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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-8

The guaranteed capital or annuity may be payable on the death of the insured to one or more specified beneficiaries. A stipulation is considered to have been made for the benefit of specific beneficia…

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

Article L712-8

The applicant may request that a trade mark be registered notwithstanding opposition to it if he can show that such registration is indispensable for the protection of the trade mark abroad. If the op…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L3512-8

Smoking is prohibited in public places, particularly schools, and on public transport, except in areas expressly reserved for smokers.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financing

Article L2312-84

In the event of a budgetary surplus, the members of the staff delegation of the social and economic committee may decide, by deliberation, to transfer all or part of the amount of the annual surplus f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financing

Article L2312-81

The contribution paid each year by the employer to finance the social institutions of the social and economic committee is set by company agreement. In the absence of an agreement, the ratio of this c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Practice of the professions.

Article L4241-8

Pharmacy assistants may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which issued them. He must indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. Where the eviden…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use

Article L5438-8

Legal entities declared criminally liable, under the conditions set out in article 121-2 of the French Criminal Code, for the offences set out in this chapter shall incur, in addition to the fine set…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Compensation procedures.

Article L211-8

The provisions of this section apply, even where they are being carried under contract, to the victims of a road traffic accident involving a land motor vehicle and its trailers or semi-trailers, with…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Misleading commercial practices

Article L132-8

The cessation of the misleading commercial practice may be ordered by the investigating judge or by the court hearing the case, either at the request of the public prosecutor or ex officio. The measur…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Economic and social measures

Article L3231-8

Where, in a public limited company, a département is a member or chairman of the board of directors, a member of the management board or a member or chairman of the supervisory board, the civil liabil…

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