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Showing 44814490 of 4656 articles for Art. 41 · CE 29 July 1983 n° 24158

French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 793

…ponding to the assets referred to in a below and sums deposited in a forestry investment and insurance account provided for in Chapter II of Title V of Book III of the Forestry Code, provided: a. that…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation and powers

Article L5219-1

…ine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne;3° The communes of the other départements of the Ile-de-France region belonging on 31 December 2014 to a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation com…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Closure of judicial liquidation proceedings

Article L643-11

…s not give creditors the right to exercise their individual actions against the debtor. There are exceptions to this rule:1° For actions relating to assets acquired under an estate opened during the j…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Other duties, taxes and fees levied on behalf of local authorities and other bodies

Article 1647

…r benefit or organisations financing and managing expenditure covered by the national health insurance expenditure target. The rate of this levy and the terms of reimbursement are set by order of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Public and civil proceedings

Article D1-1

The terms of application of II to IV of Article 28 of Organic Law No. 2011-333 of 29 March 2011 on the Human Rights Defender are specified by this article. I.-The proposal for a settlement made by the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial acts

Article A743-9

I.-The services listed under numbers 1 to 38 of the table mentioned in article A. 743-8 give rise to the collection of the following fees: SERVICE NUMBER (table 2 of article appendix 4-7) SUB-CATEGORY…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 quaterdecies

…equally between the year in which they are realised and the following two years.It refers to the excess of these capital gains over capital losses of the same nature that were actually incurred durin…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions relating to the use of a liability management structure

Article L311-42

…the resolution college decides to use a liability management structure mentioned in Article L. 311-41, it may: 1° Instruct the person subject to the resolution procedure to submit to it, within a per…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-5

…525-8 or a bureau de change, fails to withdraw from circulation, prior to issuing euro banknotes received from the public, banknotes which he has sufficient reason to believe to be counterfeit; An em…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Remuneration.

Article D6152-23-1

The allowances mentioned in 2° of article R. 6152-23 are :1° Allowances for taking part in on-call duty or working periods in excess of weekly service obligations:a) hardship allowances corresponding…

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