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

Article R623-44

With regard to applications for plant variety certificates for varieties belonging to species included in the list established by order made pursuant to article L. 623-9, the procedures provided for b…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: STAYING IN A WAITING AREA

Article R342-4

The application and the documents attached to it are made available to the foreign national's lawyer as soon as they arrive at the court registry. They may also be consulted there, before the opening…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Organisation

Article L4422-45

I. - The transfers of assets between the State and the territorial collectivity of Corsica provided for in III of Article L. 4424-7 and to articles L. 4424-22, L. 4424-23, L. 4424-24 and L. 4424-25 of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Crisis prevention and management measures

Article A311-4

The preventive resolution plans referred to in article L. 311-8 shall include, quantifying them wherever necessary and possible, the following elements: 1° A description of the legal and organisationa…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Specific insurance accounting policies and valuations

Article A343-4

A permanent inventory of investments must be kept under the following conditions: a) Entries and withdrawals of investments must be recorded therein, independently of their entry in the accounts, no l…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Expenditure chargeable to the balance of the apprenticeship tax

Article L6241-4

Employers may deduct from the balance of the apprenticeship tax, up to the amount mentioned in II of article L. 6241-2: 1° Expenditure actually incurred to finance the development of initial technolog…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IX: Overseas provisions.

Article L960-4

For the application to Saint-Martin of Title IX of Book VI, the words: "specially designated commercial court" are replaced by the words: "territorially competent commercial court". Article L. 721-8 s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Penal provisions.

Article R247-4

Any breach of the provisions of Article R. 237-1 is punishable by the fine provided for in 5° of l'article 131-13 du code pénal pour les contraventions de la cinquième classe.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIa: Socio-judicial supervision

Article R61-4

When the sentenced person is detained, the reminder of the obligations to which he or she is subject and which is provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 61 is made, in the days preceding hi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article R131-41

Applications submitted under article R. 131-40 must specify : 1° Where it concerns a natural person, his surname, forenames, date and place of birth and, where applicable, the surname used ; 2° If it…

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