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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Authorised bodies for the collective management of resale rights in the absence of a known successor in title, or in the event of vacancy or disinheritance

Article R329-5

Any change of status or general regulations, and any termination of office of a member of the deliberative and management bodies of an approved company shall be communicated to the Minister responsibl…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter X: Authorised bodies for the collection of private copy levies

Article R329-11

Any change of status or general regulations, and any termination of office of a member of the deliberative and governing bodies of an approved organisation must be communicated to the Minister respons…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Missions

Article R1431-3

…establishment, jurisdiction, organisation and operation of industrial tribunals;2° The appointment, status and training of industrial tribunal members;3° The procedure followed before industrial tribu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article 16

The following have the status of judicial police officers:1° Mayors and their deputies;2° Gendarmerie officers and ranks, gendarmes nominatively designated by order of the ministers of justice and the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I ter: Departmental rental value commissions

Article 1650 B

…es of local authorities and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status, nine representatives of taxpayers appointed by the State representative in the department, a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Referral by the court of the priority question of constitutionality to the Cour de cassation

Article 126-5

The court is not obliged to refer a priority question of constitutionality involving, on the same grounds, a legislative provision already before the Cour de cassation or the Conseil constitutionnel.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Simplified procedure

Article 495-6

The provisions of this section shall not preclude the rights of the injured party to summon the perpetrator before the criminal court. The court shall rule only on civil interests if the criminal orde…

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French Customs CodeIn force
C. - Confiscation of items seized from unknown persons and minutes.

Article 375

…ial court for the confiscation in kind of items seized from unknown persons or individuals who have not been prosecuted due to the insignificance of the fraud.2. The said application shall be decided…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 3: Orders on request

Article R121-23

…er on a petition in the cases specified by law or when circumstances require that an urgent measure not be taken in adversarial proceedings. The application shall be delivered or sent to the registry…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Counterfeiting litigation

Article L716-4-1

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