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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L212-3-9

Performers may not prohibit the reproduction and public communication of their performance if it is incidental to an event constituting the main subject of a sequence of a work or audiovisual document…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L212-3-2

In the absence of a specific provision in his exploitation contract or a collective or professional agreement applicable in his sector of activity and providing for a comparable mechanism, the perform…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Conditions for opening a judicial liquidation.

Article L640-3-1

Where it is brought to the attention of the president of the court, information showing that the conditions of article L. 640-1 have been met, he shall inform the Public Prosecutor's Office by means o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-29-7-4

Any fees charged by an intermediary for the services mentioned in Articles L. 228-29-7-1 to L. 228-29-7-3 shall be non-discriminatory and proportionate to the costs incurred in providing these service…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L331-1-3

In fixing the damages, the court shall take into account separately: 1° The negative economic consequences of the infringement of rights, including the loss of profit and loss suffered by the injured…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20-3

I.-The right to authorise the simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission, other than cable retransmission as defined in III of article L. 132-20-1 and meeting the conditions mentioned in II…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L518-1

The following are not subject to the provisions of Chapters I to VII of this Title: the French Treasury, the Banque de France, La Poste, under the conditions defined in Article L. 518-25, the Institut…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-3

Information may be provided to employees by any means, specified by regulation, likely to make the date of its receipt by the employees certain. When information is provided by registered letter with…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Actions and resources of members of multidisciplinary occupational health teams.

Article L4624-2-3

After maternity leave or an absence from work justified by incapacity resulting from illness or accident and meeting the conditions set by decree, the employee is entitled to a resumption examination…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4141-3-1

The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of professionals, individually…

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