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Showing 491500 of 21284 articles for Art. BOFiP-BIC-CHAMP-40-10-§§ 115 et 165

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 6a : Inventory of fixtures, rental charges and taxes

Article L145-40-2

…of charges, taxes and fees relating to this lease, including an indication of how they are divided between the lessor and the lessee. This inventory gives rise to an annual summary statement sent by t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 6a : Inventory of fixtures, rental charges and taxes

Article L145-40-1

…r of the right to lease, transfer or gratuitous transfer of the business and when the premises are returned, an inventory of fixtures is drawn up jointly and amicably by the lessor and the lessee or b…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40-4-1

…is his professional address.He is advised that he must notify the public prosecutor, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, of any change in the declared address. He/she is also advised…

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

Article 695-9-40

Information may only be transmitted to the competent services of the Member State that requested it with the prior authorisation of a magistrate whenever such authorisation is required in France to ac…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 6: National registers

Article R623-40-1

The mention of essentially derived varieties within the meaning of IV of article L. 623-4, whether or not covered by a plant variety certificate, identified by their variety denomination, may be regis…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Democratisation and transparency.

Article L5211-40-2

…tice sent to the community councillors or to the members of the trade union committee before each meeting of the deliberative body of the public inter-communal cooperation establishment, accompanied,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Democratisation and transparency.

Article L5211-40-1

If unable to attend, a member of a committee set up in application of article L. 2121-22 may be replaced for a meeting by a municipal councillor from the same municipality appointed by the mayor. The…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and operation

Article R321-40-1

…Conseil des Maisons de Vente, with the documents required to be kept by Article L. 561-12 of the Monetary and Financial Code.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Proposed measures

Article R15-33-40

…imits within which they must be carried out where one of the proposed measures consists of the completion of a probationary period, it is specified whether the probationary period gives rise to the in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Courts dealing with secure detention

Article R53-8-40

…e chamber and the two councillors of the court of appeal who make up the regional court for secure detention belong to the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction this court sits. They are appointed…

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