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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment

Article R4321-28-2

The regional directorate for youth, sport and social cohesion provides the committee's secretariat.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative penalties

Article L241-2

In the contracts mentioned in article L. 212-1, the presence of one or more unfair terms covered by the decree issued pursuant to the fourth paragraph of Article L. 212-1 is punishable by an administr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-26

Delegates of the Minister of Defence, specially empowered for this purpose and whose names and capacities have been brought to the attention of the Director of the National Institute of Industrial Pro…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-28

The request from the Minister for Defence for an extension of the prohibitions on disclosure and free exploitation of an invention which is the subject of a patent application, including when the latt…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-27

The request for authorisation to disclose and freely exploit the invention which is the subject of a patent application, before the end of the five-month period provided for in article L. 612-9, shall…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-29

The request for compensation for the loss caused by the extension of the prohibitions on disclosure and free exploitation is sent by the owner of the patent application to the Minister of Defence by r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 5: Simplified accounting presentation.

Article D123-200

For the application of articles L. 123-16 and L. 123-16-1:1° In the case of micro-enterprises, the balance sheet total is set at 350,000 euros, the net turnover at 700,000 euros and the average number…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The community council.

Article R5215-2

When the decree or act referred to in article R. 5215-1 is issued within a period of one year before the general renewal of the municipal councils, the seats shall not be reallocated before this renew…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Requirements for experience or work placements in addition to the master's degree referred to in article L. 811-5

Article A811-25

The list of acts performed by the trainee provided for in Article R. 811-28-2 is set out in I of Annex 8-1-1 to this book.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Requirements for experience or work placements in addition to the master's degree referred to in article L. 811-5

Article A811-23

In application of Article 1 of the Order of 4 February 2014 establishing the nomenclature of terms for the national master's degree, the title of the degree mentioned in Article L. 811-5 is as follows…

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