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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article R612-37-1

Amendments to the patent application must not extend its subject matter beyond the content of the application as filed.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article R612-39-1

Where the patent application has been filed in the form of a provisional application, the written request referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 612-39 must be accompanied, on pain of inadmi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the implementation of a resolution measure

Article L613-56-3

I. - For the purposes of implementing Article L. 613-55-6, the resolution board may automatically terminate the financial and derivative contracts mentioned in Sections 4 to 10 of Section C of Annex I…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial assistance and exemptions.

Article L5134-30-2

…ion aid provided for in sub-section 2 of this section has been awarded for the recruitment of an employee who was, prior to his or her recruitment, in receipt of the active solidarity income financed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L2334-7-3

In 2014, the amount of the flat-rate allowance for municipalities in mainland France and the overseas departments, with the exception of those in the Department of Mayotte, is reduced by €588 million.…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Litigation concerning the invalidity and revocation of trademarks

Article L716-2-3

The following are inadmissible: 1° An application for a declaration of invalidity brought by the proprietor of an earlier trade mark which has been registered for more than five years at the date of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: The Assembly of Corsica

Article L4422-9-3

The President of the Assembly of Corsica may decide that the meeting of the standing committee is to be held in several places, by videoconference. When the meeting of the standing committee is held b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Protection.

Article L4623-5-3

The transfer of an occupational health physician included in a partial transfer of a prevention and occupational health service by application of article L. 1224-1 may only take place after authorisat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 2: Conditions for registration on the lists of judicial representatives.

Article R812-18-3

…cribes the procedures in which he or she has participated and the actions he or she has taken, as well as an internship dissertation on an economics, law or management subject of his or her choice. At…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: The national financial intelligence unit

Article R561-37-1

The TRACFIN department shall keep records to ensure traceability of: 1° Requests for information that it sends, pursuant toArticle L. 561-27, to the public prosecutor, the investigating judge and the…

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