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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Withholding

Article L521-14

In addition to the cases provided for by the Community regulations in force, the customs administration may, at the written request of the owner of a registered design or the beneficiary of an exclusi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Admission to trading

Article L421-14

…ng on a regulated market is likely to be traded in a fair, orderly and efficient manner and, in the case of the instruments mentioned in 1 and 2 of II of Article L. 211-1, to be traded freely. II - Th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures specific to the safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms

Article R613-14

…gives its decision within twenty-one clear days of receipt of the request for an opinion. In urgent cases, the time limit may be shortened by the president of the court, but may not be less than five…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4: Supervisory body

Article L323-14

…cle L. 323-6; 2° Exercising the powers delegated to it by the General Meeting, in particular in the cases provided for by Article L. 323-7; 3° Issuing an opinion on refusals by the collective manageme…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Tontines.

Article R322-144

…ociations formed by the said companies be deposited, immediately after their acquisition or, as the case may be, entered in an account either at the Caisse des dépôts et consignations or at the Banque…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organs, tissues and cells removed for therapeutic purposes for others.

Article R1211-14

…n the previous paragraph is set by an order of the Minister of Health. This order also sets out the cases in which the doctor may, in the interest of the recipient, proceed with the transplant or the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Duties to patients

Article R4312-14

The free and informed consent of the person being examined or cared for is sought in all cases. If the patient, in a condition to express his/her wishes, refuses the proposed treatment, the nurse shal…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-14

…y or the parent undertaking of a finance company is to acquire interests in subsidiaries or, in the case of a mixed financial holding company, its principal activity as regards financial institutions…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Statutory audit, other engagements and services performed by statutory auditors

Article R823-14

…led to the restricted section of the Haut Conseil du Commissariat aux Comptes, which shall hear the case and give its ruling under the conditions laid down in Articles R. 823-18 paragraph 4 and R. 823…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Qualifying conditions

Article A742-14

…include questions relating to the presentation made, as well as theoretical questions or practical cases relating to:- the organisation and operation of a commercial court,- civil and commercial proc…

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