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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Investor protection

Article L764-10

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, in the wording i…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
11: Business value added tax

Article 1679 septies

Companies whose business value added contribution for the year preceding the year of taxation exceeds €1,500 must pay:- no later than 15 June of the year of taxation, a first instalment equal to 50% o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Professional secrecy

Article L511-34

Companies established in France which are part of a financial group or a group comprising at least one finance company or, for the application of 2° of this article, a group within the meaning of arti…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia and New Caledonia

Article D351-7

For the application of article D. 351-6: 1° Are replaced by locally applicable provisions having the same effect: a) The references to the Labour Code; b) The references to the agreement of 10 June 20…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-3

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the incident and whose statutory purpose includes defending or assisting children at risk and victims of all forms…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Beneficiaries

Article L5141-1

The following may benefit from aid for setting up or taking over a business, under the conditions laid down in this chapter, when they set up or take over an economic, industrial, commercial, craft, a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1464 M

I. - Communes and their public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status may, by a general deliberation taken under the conditions defined in article 1639 A bis, exempt e…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R752-4

I. - Subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R753-4

I. - Subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicate…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5: Special regime applicable to forestry operations

Article 76

1. With regard to woods, oseraies, alder groves and willow groves located in France, the taxable agricultural profit from the felling of woodland is set at a sum equal to the income used as the basis…

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