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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: General provisions

Article 810

I. - Contributions are registered free of charge.II. - (Repealed).III. - The standard rate of registration duty or land registration tax levied on the contributions referred to in 3° of I, I bis and I…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1456

…agraph. The corresponding duties are increased by the late payment interest provided for in Article 1727, deducted from the date on which these taxes should have been paid.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Economic and social measures

Article L3231-6

All shareholdings in the capital of a commercial company or any other profit-making body whose purpose is not to operate departmental services or activities of general interest under conditions simila…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5421-2

I. - It is an offence to market, broker or distribute, whether free of charge or for a consideration, wholesale or retail, a proprietary medicinal product, any other medicinal product manufactured ind…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Implementation of placement under mobile electronic surveillance

Article R61-33

When the sentence enforcement judge makes a decision to place a person under mobile electronic surveillance, pursuant to the fourth paragraph of article 763-3, this measure may only concern an adult w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: The decision or opinion of the departmental committee.

Article R752-29-2

Within fifteen clear days of the registration of an application for authorisation to operate a business at the secretariat of the departmental commission for a project mentioned in the first or second…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Board of Directors

Article R6123-6

The Board of Directors comprises fifteen members appointed by order of the Minister for Vocational Training as follows: 1° A college consisting of three representatives of the State with forty-five vo…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-1

…uropean Enforcement Order for uncontested claims;- Articles 5, 9 and 14.1 of Regulation (EU) No 606/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on the mutual recognition of prot…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 199 terdecies-0 C

…ion mentioned in 1 of this article is subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 239 bis AB

…vered by Article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it read prior to the ordonnance n° 2013-676 du 25 juillet 2013 modifying the legal framework for asset management, professional private…

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