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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Administration of establishments in the network of chambers of commerce and industry

Article L712-2

…the allocation of the tax for the costs of chambers as provided for in articles L. 711-8 and L. 711-16. Failure to comply with the measures provided for in the contract of objectives and performance,…

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

Article R712-17

The examination phase or the time limit set in the first paragraph of Article R. 712-16-2 are suspended: 1° Where the opposition is based in whole or in part on an application for registration of a tr…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Organisation and operation

Article R823-10

…liberations of the Board of Directors relating to the objects mentioned in 6°, 7°, 8°, 10°, 11° and 16° of article R. 823-7 are enforceable only after they have been approved by the Minister for Indus…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Serial analysis files

Article R40-35

The authorisations provided for in Article 230-16 are issued under the following conditions: 1° For national police officers carrying out judicial police duties, either by the heads of the national po…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article D45-19

…The public prosecutor forwards the dispute mentioned in the third paragraph of 2° of article D. 45-16, along with his or her submissions, to the judge mentioned in the first paragraph of article 495-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section One: Miscellaneous provisions concerning the classification, labelling and packaging of dangerous substances and mixtures

Article R1342-1

…dice to Article 48 of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, any adve…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Detection of business difficulties by the president of the court

Article R611-14

…ph of II of article L. 611-2 as well as article R. 611-15 and the first paragraph of article R. 611-16. If the letter is returned with a note stating that it has not been claimed by its addressee, the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title Ia: Electronically supervised home detention sentence

Article D49-82

…est under electronic surveillance are those provided for by articles R. 57-10 to R. 57-14 and R. 57-16 to R. 57-18 of this Code, and R. 622-1, R. 622-2, R. 622-4, R. 622-6, R. 622-7, R. 622-8, R. 622-…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Terms of engagement and services of the statutory auditor

Article R823-21

…ructure, drawn up in accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of 16 April 2014, within four months of the end of the financial year.The statutory auditor shall infor…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reports

Article D4622-54

…al health and prevention service draws up the annual activity report referred to in article L. 4622-16, which is presented to the inter-company committee or to the control commission and to the board…

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