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Showing 25212530 of 3518 articles for Art. CE 30 Dec 2010 n° 338197

French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Product definition

Article 434

…on given, for wine, by Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999, for other drinks by the decrees in the Council of State taken for the application of Articles L. 212-1 à L. 215-5, L. 215-7…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Taxation

Article 669

…wnership and usufruct is determined by a proportion of the value of the entire property, in accordance with the following scale:AGE of the usufructuaryVALUE the usufructVALUE of the bare ownership. of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Property tax on built-up properties

Article 1382 E

…from property tax on built properties, for properties located within the boundaries of the ports concerned and which are not exempt pursuant to 2° of article 1382.II. - The communes and the public est…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: NAME AND TERRITORY OF THE DEPARTMENT

Article L3114-1

I. - Several départements in the same region forming a single territory may, by joint decision of their departmental councils, adopted by a majority of three-fifths of the votes cast, request to be gr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-33

…de of conduct referred to in the same article.Notwithstanding Articles 42 et seq. of Act 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication, when the Autorité de Régulation de la Communication A…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Appeals to the Paris Court of Appeal against decisions of the Competition Authority.

Article R464-20

…ject of the action with a statement of the grounds. Under the same penalty, a copy of the contested decision shall be attached to the summons. On pain of the appeal lapsing automatically, the summons…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Aid for property investment and leasing granted to businesses

Article R1511-13

…ch Guiana and Mayotte;b) €45 million in Saint-Martin;c) €37.5 million in Guadeloupe and Réunion;d) €30 million in Martinique;e) €11.25 million in the communes listed in Annex 1 to the decree mentioned…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Accounts, deposit of funds, controls and miscellaneous provisions

Article R814-29

Administrators and mandataires judiciaires open, for each mandate received, within the framework of special accounts, an account that records all movements relating to that mandate as well as transact…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-45

…d investment.This initial non-allocated portion may not be less than 70% of the fund's annual resources, with the exception of unused appropriations carried over from previous years.It is distributed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Communal services.

Article D2573-20

…ynesia". V. - For the application of article R. 2221-86, the words: "corporate income tax" are replaced by the words: "corporate income tax". VI. - Articles R. 2221-24, R. 2221-30 and R. 2221-96 are a…

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