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French General Tax CodeIn force
2nd Subsection: Overall income

Article 163 bis G

…s covered by article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code in its version prior to Order no. 2013-676 of 25 July 2013 amending the legal framework for asset management, professional private equ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Authorisation of payment institutions

Article L522-11-1

…orised. II. - The provisions of section 3 of this chapter, other than articles L. 522-17 and L. 522-18, do not apply to the institutions mentioned in the first paragraph. These establishments are not…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
New regulatory part

Article Annexe à l'article D. 211-3 du code de la consommation

…ne of up to 300,000 euros, which may be increased to 10% of average annual turnover (article L. 242-18-1 of the French Consumer Code). The consumer also benefits from the legal guarantee against hidde…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
New regulatory part

Article Annexe à l'article D. 211-4 du code de la consommation

…ne of up to 300,000 euros, which may be increased to 10% of average annual turnover (article L. 242-18-1 of the French Consumer Code). The consumer also benefits from the legal guarantee against hidde…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Responsibilities

Article L2122-22

…nd exchange rate hedging transactions, and to take the decisions referred to in III of Article L. 1618-2 and in a of article L. 2221-5-1, subject to the provisions of c of this same article, and to pa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Application for marketing authorisation or registration

Article D5141-55

…Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products and repealing Directive 2001/82/EC; b) A veterinary medicinal pr…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
APPENDIX TO BOOK II

Article

…nal music for the film; 17° A copy of the contract between the production company and the composer; 18° Where applicable, a copy of the contract between the production company and a music publisher or…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Appendices

Article Sommaire

…15. Payment of court rulings 16. Repayment of loans and fees 17. Taxes, duties and similar payments 18. Settlement and reprieve of debt Heading 2. Staff costs 21. Staff costs of local authorities, the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Combating mirror sites

Article L331-29

Any software publisher, any technical system manufacturer and any service operator may, in the event of refusal of access to information essential to interoperability, ask the Audiovisual and Digital…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Calculation of tax

Article 195

1. By way of derogation from the foregoing provisions, the taxable income of single, divorced or widowed taxpayers who do not have any children in their exclusive, main or deemed equally shared parent…

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