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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Automatic processing of personal data known as "Application for managing the files of foreign nationals in France".

Article R142-15

…lation of foreign nationals, as well as that relating to access to French nationality and visa applications, and for their implementation, and reporting to the central departments of the Ministries of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Provisions relating to sports betting bans

Article R131-43

I. - The National Gaming Authority shall carry out the checks requested by a delegated sports federation by comparing the file transmitted by the latter with the automated processing of personal data…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-15

…l public security directorate on which his or her home depends, or to the service designated by the Paris police prefecture in other cases, within the first fifteen days of the month of the anniversar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article D47-3

By application of the provisions of article 704, paragraph 1, of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the judicial courts designated in the table below have jurisdiction to hear, in the districts defined i…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1636 B septies

I. - The rates of property tax and council tax on second homes and other furnished premises not allocated to the principal dwelling voted by a municipality may not exceed two and a half times the aver…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L111-2

The provisions of Titles I, II, III and IV of this book may not be modified by agreement, except those which give the parties a simple option and which are contained in the last paragraph of I and II…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of taxable income

Article 80 octies

In accordance with articles L. 442-1and L. 443-10 of the Code de l'action sociale et des familles, the daily remuneration for services rendered and the allowances mentioned in 1° and 2° of Article L.…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to groups with a parent undertaking having its registered office outside the European Union

Article R356-6

…taken in respect of the third country concerned, unless it is necessary to take into account significant changes to the group supervision of the third country and to that established by the provisions…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-23

…solvency regime at least equivalent to that laid down in Chapters I, II and III of this Title, the calculation of group solvency shall take account, as far as that undertaking is concerned, of the So…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article D742-9

For the application in New Caledonia of the last paragraph of II of Article L. 214-24, the portfolio management company must :a) Identify all the AIFs that have delegated management of the capital rai…

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