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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-3-1

…o sale, loan or hire, by offering for the same purposes or by making available to the public in any form whatsoever a technological application, device or component ; 3° By providing a service for thi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-4-1

…tive technological measure as defined in article L. 331-5, in order to alter the protection of a performance, phonogram, videogram, programme or press publication by decoding, decrypting or any other…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Pre-contractual information for borrowers

Article L312-12

…ion of the credit agreement, the creditor or credit intermediary shall provide the borrower, in the form of an information sheet, on paper or on another durable medium, with the information required t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 74

…officer who is notified or, under his supervision, the judicial police officer shall immediately inform the public prosecutor, go to the scene without delay and make the first observations.The public…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Persons called upon to carry out seizures, rights and obligations of persons seizing and customs detention

Article 323-6

A person placed in customs detention is immediately informed by a customs officer, under the conditions set out in article 63-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure: 1° Of his or her detention, as well a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Special rules relating to sociétés de placement à prépondérance immobilière à capital variable (real estate investment companies with variable capital)

Article L214-62

…) or a société par actions simplifiée (simplified joint stock company) with variable capital in the form of a société par actions simplifiée (simplified joint stock company), other than a société par…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Governance

Article L224-21

…mittee is chosen from among the representatives of the plan members. When the plan is set up in the form of an inter-company plan, the supervisory committee may be common to all the companies belongin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Equity loans

Article L313-13

…ng-term resources to grant loans to agricultural, craft, industrial or commercial businesses in the form of equity loans governed by Articles L. 313-14 to L. 313-20. The provisions of this article are…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-5-3

…ween the subscriber and the policyholder does not make membership of the contract compulsory, the information sheet provided by the policyholder includes, in addition to the information mentioned in t…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Registration procedure for travel agents and other operators selling travel and holidays.

Article R211-20

…ication for registration is made on behalf of a legal entity, it must state the company name, legal form, where applicable the amount of share capital, the address of the registered office and seconda…

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