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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Service regulations and pricing

Article L2224-12-4

…ng arrangements with a view to encouraging users to make better use of the resource.III. - From 1st January 2010 and subject to the second paragraph of I, the amount of the water bill calculated accor…

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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 BA

1. From 1st January 2011, the business value added levy collected by the public inter-municipal cooperation establishments mentioned in II of article 1379-0 bis is equal to the share mentioned in 5° o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Transfer of powers.

Article L5215-22

…The statutes of the unions concerned existing on the date of promulgation of Law no. 2014-58 of 27 January 2014 on the modernisation of territorial public action and the affirmation of metropolises m…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Economic redundancies in the context of safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation.

Article L1233-58

…enes and consults the social and economic committee under the conditions set out in article L. 2323-31 and in articles : 1° L. 1233-8, for collective redundancies of less than ten employees ; 2° L. 12…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XVII ter: Taxation of real estate investment funds

Article 239 nonies

…portion to its share of distributed income.3. The provisions set out in h of 1° of the I of article 31, article 31 bis, the first paragraph of 3° of the I of article 156 relating to buildings listed o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 214

…number of shares to enable the cooperating members to hold at least 50% of the company's capital by 31 December of the seventh year following the year of conversion into a société coopérative de produ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Taxation of income and capital gains in the event of transfer of domicile outside France

Article 167 bis

…II of article 92 B, of article 92 B decies and I ter and II of article 160, as they read prior to 1 January 2000, article 150-0 C, in the version in force before 1 January 2006 and, articles 150-0 B b…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Examination of a person's genetic characteristics and identification of a person by genetic fingerprints

Article 16-11

…al disaster, or a person who is the subject of a search under the article 26 of law no. 95-73 of 21 January 1995 on security policy and programming and whose death is presumed, samples intended to col…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Negotiable debt securities

Article L213-3

…ds of these issues do not constitute funds repayable by the public within the meaning of Article L. 312-2 ; 2. Companies other than those mentioned in 1 and 1 bis, provided that they meet the conditio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
0I bis : Transfers of assets outside France by companies

Article 238 bis-0 I

…cle shall apply to the determination of taxable income for financial years commencing on or after 1 January 1992.>

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