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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Professional private equity funds

Article L214-159

…ith the exception of the third paragraph of Article L. 214-24-29 and 1° and 9° of Article L. 214-24-31, are applicable to private equity companies.The provisions applicable to the regulations and unit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-39

When information held by the services and units mentioned in Article 695-9-31 have been transmitted to them by a Member State on the basis of the provisions of Framework Decision 2006/960/JHA, they ma…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 12: Maintenance and repair of household electrical or electronic equipment

Article D224-34

…is not obliged to offer parts from the circular economy in the case provided for by article R. 224-31. Where the trader has a website, the information referred to in the second paragraph appears clea…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 12: Maintenance and repair of household electrical or electronic equipment

Article D224-35

…that the supply of these parts is made subject to the exception provided for in the article R. 224-31 du code de la consommation.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Exemption

Article 1594 H

…quired by first-time buyers who have taken out state-subsidised loans (PAP) between 1 July 1981 and 31 December 1984 and who are unable to meet their repayments, when the first-time buyers who sell th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Management

Article L6333-6

…the last paragraph of article L. 6333-1.The sums available to Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations at 31 December of each year constitute its resources for the following year and are held in a precautio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Sociétés de participations financières de profession libérale de commissaires aux comptes

Article A822-34

…information electronically. The list is sent to the Haut Conseil du Commissariat aux Comptes before 31 December each year.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Associate assistants.

Article R6152-538

…te, but are not authorised to act as replacements.The provisions of the first paragraph apply until 31 December 2022.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°d: Buildings included in or erected near sites exposed to particular risks

Article 1383 G

…eferred to in the first paragraph.To benefit from this exemption, the owner must submit, before 1st January of the first year from which the exemption is applicable, a declaration to the tax departmen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Urban policy allocation

Article L2334-41

…e metropolitan and overseas departments. This criterion is assessed on the basis of data known at 1 January of the year preceding the allocation. Eligible for this quota are municipalities in overseas…

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