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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Accounting of the Banque de France

Article R144-8

…he end of the financial year. Articles L. 820-3-1, L. 822-1, L. 822-3, L. 822-10, L. 822-17, L. 822-18, L. 823-1, L. 823-2, L. 823-3, L. 823-4, L. 823-5, L. 823-7, L. 823-8, L. 823-10, L. 823-12, L. 8…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single title

Article R811-1-1

…2022-928 of 23 June 2022. 2° The provisions of Book II in their wording, resulting from decree no. 2017-338 of 15 March 2017;Articles R. 211-2 and R. 211-3 are applicable in their wording resulting f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting tariffs

Article R444-2

…activity": the proportion of the activity of the professionals in a profession remunerated by fees; 18° "Regulated turnover of the profession": cumulative sum of emoluments received by the professiona…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-11

…the Convention on the Statute of the International Criminal Court, opened for signature in Rome on 18 July 1998, any person suspected of having committed abroad one of the following offences may be p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Livret A passbook savings accounts.

Article R221-9

…of businesses that meet the criteria set out in European Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 defining micro, small and medium-sized enterprises; 2° To finance projects by legal entitie…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-7-4

…ents constituted in respect of the operations governed by this chapter represent, as at 31 December 2017, more than 80% of all the technical provisions within the meaning of Title IV of Book III, cons…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Common provisions (R)

Article D1612-15-1

…r metropolises, the obligation to transmit by electronic means applies to documents relating to the 2017 financial year and to the administrative account relating to the 2016 financial year.III. - For…

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

Article 238 octies A

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Financial penalties imposed by the administrative authority responsible for competition and consumer affairs

Article L5473-1

…responsible for competition and consumer affairs mentioned in article L. 522-1 of the Consumer Code may impose a financial penalty on the perpetrator of an infringement mentioned in articles L. 5461-9…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: European FIA management companies

Article L532-21-3

I.-The provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 532-18 and of the first paragraph of article L. 532-18-1 as well as the provisions of Section 2 of Chapter IV of Title I of Book II are applicabl…

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