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Showing 31613170 of 3290 articles for Art. 27 June 2019

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article L621-15

…ticle L. 233-8 of the Commercial Code and Article L. 451-1-2 of this Code;7° Set by Regulation (EU) 2019/1238 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on a pan-European individual…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Provisions common to inheritances and gifts

Article 787 B

…s, entre vifs ou, en pleine propriété, à un fonds de pérennité mentionné à l'article 177 of law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 relating to the growth and transformation of businesses if the following con…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determining taxable income

Article 83

…s Contributions paid in accordance with the provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons and their families movin…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 793

…the beneficiary also undertakes to apply the normal exploitation regime set out in the decree of 28 June 1930 to the woods and forests for the period required to present one of the sustainable managem…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Overall effective rate.

Article R313-1

…to consideration, using the number method defined by B of the appendix to decree no. 2002-928 of 10 June 2002 issued in application of article 1 of decree no. 2002-927 of 10 June 2002, to a period of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
OA: Non-alcoholic drinks

Article 1613 ter

…graph and in the third paragraph of this II are increased on 1 January of each year, from 1 January 2019, in a proportion equal to the growth rate of the consumer price index excluding tobacco for the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative police powers of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article L5145-5

…ed for a limited market, to comply with the requirements laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018;2° The obligation, for the applicant for a marketing authorisation submit…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Characterisation of infringements of rights

Article L331-25

…ctronically on the basis of the information mentioned in 2° of article 19 of law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy; when this information is not available, the authorit…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General information.

Article 38

…f the French Heritage Code; 4° Substances classified as category 1 in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 273/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 on drug precursors; 5° Go…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
j: Contributions or premiums paid to people's pension savings plans or under certain compulsory or optional supplementary pension schemes or in respect of supplementary guarantees under pension savings plans.

Article 163 quatervicies

…l 2001 relating to the Mutual Code and transposing Council Directives 92/49/EEC and 92/96/EEC of 18 June and 10 November 1992, for their collective operations referred to in article L. 222-1 of the Mu…

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