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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Patents for invention

Article R617-2-1

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-9-1

The activities referred to in Article L. 5124-1 may be carried out by pharmaceutical establishments set up within non-profit organisations or public establishments other than health establishments: 1°…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-7-15

…to capital reductions do not apply to a reduction in subscribed capital the purpose of which is to neutralise losses incurred or to include sums of money in a non-distributable reserve provided that,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-7-11

…ent of the company concerned;3° the information referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 22 of Council Directive 77/91/EEC of 13 December 1976 on co-ordination of safeguards which, for the protection of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Voluntary sales of movable property by public auction

Article A321-28

…qualification held by the applicant in accordance with the classification set out in Article 11 of Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 as amended on…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Application for authorisation.

Article R5121-21

…aracteristics, the presentation and content of which are laid down in accordance with article 11 of Directive 2001/83/EC of 6 November 2001 by order of the Minister for Health, issued on a proposal fr…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 4: Rights guaranteed to foreign nationals during legal proceedings

Article L342-17

The foreign national may ask the liberties and detention judge for the assistance of an interpreter and for his or her file to be communicated. The same applies to the ad hoc administrator in the case…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Compensation for skills transfers

Article L1873-1

…lic establishments for inter-communal cooperation with municipal libraries are eligible for special assistance within the general decentralisation grant provided for in article L. 1614-10.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Personal checks by the judge.

Article 181

The judge may, in the course of the verification operations, at the hearing or in any other place, be assisted by a technician, hear the parties themselves and any person whose hearing appears to be u…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article L23-12-1

A governing body is considered to be any body set up within the company, by any corporate act or practice, for the purpose of regularly assisting the bodies responsible for general management in the p…

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