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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Internal taxes.

Article 266 quindecies

…for an incentive tax on the use of renewable energy in transport.For the purposes of this article: 1° Petrol refers to products in the petrol tax category within the meaning of Article L. 312-22 of t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1a: The European Public Prosecutor's Office

Article 344-3

…ed for in Article 27(1) of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017: 1° By way of derogation from Article 343(2) of this Code, the action for the enforcement of tax pena…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Title XI: Free trade zones.

Article 289

Goods placed in free zones may be subject to:1° Loading, unloading, transhipment or storage operations ;2° Handling as provided for in article 153-1 above;3° Processing, working or additional labour,…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Miscellaneous duties and taxes.

Article 285 octies

…438/EEC, a fee shall be levied on imports into the customs territory, under all customs procedures: 1° Foodstuffs of non-animal origin subject to enhanced controls and listed in Annex I to Commission…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions.

Article 258

1° The following are also reserved for ships operated by shipowners who are nationals of a Member State of the European Community or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Ar…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Prevention of offences committed via the Internet

Article 67 D-5

For the purposes of this chapter: 1° Intermediaries are online platform operators, within the meaning of Article 3(i) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 O…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter V: The adversarial procedure prior to decision-making

Article 67 D-3

The following do not give rise to a prior exchange of views: 1° Decisions leading to the notification of offences provided for in this Code and decisions to carry out the checks provided for in Chapte…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General rules.

Article 113

…icle 292 of the General Tax Code; c) Where applicable, the validity of the identifiers mentioned in 1° of 3 of article 293 A of the same code has not been verified.2. Goods brought into customs office…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter IVa: Consultation of automated data processing for the purposes of customs controls

Article 67 sexies

…eans of transport.The following are excluded from the transmission mentioned in the first paragraph:1° The data mentioned in I of article 6 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 59 septdecies

…her spontaneously or on request, all documents and information held or collected and required for : 1° To investigate and establish infringements of the provisions of Chapter II of Title I of Book I o…

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