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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Billing

Article L441-9

…ssional activity is subject to invoicing. The seller is obliged to issue the invoice as soon as the delivery or service provision has been completed within the meaning of 3 of the I of article 289 of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Restrictive competition practices

Article L442-3

…ation agreements;b) To benefit automatically from more favourable conditions granted to competing undertakings by the co-contractor;c) To prohibit the co-contractor from assigning to third parties cla…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IVa: Certain regulated tariffs

Article L444-3

The tariff for each service is set jointly by the ministers of justice and the economy. This tariff is revised at least every five years.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Powers of investigation.

Article L450-2-1

…r a paper medium. Where these documents are drawn up in digital format and the provisions of this Code require them to be signed, they shall be signed, irrespective of the number of pages and for each…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Written agreements

Article L441-6

…or a legal entity if the breach is repeated within two years of the date on which the first penalty decision became final.By way of derogation from the first two paragraphs of this article, for the pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Restrictive competition practices

Article L442-5

I.-Any trader who resells or advertises the resale of a product in its unaltered state at a price lower than its actual purchase price is liable to a fine of €75,000. This fine may be increased to hal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions specific to agricultural products and foodstuffs

Article L443-3

With the exception of products intended to be sold on a farm on a physical wholesale market by the producer or producer organisation, fresh fruit and vegetables intended for sale or resale to a profes…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IVa: Certain regulated tariffs

Article L444-4

Commissaires de justice, administrateurs judiciaires, mandataires judiciaires, the persons mentioned in the second paragraph of

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment terms

Article L441-16

…and up to €2 million for a legal entity shall be imposed for:a) Failing to comply with the payment deadlines provided for in I of Article L. 441-10, II of Article L. 441-11, Article L. 441-12 and Art…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment terms

Article L441-13

For deliveries of goods that are imported into the tax territory of the departments of Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte and the overseas collectivities of Saint-Barthélemy, S…

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