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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Life insurance and capitalisation operations

Article A132-9-2

…1 of this code;d) An indication of the main characteristics of the units of account selected, which may be validly done by providing the key information document or the specific information document p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R713-8

I.-Any elector who meets the conditions set out in Article L. 713-4 may stand as a candidate in his sub-category or, failing that, in his professional category. No person may be a candidate in more th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-23

…company's staff and by the staff of companies affiliated to it within the meaning of article L. 225-180 represent more than 3% of the company's share capital, one or more directors are elected by the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-38

…into contact with foodstuffs 2° the provisions of Articles 1 to 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1895/2005 of 18 November 2005 on the restriction of the use of certain epoxy derivatives in material…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 AA quater

…gressive depreciation rate 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 of the…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R222-10

…to natural persons: 1° who, unless exempted by the application of the provisions of articles R. 222-18, R. 222-19, last paragraph, or R. 222-27, have passed the examination mentioned in article R. 222…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Branches of insurance undertakings whose head office is situated in a State which is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R329-1

…der the conditions set out in Articles R. 321-1, R. 321-3, R. 321-5, R. 321-14, R. 321-16 to R. 321-18, if this undertaking is authorised to carry on insurance business under the national legislation…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose and award conditions

Article 831-2

…was calculated on the basis of a tariff lower than the "blue" tariff provided for in article R. 337-18 of the Energy Code, the doubling is assessed on the basis of an amount recalculated on the basis…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Property tax on undeveloped land

Article 1394 B bis

…d in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth categories defined in article 18 of the ministerial instruction of 31 December 1908 are exempt from property tax on non-built prop…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations to be made by legal entities

Article A123-19

…shment of a European Economic Interest Grouping, to the formalities provided for in Articles A. 123-18, A. 123-58 and A. 123-75. In addition to the documents provided for in Article A. 123-58, the doc…

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