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Showing 71617170 of 8385 articles for Art. CE 26-11-1982 n° 30956

French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L811-2-4

…fringement action shall be brought by the owner of the patent. Unless otherwise stipulated in the licence contract, it is also open to the holder of an exclusive licence on condition, on pain of inadm…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-12

…rs shall not impose more restrictive limits than those provided for in Article L. 420-11, unless, exceptionally, such limits are objectively justified and proportionate having regard to the liquidity…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L512-69

Crédit maritime mutuel is provided by four categories of credit institutions affiliated to the central body for savings banks and popular banks: 1. Regional caisses de crédit maritime mutuel ; 2. Unio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Transmission of information

Article L561-31-2

…ormation and financial analyses available to it pursuant to II and III of this Article. It shall process such requests as quickly as possible. Requests from Europol, and the responses provided by the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic foreign promotion account

Article 721-22

…on of a website dedicated to international sales;6° Digital promotion;7° Purchase of advertising space, whatever the means of communication used, and manufacture of promotional objects;8° Use of a pre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment terms

Article L441-16

…Not complying with the terms for calculating payment periods agreed between the parties in accordance with the second, third and fourth paragraphs of I of Article L. 441-10.Subject to the same penalt…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Transparency and disclosure requirements

Article R321-15

…stment of such income, including for the purpose of providing social, cultural and educational services...; 8° The list of representation agreements concluded, specifying the names of the collective m…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: Commission des clauses abusives

Article R822-32

…ll ask the Director General of the National Consumer Institute to appoint staff from the joint services defined in Article R. 822-12 or to call upon, with the agreement of the Minister concerned, cate…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 8: Payment to finance mobility services

Article L2333-64

I. - Outside the Ile-de-France region, natural or legal persons, public or private, with the exception of non-profit-making foundations and associations recognised as being of public utility whose act…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L2411-12-2

…the municipality of all or part of the property, rights and obligations of a section may be pronounced by the State representative in the department, at the request of the municipal council in order…

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