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Showing 22612270 of 46132 articles for Art. 7 December 2000 · Cass. 1re civ. 3 July 2001

French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Special provisions relating to the digital exploitation of unavailable books

Article L134-7

…g this chapter, in particular the procedures for accessing the database provided for in Article L. 134-2, the nature and format of the data collected and the most appropriate publicity measures to gua…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Protests.

Article R511-7

…f the person in whose favour the bill or cheque was created, or the drawer of the bill of exchange; 3° The surname, first names, or company or business name, profession and domicile of the subscriber…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Written agreements

Article L441-7

…rticular the indicators relating to production costs in agriculture mentioned in III of article L. 631-24 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code. The distributor may ask the manufacturer to appoint an…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Conditions

Article L434-7

…rance, accommodation considered normal for a comparable family living in the same geographical area;3° He or she complies with the essential principles which, in accordance with the laws of the Republ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-16

…erson. Such consultation is mandatory in cases other than those referred to in 1° and 2° of Article 728-11.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions.

Article L2281-7

If the employer fails to take the initiative within a period of one year in the event of an agreement, or three years in the absence of an agreement, negotiations must begin at the request of a repres…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Mediation procedure.

Article L2523-7

If the mediation attempt fails and after the expiry of a period of forty-eight hours from the date on which the disagreement was established, the mediator shall send the Minister responsible for labou…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Availability of consultation documents

Article R3122-7

The consultation documents consist of all the documents provided by the conceding authority or to which it refers, in order to define the subject, the technical and functional specifications, the cond…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
d: Special schemes for agriculture

Article 707 bis

…of a purchaser, the exercise of the right of pre-emption instituted by articles L. 412-1 to L. 412-13 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, relating to the status of tenant farming and sharecropping…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 771-2

…ur punishable by a prison sentence received in the criminal record pursuant to 1° and 8° of Article 768, including in the cases provided for in Article 771, the automated national criminal record regi…

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