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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant breeding

Article L623-14

Applications for plant variety certificates, acts granting the certificate and any acts transmitting or modifying the rights attached to an application for a certificate or to a certificate may only b…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: Explanations provided to borrowers and assessment of their creditworthiness

Article L313-14

Advice is considered to be independent if it is provided on the basis of a sufficiently large number of credit agreements available on the market and if its provision does not give rise to any remuner…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation and performance of the contract

Article L341-14

Making the borrower or buyer subscribe to or accept or endorse bills of exchange or promissory notes is punishable by a fine of 300,000 euros.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter V: Life mortgage and transfer advance loan

Article L315-14

The debtor also loses the benefit of the term when he changes the use of the mortgaged property or when he refuses the creditor access to the mortgaged property to ensure that it is in a good state of…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-14

Officers are empowered to carry out administrative checks to determine the characteristics of products or services or assess their dangerous nature.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: APPEALS TO THE NATIONAL COURT ON ASYLUM RIGHTS

Article L532-14

In order to ensure the proper administration of justice and to enable applicants to present their explanations to the court, the president of the National Court of Asylum may provide for mobile hearin…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter IV: DETENTION ARRANGEMENTS

Article L744-14

Representatives of humanitarian associations may be authorised to visit places of administrative detention.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter IV: CONTENTIOUS PROCEEDINGS

Article L614-14

If the foreign national is detained, he/she shall be informed in a language he/she understands, as soon as the decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory is notified, that he/she may, e…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to the ruling on the application to extend detention

Article L743-14

The liberties and detention judge determines the places in which the foreign national is assigned to residence. At the judge's request, the foreign national shall provide evidence that the premises as…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Town Council

Article L2121-14

The town council is chaired by the mayor or, in his absence, by the person who replaces him. In meetings where the mayor's administrative account is debated, the town council elects its chairman. In t…

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