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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Identification and verification of customer identity

Article R561-5

…ows: 1° Where the customer is a natural person, by collecting the customer's full name, date and place of birth; 2° Where the customer is a legal entity, by collecting the legal form, name, registrati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions applicable to manufacture and import.

Article R5124-52

…tions or registration provided for in the second paragraph of Article R. 5124-49 is subject, in France, to control of the finished product when it is imported : 1° From a State that is not a member of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation

Article D211-55

…t of the French Federation of Alpine and Mountain Clubs;d) The President of the Union nationale des centres sportifs de plein air;3° Two representatives of mountain sports professionals:a) The preside…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Support for projects

Article 633-5

…mount of aid granted to carry out a project complies, depending on the nature of the expenditure concerned, with the intensity rates provided for in Article 17(6), Article 18(2), Article 19(3), Articl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4a: The Chamber of Territories

Article D4422-30-7

…to death, resignation or loss of the capacity in respect of which they were elected, by their replacement for the remainder of their term of office. When it is no longer possible to replace half or m…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions applicable to personal injury offences resulting from deliberate intoxication

Article 706-139-2

…e in relation to an accused charged with murder, assassination, torture or acts of barbarism, violence or rape, the President asked the subsidiary question relating to the qualifications provided for…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-7-1

…rneys may practise their profession within the framework of a société pluri-professionnelle d'exercice, provided for in Title IV bis of Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1a: Freedom to provide services by industrial property agents established on the territory of a Member State of the European Community or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R422-7-2

…professionals mentioned in Article R. 422-7-1 are required, when carrying out their activity in France, to comply with the rules set out in the articles L. 422-8 and R. 422-52 to R. 422-54. In the eve…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Regional development plan

Article L4433-7-2

…ional development plan sets out the fundamental guidelines for the development, protection and enhancement of the coastline. It takes the place, for the sectors that it determines, of a scheme for the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Special provisions for certain research on human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Article R2151-12-7

…2151-12-6, apply to the declaration and implementation of research protocols conducted on human induced pluripotent stem cells with the aim of differentiating these cells into gametes, obtaining in vi…

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