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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Delegated federations

Article L131-16-1

…ainst a player in a sports competition who has bet on one of the competitions in its discipline, is carried out: 1° By request addressed to the Autorité nationale des jeux for operations recorded by a…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-8

…efuse to give access to a document, whatever its medium, and to provide a copy, to refuse to communicate information or to respond to a summons or to refuse to give access to the premises, places or e…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions applicable to tourist offices set up as a public industrial and commercial establishment.

Article R133-13

…Director is responsible for the operation of the Office under the conditions set out in articles R. 2221-22, R. 2221-24, R. 2221-28 and R. 2221-29 of the General Local Authorities Code. Within the lim…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant breeding

Article L623-25

…Article L. 623-24-1, any wilful infringement of the rights of the holder of a plant variety certificate as defined in Article L. 623-4 constitutes an infringement for which its author is civilly liab…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Combating the international spread of disease.

Article L3115-1

…the health regulations adopted by the World Health Organisation in accordance with Articles 21 and 22 of its Constitution, international arrangements and national laws and regulations in force or to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Operations.

Article L3336-2

…de drinks outlets: 1° Persons convicted of a common crime or one of the offences listed in articles 225-5, 225-6, 225-7 and 225-10 of the Criminal Code; 2° Those who have been sentenced to at least on…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L622-8

…rresponding to the claims secured by these security interests is paid into a deposit account at the Caisse des dépôts et consignations. Once the plan has been adopted, the creditors benefiting from th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Legal proceedings

Article R615-34

…s and agents referred to in article R. 611-11 and the natural persons referred to in article R. 611-22, a special list is drawn up from which the two assessors of the chairman of the joint conciliatio…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article D314-23

Lenders and credit intermediaries shall ensure that the staff defined in article D. 314-22 fulfil the conditions of professional competence resulting from: 1° Either a diploma mentioned in the agreeme…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Indirect taxes

Article 1794

…o 10 and 21 to 33 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 of 11 December 2017 and Articles 22 to 24 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/274 of 11 December 2017. However, if the in…

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