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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Remote electronic voting

Article R2122-61

Any elector for whom all the information mentioned in article R. 2122-12 is known may vote by remote electronic means.

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
34°: Tax credit for forestry investments

Article 200 quindecies

…o State aid for forestry investment issued in accordance with the regulatory part of the same code; 6° To the contribution paid to an insurer by the taxpayer, by a forestry group or by a forestry savi…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deeds relating to ownership and transfer of ownership

Article A444-90

The transfer of ownership or use between local authorities and/or public establishments (number 53 in table 5) gives rise to the collection of a proportional fee, according to the following scale: Bas…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deeds relating to ownership and transfer of ownership

Article A444-102-1

Sales by voluntary auction of all goods and rights other than movable and movable objects, retail trees and boats give rise to the collection of a proportional emolument, according to the following sc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Deeds relating principally to loans, debts and securities involved in economic activity

Article A444-126

The deed of consent to the prior claim (number 109 in table 5) gives rise to the collection of an emolument proportional to the sum actually benefiting from the prior claim, according to the following…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Issuance of Bulletin No. 2 of the Criminal Record

Article R79

…nd building loans; 5° To those responsible for admitting candidates to professional representation; 6° To those dealing with applications for authorisation to bring a foreign female employee into Fran…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to minimum capital requirements and eligible commitments

Article R613-46

…essment, measurement and control procedures of the resolution entity are applied to the subsidiary; 6° The resolution entity holds more than 50% of the voting rights attached to shares in the capital…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Redundancies for economic reasons.

Article L321-4-2

I.-In companies not subject to the provisions of article L. 321-4-3, the employer is obliged to offer each employee whose redundancy is being considered for economic reasons the benefit of a personali…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Offences relating to currency

Article L734-6

I.- Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptation provisions provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Withdrawal of reductions in sentences provided for in article 721

Article D116-6

When the sentence enforcement judge is likely to revoke all or part of a previously granted reduction in sentence, on his own initiative or at the request of the head of the establishment or the publi…

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