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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Consumer information

Article R131-1

The failure by a professional seller or service provider to provide any interested party who so requests with a copy of the agreements that he usually offers, in disregard of the provisions of article…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budget

Article R5212-1-1-1

The provisions of articles R. 5211-13-2 to R. 5211-13-6 are applicable to syndicats de communes.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Negotiations

Article 1112-1

…whose importance is decisive for the consent of the other must inform the other of this fact if the latter is legitimately unaware of this information or trusts his co-contractor. However, this duty t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications

Article 1075-1

When an application for compensatory allowance is made to the judge or provided for in an agreement, each spouse shall produce the declaration on their honour referred to in article 272 of the Civil C…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications

Article 1076-1

Where one of the parties has only requested the payment of alimony or a contribution to the expenses of the marriage, the judge may not grant the divorce without inviting the parties to explain the pa…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R261-1

Any transaction enabling a person who is not subject to the obligation to seek ongoing exploitation laid down in article L. 132-27 of the French Intellectual Property Code and who is not a co-producer…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Penalties and remedies

Article L261-4

In the event of non-compliance by the beneficiary of the operation with the obligations imposed on it by the Commission de protection de l'accès aux œuvres (Commission for the Protection of Access to…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter 5: The Lyon metropolitan area

Article L135-2

The Lyon metropolitan area may create one or more tourist offices in all or part of its territory. The areas of competence of each tourist office may not overlap. When the Metropolitan Council decides…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Special provisions relating to the digital exploitation of unavailable books

Article L134-4

I. - The author of an unavailable book or the publisher holding the right to reproduce that book in printed form may object to the exercise of the right of authorisation referred to in the first parag…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Accounting rules for transfers of supplementary occupational pension contracts

Article L384-5

I. - The assets transferred with a portfolio of supplementary occupational pension contracts by a life insurance or capitalisation undertaking or a supplementary occupational pension fund are allocate…

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