institute: 1° That the application for registration and the documents annexed thereto comply with the requirements of the laws and regulations in forc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL

Article L3221-9

The President of the Departmental Council exercises the powers devolved to him by the Social Action and Family Code in matters of social action. With a view to exercising the powers defined by article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Organisation and operation

Article R1123-11

In order to be valid, the deliberations of the Committee require the presence of at least five members, at least two of whom belong to the first college mentioned in article R. 1123-4, comprising at l…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Monthly statement of employment contracts

Article D1221-30

…b and qualifications of the employees whose employment contracts have been concluded or terminated; 4° The effective date of the employment contracts or their termination with, in the event of redunda…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6241-19

Employers liable for the apprenticeship tax pay the balance referred to in II of article L. 6241-2 on the basis of the same base as that of the main part, collected in the year preceding that in which…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Model agency authorisation and operating conditions

Article R7124-15

An approved modelling agency that hires a child must provide the child and the child's legal representatives with an explanatory notice, in return for a receipt, specifying: 1 How the agency operates;…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Experimentation

Article R5121-15

…rietary names where they exist or, failing this, the names of the European or French pharmacopoeia; 4° In the case of a placebo, its composition; 5° The information that will be given, in application…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-18

…raceability requirements laid down in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 as regards food of animal origin; 4° The provisions of Articles 1, 2 and 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 931/2011 of 1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Local authorities

Article L2221-4

…if the municipal council or the syndicate committee has so decided; 3° Or financial autonomy alone.4° Either legal personality and financial autonomy, if the municipal council or the syndicate commit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article L518-4

…or economic affairs; 3° One member of the standing committee of the Senate responsible for finance; 4° One member of the standing committee of the Senate responsible for economic affairs; 5° A represe…

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