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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article L711-3

I.-Shall not be validly registered and, if registered, shall be liable to be declared invalid a trade mark infringing earlier rights having effect in France, in particular: 1° An earlier trade mark :…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: National health data system

Article L1461-3

I.-Access to personal data in the national health data system may only be authorised for the purposes of processing:1° Contributing to a purpose mentioned in III of Article L. 1461-1 and meeting a pub…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Companies with fifty or more employees.

Article L2143-3

Each representative trade union organisation in the company or establishment of at least fifty employees, which forms a trade union section, appoints from among the candidates in the professional elec…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNE SECTION

Article L2411-3

The syndicate committee comprises the mayor of the commune and elected members, the number of whom, which may be 4, 6, 8 or 10, is set by the order of the State representative in the department conven…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Terms and conditions of performance of the partnership contract

Article L2213-3

Where the purchaser entrusts all or part of the design of the works to the contractor, the contract performance conditions must include the obligation to identify a project management team responsible…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article LO6214-3

I. - The local authority shall lay down the rules applicable in the following matters:1° Taxes, duties and fees under the conditions provided for in Article LO 6214-4; land registry;2° Town planning;…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: National protocols

Article L4011-3

I.-A national committee for inter-professional cooperation is responsible for the strategy, promotion and deployment of inter-professional cooperation. It proposes a list of national protocols to be d…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial chambers of commerce and industry and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L713-3

I.-The representatives referred to in articles L. 713-1 and L. 713-2 must hold office in the company either as chairman and chief executive officer, chairman or member of the board of directors, chief…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: The national plant variety authority

Article D412-10

The duties of the person in charge of missions falling within the remit of the national plant variety authority are:receiving, registering and examining applications for plant variety certificates and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to certain transfers of powers (R)

Article R1614-109

The amount of the contribution that, pursuant to the third paragraph of Article L. 1614-8-1 the State pays to each region for the operation of the transferred services is equal to the sum necessary to…

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