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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Technical provisions for reinsurance operations

Article R343-8

The technical provisions corresponding to accepted reinsurance transactions are as follows: 1° Mathematical provision: difference between the present value of the commitments assumed by the reinsurer…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5141-13-1

…approved for the manufacture of medicated feed within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2019/4 of 11 December 2018, as well as for the associations representing them, to receive benefits in kind or in ca…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Administration and control

Article D1524-7

…alling its history, its corporate purpose, its areas of activity, the address of its registered office, the number of its employees, the breakdown of its capital, the organisation of its governance, t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R1413-1

…atening them, their causes and trends. To this end, it creates information systems enabling it to access scientific, health, demographic, behavioural, social, climatic, environmental, statistical, ind…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Directorate-General for Healthcare Provision.

Article D1421-2

…priorities of health policy.To this end, in liaison with the other directorates and departments concerned in the Ministry and other ministerial departments, the health insurance funds and the public…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article D7231-1

I.-The personal service activities subject to authorisation, pursuant to article L. 7232-1, are as follows:1° Childcare in the home, under an age set by joint order of the Minister for the Economy and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
14° : Tax reduction granted for cash subscriptions to the capital of companies and for subscriptions to shares in innovation investment funds (fonds communs de placement dans l'innovation)

Article 199 terdecies-0 AB

I.-1. Taxpayers resident in France for tax purposes may benefit from a reduction in their income tax equal to 18% of payments made in respect of cash subscriptions to the initial capital or capital in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
12° : Tax reduction for certain overseas investments

Article 199 undecies D

…these tax reductions, which may be offset for a taxpayer in respect of the same tax year, may not exceed an amount of €40,000 comprising in the following order of offset:a) The sum of the income tax r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV: Procedure applicable to organised crime and delinquency and to felonies

Article 706-73-1

This Title, with the exception of Article 706-88, shall also apply to the investigation, prosecution, trial and judgment of the following offences:1° Offence of swindling in an organised gang, provide…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Lists of candidates and individual applications

Article D1441-22-4

…opening of candidacies; 8° The activity or activities carried out for two years in the ten years preceding the candidacy, or the performance of the duties of labour court councillor in the ten years p…

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