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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-21

I.-Natural persons guilty of the offence referred to in article L. 1126-20 shall also be liable to the following penalties: 1° Disqualification from civic, civil and family rights, in accordance with…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for registration on the list of court-appointed administrators

Article A811-7

The written eligibility tests comprise: 1° A test lasting three hours on the national law of companies in difficulty. The mark is assigned a coefficient of 6. 2° A test lasting three hours consisting…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Loans, profit participation certificates and mutualist certificates.

Article R322-80-2

The maximum proportion of the profits of the last financial year and previous financial years that may be allocated annually to the remuneration of mutualist certificates is equal to 10% of the sum of…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction.

Article 39

…the judgment shall not be subject to appeal where none of the incidental claims exceeds the rate of last resort. If any of them exceeds that rate, the judge shall rule at first instance on all the cla…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for registration on the lists of judicial representatives

Article A812-7

…on the national law of companies in difficulty. The mark is assigned a coefficient of 6. 2° A test lasting three hours consisting of the resolution of a practical accounting case corresponding to the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Issue and maintenance of plant variety certificates

Article R623-49

Any notification shall be deemed to be in order if it is made to the last owner of the application for a plant variety certificate, or of the plant variety certificate as it appears in the Register of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Common provisions

Article R514-3

Any notification is deemed to be in order if it is made: 1° Either to the last holder of the filing declared to the Institute or, after the publication provided for in Article R. 512-10, to the last h…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Procedure.

Article L145-59

The landlord's decision to refuse to renew the lease, pursuant to the last paragraph of article L. 145-57, or to evade payment of the indemnity, under the conditions set out in the last paragraph of a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Nullity, dissolution and liquidation.

Article R4113-88

…ipso jure by a request for withdrawal made either simultaneously by all the shareholders or by the last of them. Dissolution takes place on the date on which the Company is notified of the simultaneo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VI: Markets of national interest and commercial events.

Article A762-17

Personal data are kept on computer for a period of five years from the date on which they were last modified.Non-personal data are kept on computer for a period of ten years from the date on which the…

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