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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Formation with a public offer other than one of those mentioned in 1° or 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or in Article L. 411-2-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code.

Article L225-11

Withdrawal of funds from cash subscriptions may not be made by the company's agent until the company has been registered in the Trade and Companies Register. If the company is not incorporated within…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L132-11

The publisher is obliged to carry out or have carried out the manufacture or production in digital form under the conditions, in the form and according to the modes of expression provided for in the c…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Contracts between a performer and a phonogram producer

Article L212-11

…ts transferred is the subject of a separate mention in the contract concluded with the phonogram producer and that the field of exploitation of these rights is delimited as to its extent and destinati…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Technical protection and information measures

Article L331-11

…down in this title, when one of the items of information, numbers or codes is attached to the reproduction or appears in connection with the communication to the public of the work, interpretation, p…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Management, administrative and executive bodies

Article L323-11

…al regulations of collective management undertakings provide for administrative and accounting procedures to ensure effective internal control of the members of the administrative body and the legal r…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Management of income from the exploitation of rights

Article L324-11

Collective management organisations invest income from the exploitation of rights and income resulting from the investment of such income in accordance with the general investment and risk management…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Control by the Minister for Culture

Article L326-11

The Minister responsible for culture may, at any time, refer the matter to the commission de contrôle des organismes de gestion des droits d'auteur et des droits voisins when its observations aimed at…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-11

In all matters and for all services mentioned in article L. 422-1, the industrial property attorney shall observe professional secrecy. This secrecy extends to consultations addressed or intended for…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Scope of protection

Article L511-11

Subject to the provisions of international conventions to which France is a party, a foreigner who is neither established nor domiciled in the territory of a Member State of the European Community or…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Refusal and subordination of sales and services

Article L121-11

It is prohibited to refuse a consumer the sale of a product or the provision of a service, unless there is a legitimate reason for doing so; It is also prohibited to make the sale of a product conditi…

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