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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article R321-1

…ell as the provisions of articles R. 321-26, R. 321-27, R. 321-30 to R. 321-34, R. 321-36 to R. 321-42, R. 321-44, R. 321-46 and R. 321-47.Collective management organisations established outside the E…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Voting

Article R7343-52

…in article R. 7343-43. It is appended to the electronic voting report mentioned in article R. 7343-42.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Information system concerning jobseekers and employees

Article R5312-44

…em relating to the incarceration of persons in custody as referred to in f of 1° of article R. 5312-42 are kept for a period of three months from the end of the incarceration of these persons. For any…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Special provisions for certain investigative measures

Article 694-46

…pursuant to the first paragraph be transferred to the issuing State, the provisions of Article 694-42 shall apply. Where the issuing authority requests, in the decision, that the items seized pursuan…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised inter-regional courts in economic and financial matters

Article 704-1

…have concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of articles 43,52,382and 706-42. Where they have jurisdiction to prosecute and investigate offences falling within the scope of A…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Domestic arbitration.

Article 1469

…orial jurisdiction of the president of the judicial court is determined in accordance with Articles 42 to 48. The claim is lodged, investigated and judged according to the accelerated procedure on the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Approved funds.

Article R214-190

…article R. 214-32-29 does not apply to general-purpose professional funds.III. - Article R. 214-32-42 does not apply to general-purpose professional funds.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4 : Participation of medical transport companies in the on-call service for urgent medical transport

Article R6312-23-2

…ned in article R. 6312-17-1, and on ambulance unavailability and shortages as defined inarticle L. 1424-42 of the General Local Authorities Code. This monitoring enables the adequacy of the system to…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Rules specific to contracts with a particular purpose

Article D224-59

In application of Article L. 224-42-3, providers of Internet access services or publicly accessible interpersonal communications services who subject the provision of these services to certain conditi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Declarations to be made by natural persons

Article R123-45

…necessary to rectify or add to the statements provided for in articles R. 123-37, R. 123-38, R. 123-42 and R. 123-44 shall, within one month, be the subject of an application for amending registration…

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