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Showing 211220 of 4965 articles for Art. 16 July 1992

French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Departmental committee for direct taxes and turnover taxes

Article 1651 A

…l category.The taxpayers' representatives, other than the chartered accountant mentioned in Article 1651, are chosen from among the professionals in their category.II. - For associations governed by t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1639 A

I. - Subject to the provisions of Article 1639 A bis, local authorities and competent bodies shall notify the tax departments, before 15 April each year, of decisions relating either to the rates or t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Composition and management of the plan.

Article L3332-16

…e fund's assets may be invested in company shares. Notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 214-165 of the French Monetary and Financial Code, the members of the Supervisory Board are elected by a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to the Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L632-16

…t the Autorité des marchés financiers, by way of derogation from the provisions of Law 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the communication of documents and information of a financial or technical nat…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article L612-16

…apply either to the time limits provided for in the second and third paragraphs, to Article L. 612-16-1 and the time limits for filing and correcting a declaration of priority prescribed by regulatio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
TITLE XXXII: PROCEDURE APPLICABLE TO OFFENCES RELATING TO THE PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND THEIR MEANS OF DELIVERY

Article 706-167

…f delivery systems for weapons of mass destruction as provided for in articles L. 2339-14 à L. 2339-16 of the same code; 5° The offences of smuggling, importing or exporting provided for in the second…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Responsibilities

Article R1233-16

…7, L. 2312-9 to L. 2312-14, the fourth to sixth paragraphs of article L. 2312-15, articles L. 2312-16 to L. 2312-36, from 3° to 5° of article L. 2312-37 and articles L. 2312-40 to L. 2312-69 and L. 2…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Common provisions

Article L312-16

…Fund established by Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2014 ;9° The conditions under which branches of credit institutions referred to in I of Article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Governance system

Article R385-16

…surance (Solvency II), in the version in force on the date of publication of Decree 2017-1171 of 18 July 2017 laying down the rules applicable to supplementary occupational pension funds, is applicabl…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 0I bis: Reduction in direct local tax bases

Article 1635 sexies

…ostes et de la distribution de la presse, in accordance with IV of Article 6 of Law no. 90-568 of 2 July 1990 relating to the organisation of the public postal service and France Télécom ;4° The rate…

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