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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Provisions relating to the implementation of an internal bail-out measure

Article L613-55-13

…se stipulating that the creditor acknowledges that the commitment may be converted or its value reduced and agrees to be bound by any measure to reduce the principal or the outstanding amount, to conv…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Investment ratios

Article R214-21

…curities or money market instruments issued by the same entity; 3° 20% of its assets in deposits placed with the same entity. The UCITS' counterparty risk on a single counterparty resulting from over-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Business-to-business loans

Article R511-2-1-1

…rench Public Procurement Code; 2° Over the last two financial years, one of the two companies has received or is receiving a public subsidy as part of the same project involving the two companies and,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Deliberative body of public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax system

Article L5211-6-1

I. - The number and distribution of community councillor seats are established:1° Either in accordance with the procedures set out in II to VI of this article;2° Or, in communities of communes and agg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article A43-9

I.-In accordance with the provisions of Article R. 213-2, requisitions sent under the conditions provided for in this code for the interception of telephone communications shall give rise to reimburse…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 C

…ssets leased or made available in any other form is spread over the normal period of use in accordance with the procedures laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. By way of derogation from the prov…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions and scope of application

Article R151-3

…s referred to in I of article L. 151-3 are as follows: I.-Activities likely to affect national defence interests, participating in the exercise of public authority or likely to affect public order and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 158

…out in articles 12 and 13 and under the conditions set out in 2 to 6 ter below, without it being necessary to distinguish according to whether these incomes have their source in France or outside Fra…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Common provisions

Article L312-16

Orders issued by the Minister for the Economy specify:1° The conditions, deadlines and procedures for implementing the guarantee provided for in article L. 312-4-1 and I of article L. 312-5 ; 2° The c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Dotation de soutien à l'investissement des départements (Departmental investment support grant)

Article L3334-10

…t defined in article L. 2334-2; -the number of children is that established at the time of the last census; the urban units are those appearing on the list published by the Institut national de la sta…

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