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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Agricultural risk compensation scheme

Article L442-1-1

…be formed by insurance undertakings meeting the conditions set out in 1°, 2° and 4° of I of Article L. 361-4-1 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code in order to: 1° Carry out, within the meani…

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

Article L621-14

I. - In the event of the breaches referred to in II of Article L. 621-15, the AMF Board may publish a statement specifying the identity of the natural person or legal entity in question and the nature…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-1

…isks brought in by their members or to offer the provision of the operations referred to in article L. 143-1. In return for payment of a fixed or variable premium, they guarantee their members full se…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions applicable to certain categories of workers.

Article L5523-1

With the exception of the provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 5221-7, the provisions of Title II of Book II relating to foreign workers are applicable in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, M…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Authorisation of payment institutions

Article L522-7-1

I. - Payment institutions providing the payment service referred to in 7° of II of article L. 314-1 must, at the time of authorisation, have professional civil liability insurance covering the territo…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Acquisition of Trade Mark Rights

Article L712-6-1

If a trade mark protected in a State party to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property has been registered in France in the name of the agent or representative of the proprietor…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Acquisition of Trade Mark Rights

Article L712-2-1

Any local authority or public establishment for inter-communal cooperation may ask the National Institute of Industrial Property to be alerted in the event of the filing of an application to register…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Acquisition of Trade Mark Rights

Article L712-4-1

…owing persons may file an opposition on the basis of one or more of the rights mentioned in Article L. 712-4, provided that these rights belong to the same proprietor: 1° The proprietor of an earlier…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Acquisition of Trade Mark Rights

Article L712-5-1

…the contested application for registration, in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article L. 714-5 or, in the case of a European Union trade mark, Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Breach of contract.

Article L6222-18-2

If the apprenticeship contract is terminated in application of article L. 6222-18, the training centre in which the apprentice is registered takes the necessary steps to enable him to follow his theor…

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