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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-1

…5/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013.A parent undertaking of a finance company is a financial institution, within the meaning of Article L. 511-21, which is neither a f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Prudential provisions

Article L522-17

I. - Funds received either from payment service users or through another payment service provider for the execution of payment transactions shall be protected in accordance with one of the following t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Payments.

Article L3332-11

…yee or a person mentioned in article L. 3332-2 constitute the employer's contribution and may not exceed a ceiling set by regulation for payments into a company savings plan, without being able to exc…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Dotation globale de fonctionnement (R).

Article R2563-4-1

…ions from which have benefited, pursuant to Article 1382 of the General Tax Code, university residences, premises used for the barracks of armed forces personnel and the premises of public health esta…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Regional school equipment grants

Article R4332-10

…of the establishments is distributed as follows: 1° 30%, in proportion to the total developed surface area of school buildings; 2° 5%, in proportion to the total developed surface area of school buil…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Registration of sworn freight brokers on the list of the Court of Appeal

Article R131-1

…the public prosecutor at the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction the applicant has his residence or, in the case of a legal entity, his registered office, a branch or an establishment related to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article R5124-10

I.- Modifications to the authorisation to open a pharmaceutical establishment, as provided for in article L. 5124-3, which relate to one of the following, are subject to authorisation because of their…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XL : Tax credit for arts and crafts

Article 244 quater O

…of plans or models or prototypes or tests or manual development specific to the work;b) A work produced in one copy or in a small series that does not appear identically in the company's previous achi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article Annexe à l'article A121-1

…contract, the premium payable by the insured is determined by multiplying the amount of the reference premium, as defined in Article 2, by a coefficient known as the reduction/increase coefficient, s…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Criminal penalties

Article L132-15

Natural persons guilty of the offence punishable under Article L. 132-14 also incur as additional penalties the prohibition, in accordance with the procedures set out in the Article 131-27 of the Crim…

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