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Showing 19311940 of 3980 articles for Art. 25 January 2005

French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Tax base

Article 1388 nonies

…roperties must declare to the tax department of the place where the property is located, before 1st January of the first year for which the allowance is applicable and using a model drawn up by the ad…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
E: Special rebates

Article 1398 A

…condition that the pastoral land association submits, on behalf of the owners concerned, before 31 January each year, a declaration to the tax department together with the necessary supporting docume…

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

Article R53-15

…egulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 and in Articles 104 and 105 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978 may be exercised by contacting the Head of the National Forensic Science Service of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Urban equalisation grant.

Article R3334-2

…vailable on the website of the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques on 1st January of the allocation year and, on the other hand, the municipal population of all the communes…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Commercial events

Article A762-9

…mmercial events" of this book. The calculations are carried out in accordance with standards NF ISO 25639-1 of January 2009 "Terminology of the trade fair, exhibition, congress or commercial event sec…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6113-7

…ata concerning them is processed automatically under the conditions laid down by law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and civil liberties;2° That this data is tran…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Informing the person entered in the file

Article R50-38

…ried out by the registrar authorised by the head of the prison in accordance with 4° of article 706-25-9, that the person incarcerated has not been the subject of the information referred to in Articl…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Law applicable to contracts

Article L232-2

…an Union in implementation of Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees, which are ma…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Tax on admission prices to screenings organised by cinema operators

Article L115-4

…ration is filed with the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in a single copy before the 25th of the month following that in which the taxable transactions were carried out.The declaration…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction and powers of Deputy European Public Prosecutors

Article 696-108

…l offences affecting the European Union's financial interests referred to in Articles 4, 22, 23 and 25 of Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation regardi…

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