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Showing 55215530 of 52948 articles for Art. CE 27-1-2017 n° 391817

French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Administrative tax commissions and tax abuse committee

Article 1653

The provisions concerning the operation of the communal commission and the intermunicipal commission as well as the operation, the procedures for appointing representatives of taxpayers and department…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Electronic money issuers

Article L572-14

Natural persons guilty of the offence referred to in article L. 572-13 shall also be liable to the following additional penalties:1° A ban on civic, civil and family rights, in accordance with the pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Appearance on preliminary recognition of guilt

Article 495-15-1

Implementation of the procedure provided for in this section does not prevent the Public Prosecutor from simultaneously issuing a summons to appear in court pursuant to Article 390-1. The referral to…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Product monitoring and governance requirements

Article L516-1

I.-Insurance undertakings, as well as intermediaries when designing insurance products, shall develop, apply and update in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/2358 of 21 Septembe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Implementation through payment of an annual contribution.

Article L5212-10-1

Expenditure incurred directly by the company relating to supply, subcontracting or service provision contracts that it enters into with ... may be deducted from the amount of the annual contribution:…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Payments into the time savings account

Article L3343-1

…rn for the payment of the sums listed in the first paragraph, the corresponding compensatory allowances do not benefit from the exemption from social security contributions provided for in articles L.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Judging of contraventions

Article R49-16-1

…9-10, the latter contains the relevant information specified by joint order of the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Road Safety, derived from data recorded by the sys…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-102-5

…shall engage the liability of its author and oblige him to compensate the damage that the performance of these obligations would have avoided. [Provisions declared to be unconstitutional by Constitut…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VIII: GUARANTEES GRANTED TO LOCAL ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES.

Article D1881-1

…Resulting from decree no. 2003-592 of 2 July 2003R. 1621-4 to R. 1621-6Decree no. 2021-1708 of 17 December 2021R. 1621-7Resulting from Decree no. 2021-596 of 14 May 2021R. 1621-8 to R. 1621-11Resultin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Common provisions (R)

Article D1612-1

…e municipality, the net tax rates adopted by the municipality the previous year, the average reference rates at national and departmental level, as well as the ceiling rates which are enforceable agai…

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