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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title IV: Other service providers

Article D541-9

…a financial investment adviser pursuant to article L. 541-3 includes cover that takes effect on 1st March for a period of twelve months. The contract is tacitly renewed on 1st January of each year.II.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: General obligations

Article 286 quater

…ities of materials used and processed products delivered. 2. (Repealed with effect from 1st January 1996). 3. Service providers, other than processors, who carry out work and valuations relating to ta…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Fire and rescue services

Article R1424-1

…who, subject to specific rules laid down in application of article 23 of the loi n° 96-370 du 3 mai 1996 relative au développement du volontariat dans les corps de sapeurs-pompiers, ne peuvent exercer…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article R214-210

Articles L. 214-24-29, L. 214-24-33, L. 214-24-34, L. 214-24-41, L. 214-24-55, R. 214-32-33, R. 214-32-35 and R. 214-32-40 as well as this paragraph are applicable to each of the sub-funds of company…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-12

…of article L. 231-1, articles L. 231-5, L. 231-6, L. 236-1, L. 236-2 and L. 236-4 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, with the exception of those relating to primary production and those relating…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Tax on television service publishers and distributors

Article L115-11

…y within the same deadlines as those applicable to the value added tax declaration for the month of March or the first quarter of the calendar year. The return includes the information needed to calcu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 216 ter

…hares in sociétés immobilières conventionnées set up after the promulgation of law no. 63-254 of 15 March 1963 may not, under any circumstances, give entitlement to the benefit of the provisions of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-14

…954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, done at The Hague on 26 March 1999, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid down in Article 689-1 any person w…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L2423-2

…with it.II. - Article L. 2223-2 is applicable in its wording resulting from Law No. 2017-347 of 20 March 2017 relating to the extension of the offence of obstructing the voluntary termination of preg…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Debt securities

Article L744-5

…3 of 14 December 2000 L. 213-6 law n° 2003-706 of 1st August 2003 L. 213-6-1 law no. 2006-387 of 31 March 2006 L. 213-6-2 order no. 2019-964 of 18 September 2019 L. 213-6-3 Order no. 2019-1067 of 21 O…

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