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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 321-28

…production, this work must : 1° Be financed by a French participation at least equal to 30% of its final cost; 2° Be the subject, for at least 50% of the French participation, o…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title V: PENALTIES

Article L455-2

…17, L. 254-9, L. 255-18, L. 671-9 and L. 671-10 du code rural et de la pêche maritime;5° La loi du 30 décembre 1931 tendant à réprimer la fraude dans le commerce de l'essence de térébenthine et des p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 200 sexdecies

…ion. This limit is increased by 25% for each additional half share.II. - The tax credit is equal to 30% of the expenses mentioned in I, actually borne by the taxpayer.It is granted once for the same t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions on the valuation of prudential technical provisions

Article R351-5

…° For exposures to central governments and central banks of Member States, greater than or equal to 30% of the long-term average of the margin in relation to the rate of the fundamental risk-free inte…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Liquidation

Article 790 A bis

…vailable for the administration.II.-The provisions of I apply to sums paid between 15 July 2020 and 30 June 2021.>

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Property wealth tax

Article 973

…e rules in force for death duties. By way of derogation from the second paragraph of article 761, a 30% allowance is applied to the real market value of the property if it is occupied as the owner's m…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Amendments to the Articles of Association

Article L5211-17

…ties under the conditions provided for in 3 of 3° of B of III of article 85 of law no. 2005-1719 of 30 December 2005 of finance for 2006 (1). The transfer of powers is pronounced by order of the State…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 8: Departmental Commission for Intercommunal Cooperation

Article L5211-43

…s grouped within electoral colleges determined according to the demographic size of the communes;2° 30% by representatives of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax sy…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article R613-28

…m, instrument or right is deemed to be unstructured within the meaning of 4° of I of Article L. 613-30-3 a security, claim, instrument or right that has the following characteristics: 1° The principal…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5: Special regime applicable to forestry operations

Article 76

…he following periods: Poplar plantations: 10 years; Softwoods: 20 years; Hardwoods and other woods: 30 years. b bis From 1 January of the year following the promulgation of the loi n° 2001-602 du 9 ju…

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