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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Powers and organisation for the protection of copyright and related rights

Article L331-12

…Code, with regard to infringements of these rights committed on electronic communications networks used for the provision of online public communication services. It conducts awareness-raising and pr…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Prevention

Article L232-2-1

A Therapeutic Use Exemption takes effect on the date on which it is notified. However, an authorisation may take effect on an earlier date, which it mentions: 1° In an emergency or in the case of urge…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The status of the sole trader

Article R526-26

…rticle L. 526-22, the assets, rights, obligations and securities held by the sole trader, which are useful for the professional activity, are those which, by their nature, purpose or object, are used…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Recovery.

Article 345 bis

I.-When the taxpayer has applied a tax law according to the interpretation that the administration had made known by its published instructions or circulars and that it had not reported at the date of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Projects subject to authorisation.

Article L752-1-2

The representative of the State in the department may suspend by decree, after consultation with or at the request of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with its own tax status an…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Operating revenue

Article L2331-4

Non-tax revenue from the operating section may include: 1° Proceeds from the fee for the removal of household refuse from camping sites, the special fee or the fee for the removal of refuse, waste and…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 7: Commercial use of the image, name and voice of professional sportspeople and trainers

Article D222-50

…from the payment of the royalty provided for in article L. 222-2-10-1, in respect of the individual use, by the sports association or company mentioned in articles L. 122-1 or L. 122-2, of his/her ima…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Legal status of in vitro diagnostic medical devices.

Article L5221-1

…ists of a reagent, reagent product, calibration material, control material, kit, instrument, apparatus, equipment, software or system, used alone or in combination, intended by the manufacturer to be…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Artificial baths

Article D1332-43

…provisions of this section apply to public or private artificial bathing facilities for collective use. Open-system artificial bathing facilities whose replenishment depends on the tides are not subj…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Scope of application

Article R1333-104

…e L. 1333-9: 1° For radioactive sources and products and devices containing them:a) Manufacture ;b) Use or possession ;c) Distribution, import from a country outside the European Union or export from…

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