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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Cross-border transactions

Article L236-46

Cross-border division is the operation whereby a société par actions or a société à responsabilité limitée with its registered office in France participates in a division with one or more companies fa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Bills of exchange

Article L511-46

He who has repaid the bill of exchange may claim from his guarantors: 1° The full sum he has paid; 2° Interest on the said sum, calculated at the legal rate, from the day he disbursed it; 3° The costs…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I septies: Commission de contrôle des organismes de gestion des droits d'auteur et des droits voisins (Commission for the Supervision of Organisations Managing Copyright and Related Rights)

Article R321-46

Appeals against decisions made by the Enforcement Board pursuant to article L. 327-15 shall be brought, investigated and judged in accordance with the provisions of this title. The sanctioned organisa…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-46

…et numérique.The statement of appeal shall mention the list of exhibits and supporting documents produced. The exhibits and documents mentioned in the statement shall be submitted to the registry of t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-46

Companies for the liberal practice of industrial property attorneys are subject to the provisions relating to the obligations, guarantee and discipline applicable to the profession of industrial prope…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article R612-46

…ication will indicate the time limit set for the applicant to regularise his filing or pay the fees due. It may be accompanied by a proposal for regularisation. This proposal is deemed to have been ac…

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

Article R623-46

The requisition addressed to the Minister for Agriculture by the Minister for Defence for the purposes of extending the prohibitions on disclosure and free exploitation of a variety, which is the subj…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article R613-46

…fee for maintaining patent applications or patents in force, provided for in Article L. 612-19, is due for each year of the term of the patents. The filing fee covers the first annual instalment. Pay…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Ordinary powers of investigation

Article L512-46

When the sample has been taken in several samples but it has only been possible to have one sample available for the expert examination, the experts shall jointly examine the sample.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Rules specific to contracts with a particular purpose

Article D224-46

Manufacturers, importers and distributors of production shell seats shall ensure the availability of spare parts, in particular those listed as follows, for a minimum period of five years from the dat…

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