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Showing 7180 of 11432 articles for Art. CE 17-10-1990 n° 56991

French General Tax CodeIn force
17°: Occupation of public property

Article 1048 ter

…122-17 to L. 2122-19 of the General Code on the Ownership of Public Persons or Article 13 of Ordinance No. 2004-559 of 17 June 2004 on partnership contracts, or by local authorities, their groupings o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inspections by the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire and approved bodies

Article R1333-172

…tivity, as referred to in Article L. 1333-8, is required to have the rules that have been put in place in terms of :1° Collective protection, taking into account the applicable requirements under its…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inspections by the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire and approved bodies

Article R1333-175

I.-The competent authority may, in special circumstances and by a reasoned decision, ask the person responsible for a nuclear activity to have the verifications provided for in this article carried ou…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inspections by the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire and approved bodies

Article R1333-174

…e application for approval and renewal of approval mentioned in II of Article R. 1333-172;2° The procedures for issuing, renewing, checking and suspending approvals.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inspections by the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire and approved bodies

Article R1333-173

…qualifications of the people who carried them out.II - The reports are sent, within a period not exceeding two months, to the person responsible for the nuclear activity, who keeps them for ten years…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Tax fines

Article 1766

…tion to declare relates to a State or territory that has not entered into an administrative assistance agreement with France to combat tax fraud and tax evasion allowing access to banking information.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-section 2: Employee representatives on company boards of directors or supervisory boards.

Article L2411-17

…d of public-sector companies, limited companies and partnerships limited by shares may only take place with the authorisation of the labour inspector. This authorisation is also required for : 1° Form…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Taxpayer returns

Article 170

…a detailed declaration of their income and profits, their family expenses and the other elements necessary for calculating income tax, including in particular those used to determine the ceiling on t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Tax penalties

Article 1734

…ed deadlines.A fine equal to €1,500 is applicable, for each document, but the total fines may not exceed €50,000 [Provisions declared unconstitutional by Constitutional Council decision no. 2013-679 D…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Failure to declare or late declaration

Article 1728

…taxpayer or resulting from the declaration or deed filed late, of an increase of:a. 10% in the absence of a formal notice or in the event that the declaration or deed is filed within thirty days of re…

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