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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Filing of applications for plant variety certificates.

Article R623-11

…the filing does not include the aforementioned documents, the application is declared inadmissible and returned to the applicant; any fees paid are refunded. In the event of formal irregularities, th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Filing of applications for plant variety certificates.

Article R623-13

…iety certificate is given to the applicant at the time of filing, bearing a visa certifying the day and time of filing of the application and including a registration number.Where the filing is made b…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Filing of applications for plant variety certificates.

Article R623-15

…rectification of material errors found in the documents filed. The request must be made in writing and include the text of the amendments proposed by the applicant. It is entered in the Register of a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for the formation of the contract.

Article L6222-1

No one may be taken on as an apprentice unless they are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-nine at the start of the apprenticeship.However, young people aged at least fifteen may begin an apprenti…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Compulsory prior administrative appeal

Article R2333-120-13

The mandatory prior administrative appeal provided for in VI of article L. 2333-87 is exercised, within a period of one month from the date of notification of the payment notice for the parking charge…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Preferential allocations.

Article 832-1

If maintenance in undivided ownership has not been ordered and in the absence of preferential attribution in ownership under the conditions provided for in article 831 or article 832, the surviving sp…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Preferential allocations.

Article 831-1

…viving spouse nor any co-owner heir requests the application of the provisions set out in article 831 or those of articles 832 or 832-1, the preferential allotment provided for in agricultural matters…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1146

The divorce agreement and its annexes shall be sent to the notary, at the request of the parties, by the most diligent lawyer, for filing in the notary's minutes, within seven days of the date on whic…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1144

The information provided for in 1° of Article 229-2 of the Civil Code takes the form of a form for each of the minor children, which mentions their right to ask to be heard under the conditions of Art…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1147

A mention of the divorce is made in the margin of the marriage certificate and the birth certificate of each of the spouses, at the request of the interested party or his or her lawyer, on the basis o…

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