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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter VIII ter: Turnover tax on farmers

Article 302 bis MB

I. - A tax is payable by farmers in respect of their agricultural activities, excluding those placed under the flat-rate agricultural reimbursement scheme mentioned in articles 298 quater and 298 quin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions applicable to cross-border service providers

Article R123-30-2

Cross-border service providers send the single body mentioned in Article R. 123-1, depending on their situation:1° Registration declarations intended for the tax services and social security bodies;2°…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Decisions.

Article R464-5-3

…Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control or the General Rapporteur of the Competition Authority for a place in the order of arrival with a view to benefiting from the total or partial exemption from financ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Presentation of the request

Article R2333-120-31

…datory prior administrative appeal, the request must be accompanied by:1° A copy of the payment notice for the post-parking charge;2° A copy of the compulsory prior administrative appeal lodged with t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-1-3

…ent, a convicted person has not complied with the prohibition imposed on him, pursuant to his sentence, from entering into contact with certain persons or certain categories of persons, to associate w…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-3-1

…vided for in A of I of Article L. 465-1 shall apply to any person who carries out a transaction, places an order or behaves in such a way as to give, or be likely to give, misleading indications as to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article L533-29-3

…in a third country other than the one in which they have been granted authorisation shall publish once a year, in the notes to their annual accounts or, where applicable, to their consolidated annual…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Organisation of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article D411-1-3

…um, for re-use.The re-use of all or part of this public information is subject to the applicant's acceptance of a licence including an undertaking not to make any use of the personal data contrary to…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Investment income

Article A343-3-1

…f article R. 343-9, the current value thus calculated is multiplied by the ratio between the reference index on the date of sale or conversion and the same index on the date of acquisition. Where the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L6161-3-2

In the event of the definitive closure of an establishment or service managed by a private body, the sums allocated to the closed establishment or service by the State, local authorities and their pub…

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