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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIIa: Taxes levied for the benefit of communities of communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation

Article 1609 quinquies C

…t from the compensation provided for in IV bis of article 6 of the 1987 finance law (no. 86-1317 of 30 December 1986), in place of their member municipalities, for losses of business property tax base…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
15° bis : Tax reduction for loans taken out to take over a business

Article 199 terdecies-0 B

I. - Taxpayers domiciled for tax purposes in France within the meaning of Article 4 B may benefit from a reduction in their income tax equal to 25% of the amount of interest on loans taken out to acqu…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Products whose sale in bulk is prohibited

Article D120-7

Any form of bulk sale is prohibited for the following products: 1° Heat-treated liquid dairy products, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter III of Section IX of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Special arrangements applicable to distance sales of goods imported from third countries or territories

Article 298 sexdecies H

I.-A. The following may avail themselves of this special scheme: 1° Any taxable person established on the territory of the European Union carrying out distance selling of goods imported from third ter…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV: Procedure applicable to organised crime and delinquency and to felonies

Article 706-73-1

…1 du même code et délit d'évasion commis en bande organisée prévu au second alinéa de l'article 434-30 dudit code ;2° Délits de dissimulation d'activités ou de salariés, de recours aux services d'une…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General procedural rules

Article R331-24

…fusal.IV.-When the matter is referred to the authority pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 331-30, the applicant must also prove that he has asked the rightholder who uses the technological prote…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: The mayor and deputy mayors

Article L2573-6

…002-276 of 27 February 2002 L. 2122-3 law no. 96-142 of 21 February 1996 L. 2122-4 Order no. 2009-1530 of 10 December 2009 First and second paragraphs of Article L. 2122-5 Order no. 2010-420 of 27 Apr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Creation

Article L5211-5-1 A

…stablishments of inter-municipal cooperation. If the administrative account has not been adopted by 30 June of the year following the sharing, the representative of the State in the department adopts…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-1

…and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, done at Lugano on 30 October 2007;2° Applications for the purposes of obtaining an extract from a decision submitted p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Wanted persons file

Article 230-19

…28 of the Penal Code; 5° The disqualification from French territory imposed pursuant to Article 131-30 of the Criminal Code; 6° A residence ban imposed pursuant to article 131-31 of the Criminal Code;…

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