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

Article R422-39

…mit set by the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property, the latter, after calling on the company to present its oral or written observations, shall strike it off the national…

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

Article R422-32

…on by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. The company has six months from this notification to notify the partner, in the same form, of a plan to sell his shares to a partner or to a th…

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

Article R422-37

If the reserves constituted by undistributed profits or capital gains due to the members' industry so permit, the share capital is periodically increased. The shares created for this purpose are distr…

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

Article R422-33

…es R. 422-28 et R. 422-29. If, on expiry of this period, no assignment has taken place, it shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of article 19, third paragraph, of the law of 29 Novem…

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

Article R623-30

…ions falling within the remit of the national plant variety authority is only required to keep applications for plant variety certificates for a period of ten years after the expiry of the rights atta…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Monthly statement of employment contracts

Article D1221-31

At the express request of the departments responsible for employment control, the employer shall provide the addresses of employees whose employment contracts have been concluded or terminated, as ref…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Monthly statement of employment contracts

Article D1221-30

…he company's activity; 3° The surname, first names, nationality, date of birth, sex, job and qualifications of the employees whose employment contracts have been concluded or terminated; 4° The effect…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Revenue.

Article D2573-33

Article D. 2331-3 is applicable to the communes of French Polynesia.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Shareholdings in companies

Article R3231-3

The provisions of articles R. 1511-36 to R. 1511-39 are applicable to the departments.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: General principles relating to the composition of National Professional Councils

Article D4021-3

For each healthcare profession or, where appropriate, for each speciality, the national professional councils ensure balanced representation of the different modes of practice.

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