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Showing 63516360 of 6535 articles for Art. CA Rennes – 17 Dec. 2024 – no. 23/05277

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Cooperation and exchanges of information with the authorities of States that are not members of the European Union or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L632-7

…ct 68-678 of 26 July 1968 on the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or legal persons, the Autorité de contrôle prudenti…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Annex I

Article Rubrique 0

…rt of the control of the status of the authorising officer that accounting officers are required to carry out in respect of payment orders, it is their responsibility to ensure that the signatory of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Annex I

Article Rubrique 5

Heading 5-Operations involving real estate and business assets 51. Amicable acquisition of buildings for valuable consideration . 511. Simple sale 5111. 5111 Immobilisation indemnity 1. Deliberation a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Preliminary provisions

Article R93

…o those of Article R. 92 and recoverable by the State are those resulting from:1° Expert appraisals carried out pursuant to the provisions of Title I of Book II of Part Three (legislative part) of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking, payment services and electronic money

Article L754-2

…e shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the provisions of II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Calculation of total distributed income

Article 115

1. In the event of a merger or demerger of companies, the allocation of securities, sums or values to the members of the transferring company in consideration for the cancellation of the securities of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXVIII: Tax credit for competitiveness and employment

Article 244 quater C

…eas of investment, research, innovation, training, recruitment, prospecting for new markets, ecological and energy transition and rebuilding their working capital. In its annual accounts, the company…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R355-7

…f its appropriateness to the risk profile of the undertaking; c) A description, separately for each category of risk, of risk exposure, risk concentrations, risk mitigation and risk sensitivity; d) A…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Tax base

Article 1388 quinquies

…enefit from the allowance provided for in article 1466 F is subject to an abatement when they are located in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Mayotte or La Réunion.The deliberation concerns the entire…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 6: Mergers, demergers and partial contributions of assets between associations

Article 30-19

…ffice or on the association's website, at least thirty days before the date of the members' meeting called to decide on the project and no later than the day of publication of the notice referred to i…

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