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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant breeding

Article L623-38

I. - Where detention, as provided for by European Union regulations and relating to goods suspected of infringing a plant variety certificate, is implemented before an application by the holder of the…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Member of the staff delegation of the social and economic committee and local representative

Article L2421-4

The procedure provided for in this sub-section also applies to an employee holding one of the following mandates:1° Member of the special negotiating body and member of the European Works Council ;2°…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases.

Article L3841-3

Article L. 3136-1 is applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the version resulting from Law no. 2022-1089 of 30 July 2022 putting an end to the exceptional regimes created to combat the ep…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Special regulations concerning certain assets of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-15

Pursuant to the provisions of 9° bis of article R. 332-2, companies are authorised to hold the units or shares of companies whose object is strictly real estate, with the exception of companies whose…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Scope of free transfer duties

Article 752

Shares, bonds, founders' or beneficiaries' shares, assets or rights placed in a trust defined in article 792-0 bis, company shares and any other claims of which the deceased was the owner or received…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Provisions common to property tax on built-up and non-built-up properties

Article 1406

I. - New constructions, as well as changes in the consistency or use of built and unbuilt properties, are notified by the owners to the administration, within ninety days of their final completion and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5 : Payment by bank transfer or direct debit

Article 1681 quinquies

1. The levies provided for in Articles 117 quater and 125 A and the levies established, liquidated and recovered according to the same rules, as well as the withholding tax provided for in Article 119…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1-1: Single integration contract.

Article L5134-19-1

The contrat unique d'insertion (single integration contract) is an employment contract concluded between an employer and an employee under the conditions set out in sub-section 3 of sections 2 and 5 o…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article R2335-16

…ticle L. 2335-17 : 1° The population, financial potential and demographic strata used for the distribution of the allocation are those calculated, for the same year, for the distribution of the global…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I

Article A38-5-2

…f 16 June 2009 as amended relating to the decentralised departments of the Directorate-General of Public Finance and by derogation from Articles A. 38-3 to A. 38-5-1, the Ile-de-France and Paris Regio…

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