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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-22

…The forfeiture takes effect on the due date of the unpaid annual fee. It shall be established by a decision of the Director of the National Institute of Industrial Property or, at the request of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-4

The property freezing order shall be accompanied by a request for enforcement of an order for confiscation of the property. Failing this, the certificate shall contain an instruction to retain the pro…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 421-10

The author has twelve months from the date of the decision to award the grant to submit the developed version of the project to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. He/she is exempt fro…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Appeals against refusal of travel authorisations

Article D312-7

…Ministry of the Interior, the Deputy Director of Visas is responsible for examining appeals against decisions to refuse travel authorisation taken by the ETIAS national unit. The referral to this auth…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 10: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article L5211-57

Decisions by the council of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system, the effects of which affect only one of the member municipalities, may only be taken after o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Rectification and judicial annulment

Article 1055

Appeals against decisions rendered in non-contentious matters shall be lodged in accordance with the rules laid down in Article 950. The provisions of Article 952 are applicable. The appeal is investi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Hospital cooperatives of doctors

Article L6163-10

The decision duly taken by any company, whatever its form, or any economic interest grouping, to amend its Articles of Association in order to adapt them to the provisions of this chapter does not res…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable before the investigating, trial, sentence enforcement and secure detention courts

Article R*49-29

…e presented in a separate written statement setting out the reasons on which it is based. Where the decision refusing to refer the priority question of constitutionality is challenged in an appeal aga…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IX: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R490-5

…ompetition laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, court decisions ruling on the basis of Articles 81 and 82 of that Treaty are notified by the court registr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Simplified judicial liquidation.

Article R644-4

…tter with acknowledgement of receipt.It shall rule in the light of a report from the liquidator.The decision shall be communicated by the registrar to the debtor and the liquidator and forwarded by th…

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