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Showing 58515860 of 6535 articles for Art. CA Rennes – 17 Dec. 2024 – no. 23/05277

French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation and operation

Article D112-14

…s and objects destined to take their place in the national collections; 4° The budget and its modifications; 5° The financial account and the allocation of the results for the financial year; 6° The a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 10: Applicable charges

Article L133-26

…provider may not charge the payment service user for fulfilling its information obligations or for carrying out corrective and preventive measures pursuant to this chapter, except in the cases provid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4b: Compensation for victims of sodium valproate or its derivatives

Article L1142-24-16

…aragraphs of article L. 1142-15, the second to fourth and penultimate paragraphs of article L. 1142-17, article L. 1142-19 and article L. 1142-20 apply to this offer.Where the victim has not informed…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors.

Article R411-15

…report; 4° The financial account, and the report noting the existence of any surpluses; 5° The allocation of the surplus of the net accounting result after deduction, where applicable, of the dividen…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Responsibilities

Article R112-4

…elines ;2° The initial budget and amending budgets, as well as the financial statements and the allocation of the results for the financial year;3° The general conditions for the allocation of financi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Income tax deducted at source

Article 187

…s is set at:1° For beneficiaries who are legal persons or organisations, regardless of their form:- 17% for interest on negotiable bonds; however, this rate is set at 15% for income referred to in 1°…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-18-2

…their execution arrangements in the light of the information available pursuant to Articles L. 420-17, L. 533-18-1, L. 533-19 and L. 533-33.Each investment service provider other than an asset manage…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Health record and compulsory examinations.

Article L2132-2-1

…ology certifies on the health record mentioned in article L. 2132-1 that the examinations have been carried out. In the year following their eighteenth, twenty-first and twenty-fourth birthdays, insur…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Persons liable.

Article D211-1

Pursuant to article L. 211-1-1, cancellation of the insurance contract is conditional upon the insured providing his insurer, no later than fifteen days after the insurer has been notified by the insu…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents

Article R614-5

The conversion of the European patent application into a French patent application takes place as soon as the Institut national de la propriété industrielle receives the request. It is assigned a nati…

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