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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-45

…Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique shall be lodged, investigated and judged in accordance with the provisions of this sub-section.The authority shall not be a party…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-44

…ulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique mentioned in articles R. 331-36 to R. 331-38 and R. 331-41 are notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to the parties, who…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-46

…ing, on pain of nullity:1° If the applicant is a natural person, his surname, forenames, profession and domicile; if the applicant is a legal person, its name, form, registered office and the body rep…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Regulatory and monitoring role in the field of technical protection measures and the identification of protected works and objects

Article R331-47

…e filing of his statement, the author of the appeal must, on pain of the latter being declared null and void ex officio, send, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, a copy thereof to t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section I: Adversarial proceedings.

Article 470

…e case by a decision not subject to appeal after a final notice addressed to the parties themselves and to their agent if they have one.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 484

When the Court of Appeal is seised of the merits of the case, it has jurisdiction to rule on restitution under the conditions set out in articles 478 to 481. The Court of Appeal may refuse restitution…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 472

In the case provided for in Article 470, where the civil party has itself initiated the public prosecution, the court shall rule by the same judgment on the claim for damages made by the person acquit…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section III: Orders on request.

Article 494

The application must be submitted in duplicate. It must state the reasons on which it is based. It must include a precise indication of the documents relied on. If it is presented in the course of pro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Remuneration of the administrator, the administrator responsible for the implementation of the plan, the mandataire judiciaire and the liquidator

Article R663-40

Actions by court-appointed administrators, plan executioners, judicial representatives and liquidators relating to remuneration shall be barred after six months from the notification provided for in A…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Summary orders.

Article 490

An interlocutory injunction may be appealed against unless it is issued by the first president of the court of appeal or it was issued as a last resort by reason of the amount or subject matter of the…

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