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Showing 37613770 of 7437 articles for Art. TEPA Act 21 August 2007

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

Article R714-2

…mark:1° The identification of the applicant and the references of the filing, as well as subsequent acts affecting its existence or scope and, in the case of a collective mark or guarantee mark, the r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions.

Article L8271-6-5

…d the inspection officers mentioned in 4° and 8° of article L. 8271-1-2 may carry out the following acts under a pseudonym without being criminally liable: 1° Participate in electronic exchanges, incl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 6: Publication of the register

Article A123-75

…he surnames, usual names, pseudonyms and forenames of the managers with an indication that they may act alone or that they are acting jointly; 9° The clause exempting a new member from payment of debt…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Regional fund for apprenticeship and continuing vocational training

Article R4332-1

For the application of Article L. 4332-1, the appropriations entered in the Finance Act for the allocation to the regions for the exercise of their competences in the field of continuing vocational tr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Practitioners providing services.

Article R4126-2

Any doctor, dental surgeon or midwife who performs professional acts in France without being registered with the ordre, under the conditions provided for in article L. 4112-7, is subject to the discip…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-50

…he temporary impediment or death of the Chairman, the Board of Directors may delegate a director to act as Chairman. In the event of temporary impediment, this delegation is given for a limited period…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Dismissal.

Article 122

…pponent declared inadmissible in his claim, without examination of the merits, for lack of right to act, such as lack of standing, lack of interest, prescription, time limit, res judicata.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Interruption of proceedings.

Article 372

Acts performed and judgments, even those that have become res judicata, obtained after the proceedings have been interrupted, are deemed to be null and void unless they are expressly or tacitly confir…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Marriage certificates.

Article 67

…he will also make a note, in the margin of the entry of the said oppositions, of the judgments or acts of release of which a copy has been given to him.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 194

…one may claim the title of spouse and the civil effects of marriage unless he or she represents an act of celebration recorded in the civil status register; except in the cases provided for in Articl…

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