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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Public land registry service

Article 881 C

…ion of the summons and the denunciations provided for in Article R. 322-9 of the Code of Civil Enforcement Procedures; 4° For the act noting the refusal to publish a summons valid as an attachment in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Expenditure

Article L72-103-2

…r elected representatives pursuant to articles L. 7227-29 to L. 7227-32 ;4° The contribution to the Centre national de la fonction publique territoriale;5° The remuneration of local authority staff;6°…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Permanent access to the national health data system for certain public services

Article R1461-12

The State departments, public establishments and bodies entrusted with a public service mission authorised to process personal data from the national health data system pursuant to III of article L. 1…

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

Article 182 A

I. With the exception of salaries falling within the scope of article 182 A bis, French-source salaries, wages, pensions and life annuities paid to persons who are not domiciled in France for tax purp…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L2151-7

I.- Human induced pluripotent stem cells are cells which do not originate from an embryo and which are capable of multiplying indefinitely and of differentiating into all the cell types which make up…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Supervision on a consolidated basis by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and college of supervisors

Article L613-20-6-1

…ble for supervision on a consolidated basis, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution receives an application for approval or exemption from approval referred to in Articles L. 517-13 and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Payments.

Article L3332-10

…on referred to in Article L. 3332-2 to the company savings plans in which he participates may not exceed one quarter of his annual remuneration or his professional income taxed for income tax purposes…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes III

Article Annexe III-25

…d A331-23) DefinitionEvents with motorised land vehicles that are not regulated in the other appendices, such as tractor pulling.Rules relating to the circuit or courseThe course must be closed to pub…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for admission to the profession.

Article L811-5

…e same nature that have given rise to a disciplinary or administrative sanction of removal from office, striking off the register, revocation, withdrawal of authorisation or withdrawal of authorisatio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Transport

Article L4424-20

…ic establishment of the Corsican regional authority of an industrial and commercial nature, the Office des transports de la Corse, over which the authority exercises its supervisory power, has the mis…

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