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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-40-1

Members may also practise their profession within another company that does not confer the status of trader on them, in particular a société pluri-professionnelle d'exercice provided for in Title IV b…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Issue and maintenance of plant variety certificates

Article R623-40-1

The mention of essentially derived varieties within the meaning of IV of article L. 623-4, whether or not covered by a plant variety certificate, identified by their variety denomination, may be regis…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-40-2

Municipal councillors of member municipalities of a public inter-municipal cooperation establishment who are not members of its deliberative body are informed of the affairs of the establishment that…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-40-1

If unable to attend, a member of a committee set up in application of article L. 2121-22 may be replaced for a meeting by a municipal councillor from the same municipality appointed by the mayor. The…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility

Article R22-10-40

I.-The remuneration policy referred to in I of article L. 22-10-76 includes the following information, relating to the executive manager or managers as a whole: 1° The way in which it respects the com…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Conseil des ventes volontaires de meubles aux enchères publiques.

Article R321-40-1

Upon request, the Government Commissioner shall be provided, on behalf of the Conseil des Maisons de Vente, with the documents required to be kept by Article L. 561-12 of the Monetary and Financial Co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Amendments

Article L5215-40-1

Within three years of the publication of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale, le périmètre des communautés urbaines pe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-40

The minutes provided for in the twenty-sixth paragraph of l'article 41-2 précise :the nature of the alleged offences and their legal classification;the nature and quantum of the measures proposed purs…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Secure surveillance and secure detention

Article R53-8-40

The president of the chamber and the two councillors of the court of appeal who make up the regional court for secure detention belong to the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction this court sits.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article R53-40-3

If the liberty and custody judge does not grant the investigating judge's request, this request, the liberty and custody judge's decision, the public prosecutor's opinion and, where applicable, the in…

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