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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Duties of dental surgeons in relation to social medicine.

Article R4127-247

…e regular practice of the dental profession, in any form whatsoever, in the service of a company, local authority or institution governed by private law must, in all cases, be the subject of a written…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with healthcare service providers

Article L1435-5-2

…s may enter into a contract with a private health establishment of collective interest mentioned in 2° of article L. 6161-5 and doctors employed full-time by these establishments, on the basis of whic…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-23-5

…n a different apportionment of those costs, insofar as equity requires, and within the limits of a scale set by order of the Minister responsible for industrial property.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Invalidity of the trade mark

Article L716-2-5

An application for a declaration of invalidity filed on the basis of 2°, 3° and 4° of Article L. 711-2 shall be dismissed where the proprietor of the contested trade mark can establish that the trade…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Branch agreements and professional agreements.

Article L2232-5-2

The branches have a national scope of application. However, some of the provisions of their agreements may be defined, adapted or supplemented at local level. Employers' organisations set up in accord…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-25-5

Articles L. 3132-25 and L. 3132-25-1 do not apply to food retailers who benefit from the provisions of article L. 3132-13. Food retail outlets located in the areas referred to in article L. 3132-24 or…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to reinsurance undertakings.

Article R321-5-2

When, pursuant to Article L. 321-1-2 , the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution consults the authority responsible for supervising credit or investment institutions in the Member State con…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Unrestricted hearing and police custody

Article D15-5-2

…belonging to a territorially competent service other than the one in charge of the investigation to carry out the following steps: 1° Notify the persons mentioned in article 63-2; 2° Contact the lawye…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Procedure for marketing AIFs in an EU Member State other than France

Article L214-24-2

…the European Union other than France, shall first send the Autorité des marchés financiers a notification file for each AIF concerned.II. - When units or shares of a feeder AIF within the meaning of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings

Article L623-28

…sequences of the infringement, including the loss of profit and loss suffered by the injured party; 2° The non-material damage caused to the injured party; 3° And the profits made by the infringer, in…

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