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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative composition

Article R232-89

…h this presumption is based; 2° The sanctions and consequences incurred pursuant to Articles L. 232-21 to L. 232-23-6 and those proposed by the Secretary General of the Agency pursuant to Article L. 2…

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

Article L522-11

…rôle prudentiel et de résolution, which may impose all the penalties provided for in Article L. 613-21 of this Code. It may not refer to its status as a payment institution without specifying that it…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Annual consultation on company social policy, working conditions and employment

Article L2312-26

…ilable to the committee, under the conditions set out in the agreement mentioned in article L. 2312-21 or, in the absence of an agreement, in sub-paragraph 4:1° Information on trends in employment, qu…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-12

…e related undertaking concerned: a) Surplus funds covered by the second paragraph of Article R. 351-21, of a related life insurance or reinsurance undertaking of the undertaking mentioned in the first…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article D7231-1

…e who temporarily need personal help in their own home, excluding care involving medical procedures;21° Coordination and provision of the services mentioned in this article.III - The activities mentio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Local electronic communications networks and services

Article L1425-2

…rities and their groupings to the management of the reference data referred to in II of article L. 321-4 of the Code des relations entre le public et l'administration (Code of relations between the pu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Resources of the deposit guarantee and resolution fund

Article L312-7

…ons. Contributions are payable by members of the fund who are approved or carrying on business on 1 January of the year in respect of which the contributions are levied. They may be paid by members by…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Overall capital gains or losses

Article 223 D

…tal gain is subject to separate taxation under the conditions provided for in a bis of I of article 219.The amount net of tax of the overall net long-term capital gain must be included, in the parent…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Operating conditions.

Article L4151-5

…idwife issued by a Member State or a Member State Party, attesting to training that began before 18 January 2016.The list of certificates that must accompany evidence of formal qualifications is set b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Direct taxes and assimilated taxes. Income tax. Corporation tax. Duties and penalties

Article 1668

…poration tax calculated on the income taxed at the rate set in the second paragraph of I of article 219, on the income taxed at the rate set in b of I of Article 219 and on income taxed under the cond…

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