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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: National Sports Agency

Article L112-16

An agreement of objectives is signed between the State and the National Sports Agency for a period of between three and five calendar years. It determines the public policy actions for sport entrusted…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 216 ter

Corporate entities which subscribe before 1 July 1964 to the initial capital of the sociétés immobilières conventionnées referred to in Order no. 58-876 of 24 September 1958 or to their capital increa…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4°: Reporting obligations

Article 223 Q

The parent company shall file the declaration of overall income for each financial year under the conditions provided for in Article 223. It attaches a statement of grants and debt write-offs not used…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L4031-1

In each region and in the territorial collectivities of Corsica, Guyana and Martinique, a regional union of healthcare professionals brings together, for each profession, the representatives of self-e…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Increased rates for calculating sums representing automatic aid

Article 919-13

In order to take into account the consequences on the attendance of cinematographic establishments of the implementation of the health pass, provided for by decree n° 2021-699 of 1st June 2021 prescri…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Change of matrimonial property regime by application of a foreign law

Article 1303-3

Where the marriage record is kept by a French authority, the change of matrimonial property regime obtained in application of the foreign law governing the effects of the union is mentioned in the mar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L613-50-3

I. - Articles L. 211-36-1 to L. 211-38 do not prevent the application of measures imposed in application of the provisions of this sub-section and of sub-section 9 of this section.II. - Articles L. 21…

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

Article A441-6

Each year, insurance undertakings carrying out the operations defined in Article L. 441-1 must inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of the service value and acquisition value(s)…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Application of laws and regulations in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article LO6413-1

Legislative and regulatory provisions shall apply ipso jure in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, with the exception of those which intervene in matters falling within the jurisdiction of the organic law pursu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Members of the criminal jury

Article R140

Jurors shall be awarded, for the duration of the session, a daily allowance determined by the following formula: I = 6 + (S x 8), in which:I is the amount of the fixed allowance expressed in euros;S i…

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