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Showing 37413750 of 3964 articles for Art. CA Paris – 24 Nov. 2016

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supervisory Board, Executive Board and Management Board

Article L6143-5

The Supervisory Board is composed as follows1° No more than five representatives of the local authorities, their groupings or the metropolitan area, appointed from among their members by the decision-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L561-36

…icle L. 561-2 with the obligations laid down in Chapters I and II of this Title, with directly applicable European provisions relating to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1. Transferable securities, company rights and similar securities

Article 150-0 D

…taxes paid by the transferor, and their effective acquisition price by the latter less, where applicable, the tax reductions effectively obtained under the conditions provided for in article 199 terd…

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

Article 41-1

…ppears to the public prosecutor that such a measure is likely to ensure compensation for the damage caused to the victim, put an end to the disorder resulting from the offence or contribute to the reh…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Combating mirror sites

Article L331-29

Any software publisher, any technical system manufacturer and any service operator may, in the event of refusal of access to information essential to interoperability, ask the Audiovisual and Digital…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Shareholdings in companies

Article L2253-1

All holdings by a municipality in the capital of a commercial company or any other profit-making body whose purpose is not to operate municipal services or activities of general interest under the con…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Assessment of built properties

Article 1498

…b-groups, defined according to their nature and purpose. Within a sub-group, they are classified by category, according to their use, their physical characteristics, their location and their consisten…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Indirect taxes

Article 1810

…for the offences mentioned in 10° of this article, and the means of transport are seized and confiscated, as well as the containers, packaging, utensils, mechanics, machines or apparatus:1° manufactu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Discriminatory refusal of care

Article R1521-1

I.-Articles R. 1110-8 to R. 1110-14 are applicable to the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording resulting from Decree no. 2020-1215 of 2 October 2020 relating to the procedure applicable to refusa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-5-3

…n of the Autorité des marchés financiers, where provided for by law or regulation, in the following cases: 1° In the event of publication by the AMF of a declaration made by a person acting alone or i…

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