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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 244 quater M

…or exempt pursuant to Articles 44 sexies, 44 sexies A, 44 octies A , 44 terdecies to 44 septdecies may benefit from a tax credit equal to the product of the number of hours spent by the company direc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L613-34-4

…ation to foreign natural or legal persons, the collège de résolution and the collège de supervision may, in the performance of their task of preventing and resolving banking crises, exchange informati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Composition

Article R621-4

…f the other members of the Specialised Commission to chair the meeting. Each Specialised Commission may deliberate only if at least half of its members are present. A member who does not take part in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Classes of affected parts.

Article L626-32

I.-Where the plan is not approved in accordance with the provisions of article L. 626-30-2, it may be adopted by the court at the request of the debtor or the court-appointed administrator with the ag…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4°: Provisions applicable to certain contracts concluded for properties located in priority development areas

Article 239 sexies D

…least fifteen years. These provisions apply to transactions entered into between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2015 for the leasing, under a leasing contract, of buildings located in regional aid are…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions relating to beneficiaries of people's savings passbook accounts.

Article R221-33

…gibility of the surviving taxpayer is assessed with regard to the income of the tax household as at 31 December of the year of death; 3° To open a popular savings passbook account, the income of the t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Local monitoring system for medically assisted procreation

Article R2142-47

…romise the smooth operation of the system; 9° Send the Agence de la biomédecine an annual report by 31 March each year, summarising all the incidents and adverse effects noted during the previous cale…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions relating to group insurance.

Article L141-6

…within the meaning of article L. 141-1, other than those governed by Title I of law no. 89-1009 of 31 December 1989 strengthening the guarantees offered to persons insured against certain risks, and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Capital gains realised by companies

Article 248 E

…art of the transactions mentioned in Article 19 of the Amending Finance Law for 1981, n° 81-1179 du 31 décembre 1981, and to Article 14 of the amended finance law for 1982, n° 82-1152 of 30 December 1…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Support for projects

Article 633-5

…cle 18(2), Article 19(3), Article 25(5)(c) and (6), Article 28(3), 4 of Article 29 and 4 of Article 31 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 referred to in Article 631-2, as well a…

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