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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Liberal practice partnerships

Article R422-47

…ner of a private practice company set up to practise the profession of industrial property attorney may be excluded from it in the event of a final disciplinary sanction having the effect of temporari…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Civil action

Article L621-4

…all specify the rate of the penalty and the date from which it begins to run.The adjournment, which may only occur once, may be decided even if the accused does not appear in person.The judge may orde…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Drawing up and auditing the accounts of the social and economic committee

Article R2315-42

…definite date of receipt within thirty days of receiving the information referred to in article R. 2315-41. He shall give an analysis of the situation and specify any measures envisaged.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Designation procedures and arrangements

Article D1413-49

The Minister for Health, acting on a proposal from the Director General of the National Public Health Agency, shall draw up a list of national reference centres for a period of five years, specifying,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Additional requirements for mobile work equipment

Article R4324-40

Self-propelled mobile work equipment is fitted with a braking and stopping device. Where safety so requires, particularly in the case of equipment with a heavily loaded braking system, an emergency de…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Hospital duties for medical students.

Article R6153-47

During the period defined in article R. 6153-46, medical students complete thirty-six months of training, including the annual leave provided for in article R. 6153-58, the terms of which are determin…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Penalties involving deprivation of rights.

Article 432

…ading places, and to be published at the expense of the convicted person in accordance with article 243 of law no. 85-98 of 25 January 1985 relating to the reorganisation and judicial liquidation of c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article L533-29-3

…companies with a branch or subsidiary that is a financial institution within the meaning of Article 4(1), point 26 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 in a Member State or in a third country other than the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Pledging of tangible movable property

Article 2333

…creditors on a present or future movable asset or group of movable tangible assets. Secured claims may be present or future; in the latter case, they must be determinable.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Property retained as security.

Article 2372

…purchaser or to the insurance indemnity subrogated to the property.The sub-purchaser or the insurer may then set up against the creditor the defences inherent in the debt as well as defences arising f…

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