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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Payment service providers

Article L572-5

…ce was committed, for a period of up to five years, in accordance with the provisions ofarticle 131-27 of the Criminal Code; 3° Closure, for a maximum of five years, of the establishments or one or mo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L4363-2

…n the exercise of which the offence was committed, in accordance with the provisions of article 131-27 of the Criminal Code; d) Permanent closure or closure for a maximum of five years of the establis…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Judgment of compulsory liquidation.

Article L641-3

…claims to the liquidator in accordance with the procedures set out in articles L. 622-24 to L. 622-27 and L. 622-31 to L. 622-33. If the determination of the tax base and calculation of the tax is in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-28

…on may be granted under the conditions set out in the second and third paragraphs of Article R. 612-27. The Minister of Defence may notify the Director of the Institut national de la propriété industr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 972 bis

…entioned in article L. 214-24-24 of the same code, private equity funds mentioned in article L. 214-27 of the said code, funds of alternative funds mentioned in article L. 214-139 of the same code, ge…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1458

…of the activity they carry out in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 of Law no. 87-39 of 27 January 1987 on various social measures.4° Press salespersons by virtue of the activity they carr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Distribution of the proceeds of road traffic fines

Article L2334-25-1

Net revenue losses resulting from I to V of Article 63 of Law No. 2014-58 of 27 January 2014 on the modernisation of territorial public action and the affirmation of metropolises are compensated for t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Revenue from the investment section

Article L2573-44

…ces: "to 4° and 6°";2° A second paragraph is added as follows:"When the expenditure provided for in 27°, 28° and 29° of Article L. 2321-2 result in an increase in operating expenditure of more than 0.…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Restrictions on borrowing terms and conditions and on entering into financial contracts

Article R1611-33

…The interest rates on passbook savings accounts defined in articles L. 221-1 , L. 221-13 and L. 221-27 of the Monetary and Financial Code.II. - The indexation formula for variable interest rates on lo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial responsibility

Article R1611-37

…014-873 of 4 August 2014 for real equality between women and men, and of the decree no. 2015-354 of 27 March 2015 relating to equal access for women and men to commissions and consultative bodies repo…

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