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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Granting of exploitation licences and collection of income from the exploitation of rights

Article L324-8-1

In the cases provided for by this code, a contract authorising the exploitation of protected works or subject matter concluded by a collective management organisation approved for this purpose by the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Financial provisions

Article L5216-8-1

The loss of revenue suffered by the conurbation community as a result of the extension from fifteen to twenty-five years of the exemptions from property tax on built properties provided for in article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Financial arrangements for the guarantee fund.

Article L421-8-1

The time limits stipulated in article L. 313-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code do not run against the guarantee fund until the day on which it receives the information justifying its intervention.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
section 2: Contracts concluded between a performer and a videogram producer

Article L212-8

The stipulations of the conventions or agreements mentioned in the preceding articles may be made binding within each sector of activity for all those concerned by order of the competent minister.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-41-1-A

I. - Credit institutions and finance companies are subject to an additional capital requirement over and above the requirements laid down respectively in part three of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Injunctions, emergency measures and other measures

Article L621-13-8

The Chairman or Secretary General of the Autorité des marchés financiers may order the suspension or dismissal of a person referred to in Article L. 421-7, if that person no longer fulfils the conditi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-88-1

Agreements entered into and authorised during previous financial years, the performance of which continued during the last financial year, are examined each year by the Supervisory Board and communica…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-8

Withdrawals made for the benefit of public accountants and revenue managers for the payment of local products, miscellaneous products and fines for which they are responsible do not incur any costs fo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Choice of expert

Article L2315-81-1

Once the expert has been appointed by the social and economic committee, the committee members draw up a set of specifications, as required, and notify the employer of these. The expert notifies the e…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Provisions applicable where the employer is established in another Member State of the European Community or the European Economic Area

Article L3253-18-8

When the foreign liquidator or any person exercising a function similar to that of the mandataire judiciaire, the administrateur judiciaire or the liquidator has ceased his functions or in the case me…

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