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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Industrial property qualification

Article R423-1

…in the exercise of their professional activity, to comply with the rules set out in articles L. 422-8 and R. 422-52 to R. 422-54. In the event of a breach of their obligations, they are subject to the…

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

Article R714-2

…he register until the filing has been published under the conditions provided for in Article R. 712-8.

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

Article R412-43

…Articles 1 and 2, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 4, Articles 6 and 7, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 8, Article 9 and Articles 11 to 16 of Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title VI: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L764-1

…VL. 740-1 to L. 743-9L. 743-11 to L. 744-17In Title VL. 750-1L. 752-1 to L. 754-1L. 754-3 to L. 754-8

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Life insurance and capitalisation operations

Article A132-4-3

…key information document or the specific information document provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014 and Commission Delegated R…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Specific requirements for groups

Article A356-3

…ance with article R. 356-17, when an undertaking mentioned in the first paragraph of article R. 356-8 is a participating undertaking of a credit institution, an investment firm or a financial institut…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: The Trade and Companies Register

Article R123-171-1

…in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE) of 8 October 2001, in the event of the registration and deletion of a European Company, shall be drawn…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Clearance sales, unpacking sales, sales on sale and factory outlet sales.

Article R310-19

…ticle L. 310-2 and of which the declarant has been informed by the mayor pursuant to Article R. 310-8; 4° Failure to mention in any advertising relating to a sales operation the information required i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article R24-11

…yment of damages to the civil party; c) Court decision finding that the provisions of Article R. 24-8. Where a personal surety has been set up, the release of the surety results from one of the final…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Judicial police files

Article R40-24

…carry out judicial police duties.It may contain personal data of the kind mentioned in I of article 8 of the law of 6 January 1978, solely in cases where this data results from the nature or circumsta…

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