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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 12: Unjustified geographical blocking

Article L121-23

Subject to the provisions of article L. 132-24-1, a trader is prohibited from: 1° Blocking or limiting a consumer's access to its online interface, by using technological or other measures, for reason…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-4

The public prosecutor is required to act if requested to do so by a public authority or by a third party who has raised the nationality objection before a court which has stayed the proceedings pursua…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-5

Judgments and rulings handed down in matters of French nationality by the ordinary law judge have effect even with regard to those who were neither parties nor represented. Any interested party is, ho…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-1

The seat and jurisdiction of the judicial courts competent to hear disputes over the French or foreign nationality of natural persons shall be determined by decree.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-3

Any person has the right to act to have it decided that he or she has or does not have French nationality. The public prosecutor has the same right with regard to any person. He is a necessary defenda…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Judicial declaration of parental abandonment

Article 381-2

The court shall declare a child taken into care by a person, establishment or departmental child welfare service to be abandoned if the child is in the situation referred to in Article 381-1 during th…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L121-2

School and university sports associations are subject to the provisions of this Code and Books V and VIII of the Education Code.

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R411-2

If the service provider ceases to fulfil the conditions to which the signature of the agreement provided for in the previous article was subject, or if it has failed to fulfil the commitments made in…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Advances

Article L2191-2

Contracts awarded by the purchasers mentioned in article L. 2191-1 give rise to advance payments, under the conditions laid down by regulation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Cooperative societies.

Article R4131-22

The General Meeting meets at least once a year. Each shareholder has one vote, regardless of the fraction of the capital subscribed by him. A member may only be represented at the meeting by another m…

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