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Showing 49214930 of 10782 articles for Art. decision n° 2019-820 QPC

French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single section: Procedure

Article R618-3

Where a period is expressed in days, the day of the act, event, decision or notification that causes it to run shall not count.Where a period is expressed in months or years, the period shall expire o…

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

Article R712-1

…or shall be sent there by post or by any means of teletransmission under the conditions defined by decision of its Director General. The filing date shall be the date of receipt of the application at…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Administrative penalty procedure and administrative settlement

Article R522-8

…by an agent of their choice. At the end of this procedure, the person concerned is informed of the decision. At the end of this procedure, the accused person is informed of the reasoned decision, whi…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 3: Closure of the investigation

Article R532-26

The hearing panel may not base its decision on information outside the case file relating to factual circumstances specific to the asylum seeker or to his story, without first informing the parties.Wh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Regional Plan for Spatial Planning, Sustainable Development and Equality

Article L4251-10

…erritorial equality in force, amend it, revise it in whole or in part, or repeal it. The abrogation decision takes effect on the date of publication of the order approving the new regional development…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Deliberations

Article L7222-15

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Prevention and settlement of conflicts of jurisdiction between Member States of the European Union

Article D47-1-25

…e criminal proceedings as well as the state of progress of the criminal proceedings and, if a final decision has been handed down, the nature of that decision. It may provide any other relevant additi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Information-consultation

Article R1233-3-3

…ons set out in articles L. 2315-82 and L. 2315-83 are not met. The Regional Director shall give his decision within five days of receipt of the request. A copy of the decision is sent to the other par…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Remote electronic voting

Article R2122-70

…the expiry of the period for lodging an appeal or, where an appeal has been lodged, until the court decision has become final, the media files including the copy of the source programmes and executabl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Initial registrations

Article R521-12

…and six months for the social security lien; registration is non-renewable; > -the term set by the decision of the Minister of Finance. -the period set by the court decision, for the inalienability m…

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