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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Correction, withdrawal and publication of the application

Article R612-38

The patent application may be withdrawn at any time, by a written declaration, until the fee for granting and printing the patent specification has been paid. This declaration may relate to only one a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-19

The departmental criminal court shall apply the provisions of this code relating to the assize courts subject to the following reservations: 1° No account shall be taken of provisions that mention the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Conditions governing access to the judicial and legal professions for certain commercial court registrars.

Article R742-38

Within six months of the completion of the probationary period provided for in article R. 742-35, the court clerk shall again refer the matter to the commission so that it may examine, in the light of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Label.

Article R5132-38

Containers or packaging containing medicinal products covered by the narcotics regulations and not packaged for the public must bear a label of a size appropriate to their volume, affixed in such a wa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Control and accounting

Article R6332-38

Skills operators and training insurance funds for non-salaried workers are subject to economic and financial control by the State under the conditions laid down by the aforementioned decree no. 55-733…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4 : Smoothing or spreading devices

Article 75-0 C

I.-At the request of the farmer, the income tax relating to the following income is assessed each year in fifths for the year of cessation and the following four years: 1° The sums deducted in applica…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Provisions applicable to refugees, stateless persons and beneficiaries of territorial asylum or subsidiary protection and to French nationals who have returned to French territory at the request of the French authorities

Article R4111-38

I. - When they wish to benefit from a temporary work permit in application of the provisions of the fourth paragraph of I of article L. 4111-2, persons who are refugees, stateless persons or beneficia…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Data processing by the Commission for access to third-party donor data by persons born of medically assisted procreation

Article R2143-17

I.-The categories of personal data recorded in the processing mentioned in article R. 2143-16 are: 1° In the case of persons born of medically assisted procreation with a third-party donor: a) Data re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Time limits and forms of appeal

Article 380-12

The statement of appeal must be made at the registry of the assize court which handed down the contested decision.It must be signed by the registrar and by the appellant himself, by a lawyer, or by a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Role of blood transfusion establishments.

Article R1221-38

Health establishments send their referring blood establishment the information mentioned in II of article R. 1221-36 and in 2° of article R. 1221-37. Decisions by the Director General of the Agence na…

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