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Showing 22712280 of 2350 articles for Art. CA Rouen 28 February 1991

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6a: Equity savings plan for financing small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies

Article L221-32-2

…s paid into the equity savings plan for the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies are used for one or more of the following purposes:a) Shares, excluding those mentione…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Tax on the costs of chambers of agriculture

Article 1604

I. - A tax calculated on the same basis as property tax on undeveloped properties is levied for the benefit of establishments in the network defined in article L. 510-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-14

…date of registration in the file. This retention period is extended to forty years when the biological traces from unknown persons have been collected as part of an investigation or information relat…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article L744-8

…in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicableIn the wording resulting fromL.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions for admission to the profession

Article L773-29

…ons of II, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Articles applicableIn…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions for admission to the profession

Article L774-29

…isted in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Articles applicableIn the wording resulting fromL.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article R214-32-29

…e counterparty is a credit institution mentioned in the second paragraph of II of article R. 214-32-28 and 5% in other cases. II. - As an exception to the 5% limit set in 1° of I, a general purpose in…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 6: Foreign nationals exempt from applying for a residence permit

Article R431-16

…ng in France for a maximum of three months under cover of their travel document bearing, where applicable, a visa ; 3° Foreign nationals staying in France on a visa for a period of more than three mon…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXXV: Tax credit for interest-free repayable advances to finance the acquisition or construction of a principal residence

Article 244 quater J

…he tax year or the financial year.The amount of the interest-free repayable advance may, where applicable, finance all of the work planned by the beneficiary of this advance when acquiring this reside…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1a: Personnel management

Article D712-11-1

…Article 40 of Law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019, amended by the article 16 of law no. 2022-172 of 14 February 2022; - the term "network" refers to the regional chambers of commerce and industry and CCI…

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