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Showing 38013810 of 4860 articles for Art. 18 December 2019

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article R743-1

…d column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 211-1No. 2018-1226 of 24 December 2018R. 211-2 to R. 211-6no. 2023-421 of 31 May 2023R. 211-7 to R. 211-9n° 200…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article R744-1

…d column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 211-1no. 2018-1226 of 24 December 2018R. 211-2 to R. 211-6no. 2023-421 of 31 May 2023R. 211-7 to R. 211-9n° 200…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Exemptions of more than two years

Article 1384 A

…for home-ownership housing for the completion of which no loan application was submitted before 31 December 1983.This exemption does not apply to housing financed by means of the repayable interest-f…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-12

…y attorney or a profession provided for in Title IV bis of the aforementioned Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 or the management of related professional interests or family interests ;3° With the s…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative penalties

Article L241-2

…uant to Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consume…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2c: Marine fishing companies

Article 44 nonies

…ishermen, subject to a real tax regime, who set up for the first time between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2010, are determined, for the first sixty months of activity, after deduction of a 50% allo…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Approval of investments

Article 211-49

…television services other than cinema, under the conditions laid down by decree no. 2021-1926 of 30 December 2021 relating to the contribution to the production of cinematographic and audiovisual work…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-8

…nts or breaches of the provisions: 1° Of the third paragraph of article 10 of Law no. 71-1130 of 31 December 1971 reforming certain judicial and legal professions, in compliance with the professional…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Categories of revenue

Article L2331-1

…sive deduction made by the State from the proceeds of gambling in casinos; 2° Repealed; 3° Until 31 December 1995, the proceeds of the tax on the use of public slaughterhouses.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of the agency

Article 706-163

…revenues mentioned in this 4°, capped in accordance with I of Article 46 of Law no. 2011-1977 of 28 December 2011 on finance for 2012 of the confiscated sums managed by the agency as well as, of the p…

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