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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: Seizure of immovable property

Article L321-5

The seizure of the property may be invoked against third parties from the time of its publication in the property register.Unpublished or subsequently published disposals that have not been made in ac…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Administrative authorisation for insurance and reinsurance undertakings with head offices in France

Article L321-2

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall inform the European Commission, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the supervisory authorities of the other Membe…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Collective management bodies

Article L321-1

I.-Collective management organisations are legal entities constituted in any legal form whose main purpose is to manage copyright or rights related to copyright on behalf of several holders of these r…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Collective management bodies

Article L321-5

Collective management organisations are governed by the provisions specific to the legal form in which they are constituted, subject to the provisions of this Title.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Collective management bodies

Article L321-2

Regularly constituted collective management organisations are entitled to take legal action to defend the rights for which they are statutorily responsible and to defend the material and moral interes…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Collective management bodies

Article L321-3

Collective management organisations allow their members and other rightholders whose economic rights they manage to communicate with them by electronic means, in particular to exercise the rights gran…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: EDICTION

Article L321-2

The administrative ban on entry is the subject of a written decision issued after a non-adversarial procedure. Reasons shall be given for the decision, unless this is contrary to considerations of nat…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: EDICTION

Article L321-1

Any foreign national who does not habitually reside in France and is not present on French territory may be subject to an administrative ban on entry if their presence in France would constitute a ser…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: Insurance obligation

Article L321-1

Sports associations, companies and federations take out insurance to cover their own civil liability, that of their salaried or volunteer employees and that of sports users. Licence holders and partic…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: Insurance obligation

Article L321-3

It is compulsory to take out a civil liability insurance policy for recreational underwater fishing. Proof of insurance must be presented to any authority responsible for policing this activity.

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