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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 Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Object of protection

Article L511-3

A design shall be regarded as new if, at the date of filing of the application for registration or at the date of priority claimed, no identical design has been disclosed. Designs are considered ident…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Misleading commercial practices

Article L121-3

A commercial practice is also misleading if, taking into account the specific limitations of the means of communication used and the surrounding circumstances, it omits, conceals or provides in an uni…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Misleading commercial practices

Article L132-3

Natural persons guilty of the offence punishable under article L. 132-2 shall also incur as additional penalties the prohibition, in accordance with the terms set out in Article 131-27 of the Criminal…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article L222-3

For contracts relating to financial services involving an initial service agreement followed by successive transactions or a series of separate transactions of the same nature staggered over time, the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application

Article L312-3

Tangible pledge loans taken out with municipal credit unions pursuant to Article L. 514-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code are subject to the provisions of articles L. 312-5, L. 312-6 and L. 312-8 t…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Interpreters and translators

Article L141-3

Where the provisions of this code stipulate that information or a decision must be communicated to a foreign national in a language that he understands, this information may be provided either by mean…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Voluntary departure period

Article L251-3

Foreign nationals whose situation is governed by this book have a period of voluntary departure of one month from notification of the decision to comply with the obligation to leave French territory.T…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: General provisions

Article LO1112-3

In the cases provided for in articles LO 1112-1 and LO 1112-2, the deliberative assembly of the territorial community, by a single deliberation, determines the procedures for organising the local refe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Emphyteutic administrative lease

Article L1311-3

Leases entered into pursuant to article L. 1311-2 satisfy the following specific conditions: 1° The rights resulting from the lease may only be transferred, with the approval of the local authority, t…

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