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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Content and transmission of declarations

Article D561-32-1

I. - The declaration provided for in II of Article L. 561-15 shall be made by the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 in accordance with the specific nature of their profession, in accordance with…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2b: Companies located in urban tax-free zones - entrepreneurial areas

Article 44 octies A

I. - Taxpayers who, between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2023, create activities in the zones franches urbaines-territoires entrepreneurs defined in the B du 3 de l'article 42 de la loi n° 95-115 of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: French Paralympic and Sports Committee

Article L141-7

…Intellectual Property Code.III - By way of exception to Article II and for acts committed between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2024, the rights and actions arising from this Article shall be exercis…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Guarantee for sureties

Article L313-51

…inance company that has been the subject of safeguard or receivership proceedings initiated after 1 January 1996 and that has been unable to honour these commitments in full. For the application of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Municipalities and their groupings

Article L1422-1

…orce of section 4 of title II of law no. 83-663 of 22nd July 1983 supplementing law no. 83-8 of 7th January 1983 relating to the division of powers between the municipalities, departments, regions and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 212

…bre 2018 de finances pour 2019, not charged at the close of the last financial year opened before 1 January 2019 shall be deductible under the same conditions as the undeducted net financial expenses…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Optional taxable transactions

Article 260

…the business of a lessee liable for value added tax or, if the lease is entered into on or after 1 January 1991, for the purposes of the business of a non-taxable lessee. The option cannot be exercis…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Accommodation

Article L552-7

…to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and by Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms.A decree in the Conseil d'Etat s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of elements and products of the human body.

Article L1542-1

…plicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, in the wording resulting from Law no. 2016-41 of 26 January 2016 on the modernisation of our healthcare system, subject to the following adaptations:1°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of elements and products of the human body.

Article L1542-5

…2021-1017 of 2 August 2021 on bioethics and subject to the adaptations provided for in Article L. 1542-6.Article L. 1231-2 is applicable in French Polynesia in the version resulting from Law no. 202…

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