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Showing 6170 of 41165 articles for Art. CE 20-3-2013 n°s 347881 et 347882

French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-20

To be eligible for aid for co-writing international co-production projects, authors must be:1° French nationals or equivalent;2° Nationals of a Member State of the Organisation Internationale de la Fr…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Production aid

Article 322-20

To be eligible for video game production aid, video game creation companies must meet the conditions set out in article…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 321-20

…pre-production of a project is carried out solely by one or more legal entities established in France, at least 50% of the pre-production expenditure mentioned in article…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Provisions common to turnover tax and industrial and commercial profits

Article 302 septies A ter B

…occult activity within the meaning of the second paragraph of article L. 169 of the Book of Tax Procedures.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Provisions common to turnover tax and industrial and commercial profits

Article 302 septies A ter A

…efined in article 302 septies A bis may keep super-simplified accounts. These accounts only record details of receipts and payments on a daily basis. Receivables and payables are recorded at the end o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART ONE

Article Annexe 11-2 (suite 3)

…ent of the attributable deficit must be based firstly on the functional manifestations, the importance of which can be graded by referring to the NYHA (New York Heart Association) classification.This…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VIII: Bodies responsible for organising international sporting competitions

Article 1655 septies

I. - Bodies responsible for organising an international sporting competition in France and, where applicable, subsidiaries in which they directly or indirectly hold more than half of the capital are n…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Tax base

Article 1388 sexies

…ayotte, the tax base for property tax on built-up properties sold from 18 September 2013 until 31 December 2016 by a public entity to unlawful occupants of buildings used as their main dwelling locate…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 20-3

…in the previous article, no one may repudiate French nationality unless he proves that he has by descent the nationality of a foreign country.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
8°: Financial products benefiting international organisations, foreign sovereign States, their central banks or financial institutions

Article 131 sexies

…mentioned in article 118 which benefit international organisations, foreign sovereign States or the central banks of these States, are exempt from the withholding taxes provided for in 1 and 2 of l'ar…

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