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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: General provisions.

Article L410-6

I. - On an experimental basis and for a period of five years from 1 July 2017, in the Department of Mayotte and French Guiana, following a public opinion from the territorially competent observatory o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The judgment adopting the plan and the implementation of the plan.

Article L626-14

In the judgment adopting the plan or amending it, the court may decide that assets that it considers essential to the continuation of the business may not be disposed of, for a period that it fixes, w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Prevention of business difficulties, ad hoc mandates and conciliation procedures

Article L611-14

After having obtained the agreement of the debtor and, in the event of recourse to conciliation and to an agent for the execution of the agreement, the opinion of the public prosecutor under the condi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Assignment of the debtor's assets.

Article L642-20

Asset transfers carried out pursuant to Articles L. 642-18 and L. 642-19 are subject to the prohibitions set out in the first paragraph of Article L. 642-3. However, the juge-commissaire may, at the r…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Appeals against decisions by the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority

Article R331-49

Where the appeal is likely to affect the rights or obligations of other persons who were parties to the proceedings before the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique, su…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Appeals against decisions by the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority

Article R331-47

Within five days of the filing of his statement, the author of the appeal must, on pain of the latter being declared null and void ex officio, send, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receip…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the Court of Appeal against decisions of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-32

The defendant to a cross-appeal shall have a period of three months from the date on which he was notified of the application to intervene, failing which he shall be deemed inadmissible.The intervener…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Joint representation action

Article R622-2

The power of attorney shall be in writing. It shall expressly state its purpose and confer on the approved national consumer association the power to carry out all procedural acts on behalf of the con…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Procedures before committees

Article R712-19

When the overindebtedness commission sends a letter by ordinary post, it may also send it by fax or electronically. In this case, the technical process used must ensure the authentication of the sende…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Special schemes for trade and industry

Article 700

During the period when operations remain provisionally under the legal quarrying regime, pursuant to article L. 312-4 or the second paragraph of article L. 312-11 of the French Mining Code concerning…

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