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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART FOUR

Article Annexe 41-2

…3rd step 4th step 5th step 0 16 010 12 940 11 430 9 940 8 490 1 17 790 14 370 12 700 11 050 9 420 2 19 580 15 810 13 980 12 160 10 350 3 21 360 17 250 15 240 13 260 11 300 4 23 130 18 690 16 510 14 36…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Internal taxes.

Article 266 nonies

…n of the storage facilities for non-hazardous waste concerned Unit of collection Quota (in euros) 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 From 2025 B.-Authorised plants recovering more than 75% of the biogas ca…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-1

…° Maintenance of public buildings and roads; 2° The maintenance of networks paid for from 1 January 2020; 3° The provision of cloud computing solutions determined by a joint order of the ministers in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Electronic transmission of budget documents to the State representative

Article D1612-15-1

…bitants, the obligation to transmit by electronic means applies to budget documents relating to the 2020 financial year.The population to be taken into account for the application of this article is t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation.

Article L5215-1

…quired for urban communities existing on the date of publication of the loi n° 99-586 du 12 juillet 1999 relative au renforcement et à la simplification de la coopération intercommunale. The creation…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Safeguard measures relating to insurance undertakings

Article R335-2

…the minimum margin requirement referred to in Article R. 334-5, Article R. 334-13 or Article R. 334-19, as the case may be. However, the total level of solvency margin required may not exceed twice th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Name and territory of the municipality

Article L2573-3

I.-The articles L. 2113-1 to L. 2113-19, the articles L. 2113-21 to L. 2113-25 and the second paragraph of article L. 2113-26, as they read prior to the loi n° 2010-1563 du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3 : Assignment of civil servants from the corps d'encadrement et d'application de la police nationale with the status of judicial police officer to the departments referred to in article 16 (4°)

Article A35

…ontre l'immigration irrégulière et le travail illégal des étrangers cité au a du 5 de article R. 15-19 of the Code of Criminal Procedure;-the police department responsible for the safety of people and…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents and European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-1

This section relates to the application of: 1° of the Convention signed in Munich on 5 October 1973, hereinafter referred to as the "Munich Convention"; 2° the Agreement on a Unified Patent Jurisdicti…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L2241-1

…operty belonging to a section of a municipality, to the provisions of articles L. 2411-1 to L. 2411-19. The balance sheet of acquisitions and disposals carried out on the territory of a municipality w…

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