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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-18-6

…when the counterparty is a non-financial counterparty or a person or entity mentioned in 7° and 7° bis of II of Article L. 621-9. The Autorité des marchés financiers is also competent to supervise th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 54 septies

I. - Companies placed under one of the regimes provided for by 5 bis, 5 ter and 7 to 7 ter of Article 38, Article 38 septies, IIa of Article 208 C and articles 151 octies, 151 octies A, 151 octies B,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1464 A

Municipalities and their public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax authority may, by a general decision taken under the conditions defined in article 1639 A bis, exempt…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Withholding tax on income from shares and similar income, where the beneficiaries do not have their real domicile or registered office in France, and on interest and bond income

Article 1672

1. The withholding tax provided for in 1 of Article 119 bis shall be paid by the person making the distribution, who shall be responsible for withholding the amount from the sums paid to the beneficia…

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French Customs CodeIn force
D. - Claiming seized objects.

Article 376

1. Seized or confiscated objects may not be claimed by their owners, nor may the price, whether deposited or not, be claimed by creditors, even preferential creditors, except in the case of their reco…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Special provisions for certain employees.

Article L5424-5-1

Employers mentioned in 4° bis of article L. 5424-1 who have exercised the option mentioned in 2° of article L. 5424-2 shall pay, in addition to the contribution provided for in 1° of article L. 5422-9…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter V: The adversarial procedure prior to decision-making

Article 67 B

…tration under the conditions provided for in the penultimate paragraph of II and III of article 345 bis, do not contain any errors, inaccuracies, omissions or shortcomings in the calculation of the du…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Value added tax

Article L334-3

…ornographic nature or inciting to violence broadcast on video is governed by b of 3° of article 279 bis of the General Tax Code. The same provisions apply to the application of the reduced rate of val…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L2312-37

…2° Restructuring and downsizing of the workforce;3° Collective redundancies for economic reasons;3° bis Merger;4° Takeover bids;5° Safeguard, receivership and compulsory liquidation procedures.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-20-1

…the investigating judge, seals and samples relating to the traces and samples mentioned in 1°, 1° bis, 3° and 4° of I and 1° and 2° of III of Article R. 53-10 are sent, when the analysis has been ca…

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