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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Suspension and prohibition of enforcement proceedings and assignment of remuneration

Article L722-3

Proceedings and assignments of remuneration shall be suspended or prohibited, depending on the case, until approval of the conventional recovery plan provided for in Article L. 732-1, until the decisi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Professional secrecy

Article L511-34

Companies established in France which are part of a financial group or a group comprising at least one finance company or, for the application of 2° of this article, a group within the meaning of arti…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section 1a: Documents countersigned by lawyers

Article 1546-3

A deed of procedure countersigned by a lawyer is drawn up jointly by the lawyers of the parties to a dispute which may or may not have given rise to referral to a court, outside or as part of a partic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors

Article R7345-3

…ose for which it delegates responsibility to the Executive Director of the institution; 8° legal proceedings and settlements; 9° the acceptance or refusal of gifts and legacies. II - The Board of Dire…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Organisation of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-3

…y order of the minister responsible for industrial property for a period of three years renewable once; 2° The director of civil affairs and the seal at the ministry of justice or his representative ;…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Implementation of financial penalties

Article R1435-37

…s carried out in application of the provisions of Article L. 1435-7, the results of audits or evidence of breaches of Articles L. 5472-1 and L. 5472-2, the Director General of the Regional Health Agen…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Conciliation procedure.

Article R611-35

…r referred to in these provisions before the president of the court that opened the conciliation proceedings. The president of the court shall rule on the time limits in accordance with the accelerate…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: National protocols

Article L4011-3

…al cooperation. It proposes a list of national protocols to be drawn up and deployed throughout France, supports healthcare professionals in developing these protocols and their economic model, and is…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Single chapter: Deception

Article L441-3

…cluding software, by which a marketer aims to make it impossible to repair or recondition an appliance or to limit the restoration of the full functionality of such an appliance outside its approved c…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Flat-rate contribution from employers who have employed an illegal foreign national

Article L822-3

…orised to work, in article L. 822-2 of this Code and article L. 8253-1 of the Labour Code may not exceed the amount of the criminal penalties provided for in articles L. 8256-2, L. 8256-7 and L. 8256-…

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