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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Acquisition of Trade Mark Rights

Article R712-26

The conditions for submitting the application and the contents of the file shall be specified by decision of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property, in particular as reg…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Accounting

Article D5217-26

…orising officer of these establishments.Enforcement measures for the recovery of these products are carried out as in matters of direct taxation.However, the authorising officer authorises these enfor…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-26

Delegates of the Minister of Defence, specially empowered for this purpose and whose names and capacities have been brought to the attention of the Director of the National Institute of Industrial Pro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-subparagraph 1: Declarations for registration purposes

Article R123-261

…al form of the company and the entity by which or on behalf of which it is operated; >c) Where applicable, the date on which the company was incorporated. c) Where applicable, the date of publication…

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

Article L531-26

…Stateless Persons may, on its own initiative, rule under an accelerated procedure in the following cases:1° The applicant has presented false identity or travel documents, provided false information…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: The Professional Advisory Committee for Sport and Leisure Activities (Commission professionnelle consultative des métiers du sport et de l'animation)

Article A142-26

…the Chairman or Vice-Chairman is unable to complete his/her term of office, the original college is called upon to elect a new Chairman or Vice-Chairman for the remainder of the term of office.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to reinsurance undertakings.

Article R321-26

…rotect the interests of reinsured undertakings. Without prejudice to the implementation, where applicable, of the measures provided for in Sections 6 and 7 of Chapter II of Title I of Book VI of the M…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Designation of a registrant and a correspondent

Article R561-26

For avocats au Conseil d'Etat et à la Cour de cassation and avocats, except where they act as fiduciaries, the person responsible for responding to any request from the department referred to in Artic…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article LO6221-26

…on of information and evaluation tasked with gathering information on a matter of interest to the local authority or with carrying out an evaluation of a public service of the local authority. The sam…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article LO6321-26

…on of information and evaluation tasked with gathering information on a matter of interest to the local authority or with carrying out an evaluation of a public service of the local authority. The sam…

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