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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application

Article L137-1

For the purposes of Articles L. 137-2 to L. 137-4, a person who provides an online public communication service whose main purpose, or one of whose main purposes, is to store and give the public acces…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L311-19

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 325-1, the resolution board may decide to withdraw all or part of the authorisation of a person subject to resolution proceedings, where appropriate a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L311-18

I.-The supervisory board and the members mentioned in 1° and 2° of I of Article L. 612-8-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code may refer the situation of a person mentioned in Article L. 311-1 to the r…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Issue of decisions

Article L613-1

Reasons must be given for the decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory.In the case provided for in 3° of article L. 611-1, the decision imposing an obligation to leave French territor…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases

Article L242-17

The chairman, directors or managing directors of a public limited company are liable to a fine of €150,000, issue shares or share denominations without the previously subscribed capital of the company…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Trader status.

Article L121-1

Traders are those who carry out commercial acts and make it their usual profession.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Protected information

Article L151-1

…lf or in the exact configuration and assembly of its elements, generally known or easily accessible to persons familiar with this type of information by virtue of their sector of activity; 2° It has a…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L331-1

Civil actions and claims relating to literary and artistic property, including when they also relate to a related issue of unfair competition, shall be brought exclusively before judicial courts, dete…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Registration application

Article L512-1

…t or, in the absence of a commercial court, at the registry of the court ruling in commercial matters. Where the application for registration is filed at the registry of a court, the court shall forwa…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: General information

Article L611-1

Any invention may be the subject of an industrial property title issued by the Director of the National Institute of Industrial Property which confers on its holder or his successors in title an exclu…

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