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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Termination by agreement

Article R6152-387

Each of the parties has a right of withdrawal. This right is exercised within a period of fifteen clear days starting one clear day after the date of signature of the contractual termination agreement…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Termination of service.

Article R6152-630-7

Each of the parties has a right of withdrawal. This right is exercised within a period of fifteen clear days starting one clear day after the date of signature of the contractual termination agreement…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Obligations relating to the identification of customers, accounts and persons as part of the fight against tax evasion and fraud

Article L564-1

…nding article L. 312-1, when a financial institution subject to I of article 1649 AC of the General Tax Code is unable to identify, under the conditions set out in II of the same article 1649 AC, the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Obligations relating to the identification of customers, accounts and persons as part of the fight against tax evasion and fraud

Article L564-2

Financial institutions subject to Article I of Article 1649 AC of the General Tax Code,Article L. 102 AG of the Book of Tax Procedures and Article L. 564-1 of this Code shall set up an internal contro…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Patentable inventions

Article L611-12

…ht of priority attached to that filing having effects equivalent to those provided for by the Paris Convention may be granted under the same conditions only to the extent that that State grants, on th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Acts that the tutor may not perform

Article 509

…uitous alienation of the property or rights of the protected person except as stated in relation to gifts, such as the remission of a debt, the gratuitous renunciation of an acquired right, the early…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Termination by agreement

Article R6152-434

Both parties have a right of withdrawal. This right is exercised within a period of fifteen clear days, starting one clear day after the date of signature of the contractual termination agreement, in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Non-seizability of the principal residence

Article L526-1

…he has not used for his business to be exempt from seizure. This declaration, published in the real estate register or, in the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle, in the land register, has…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Control.

Article L1263-5

The decision by the administrative authority to suspend the provision of services pursuant to articles L. 1263-4, L. 1263-4-1 or L. 1263-4-2 shall not result in the termination or suspension of the em…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Control.

Article L1263-2

The nature of the information that may be disclosed and the conditions under which the protection of personal data is ensured are specified by decree in the Council of State.

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