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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article L713-3-2

…ulation there, is also prohibited where these goods, including packaging, come from third countries and are, without the proprietor's authorisation, covered by a sign identical to the trade mark regis…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article L713-1

The registration of a trade mark confers on its proprietor a right of ownership in respect of that trade mark for the goods or services which it has designated.This right is exercised without prejudic…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Composition and operation of the artistic committee

Article R2172-19

…5° Two people qualified in the field of visual arts, one of whom is appointed by the project owner and the other by the ambassador.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Composition and operation of the artistic committee

Article R2172-18

For operations located on national territory, the artistic committee mentioned in article R. 2172-9 is made up of the following members: 1° The project owner or his representative, who chairs the comm…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Design-build contracts

Article R2371-1

The provisions of article R. 2171-1 apply.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Global performance contracts

Article R2371-2

Subject to the application of the provisions of article L. 2391-5, the prices of the services for the construction, operation or maintenance of the overall performance contract appear separately.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-21

…way of the trunk road. After the expiry of the one-year period, any installation or occupation of land that is made on the occasion of this fair or market and does not take account of the decision of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-26

No person other than these employees or servants may, within the precincts of the markets, halls and ports, exercise the profession of weigher, measurer and gauge, on pain of confiscation of the instr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-18-1

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-20

No fair or market, even a simple supply market, may be set up on a site included, in whole or in part, within the rights-of-way of a national road classified as a trunk road.

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