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Showing 19711980 of 2669 articles for Art. 30 janv. 2002

French General Tax CodeIn force
19°: Urban development zones

Article 148

…st in securities denominated in foreign currencies, in accordance with article 165 of the decree of 30 December 1938, and insofar as the securities correspond to compulsory technical reserves calculat…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 4: Special measures.

Article 20

…metres and 1.52 euros per cubic metre above 100,000 cubic metres; b) A financial levy amounting to 30% of their customs value, on goods of French origin or destined for France, transported on board v…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Internal taxes.

Article 266 decies

…members of the air quality monitoring organisations provided for by article 3 of law no. 96-1236 of 30 December 1996 on air and the rational use of energy, are authorised to deduct from the tax contri…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Fundamental missions

Article L141-2

…ditions laid down in the Statute of the European System of Central Banks, and in particular Article 30 of the Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Centra…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6a: Equity savings plan for financing small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies

Article L221-32-1

…e first paragraph is also the holder of a plan referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 221-30, the total cash payments made into these two plans since they were opened may not exceed the limi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secondment contract.

Article L1251-43

…possibility of changing the term of the assignment under the conditions set out in Articles L. 1251-30 and L. 1251-31. This provision also applies to the amendment providing for the renewal of the sec…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Recommendations sent to subscribers

Article R331-8

…mmunication audiovisuelle et numérique designated pursuant to IV of Article 4 of Law No. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Local tax on outdoor advertising

Article L2333-14

…The tax is collected from 1 September of the year of taxation on the basis of declarations made by 30 June of the same year at the latest.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.

Article 1578

…and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, done at Lugano on 30 October 2007, referred to in Article 509-3 of this Code, may be exercised by the director of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Registration of financial securities

Article R211-4

…eeping device pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on a pilot scheme for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology and…

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