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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 792-0 bis

…es of this Code, "trust" means all legal relationships created in the law of a State other than France by a person who has the status of settlor, by inter vivos deed or mortis causa, with a view to pl…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: Solvency requirements

Article A385-2

The projection according to the scenario mentioned in a of I of article R. 385-4 is carried out over the ten financial years following the end of the previous financial year and according to the follo…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2i: Companies located in rural regeneration areas

Article 44 quindecies

…s mentioned in article 1465 A, businesses that are created or taken over between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2023, subject by right or by option to an actual taxation system for their results and t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXX : Tax credit for certain investments made and operated in Corsica

Article 244 quater E

…ct to an actual tax regime may benefit from a tax credit in respect of investments, other than replacement investments, financed without public aid for at least 25% of their amount, made until 31 Dece…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Parking charges

Article L2333-87

I.-Without prejudice to the application of articles L. 2213-2 and L. 2512-14, the municipal council or the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation or of the joint…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prudential control and resolution authority

Article L783-2

…hand column of the same table: Articles applicableIn the wording resulting fromL. 612-1, with the exception of III, the second to eighth paragraphs of IV, V to VIIIOrder no. 2023-836 of 30 August 2023…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prudential control and resolution authority

Article L784-2

…hand column of the same table: Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting fromL. 612-1, with the exception of III, the second to eighth paragraphs of IV, V to VIIIOrder no. 2023-836 of 30 August 2023…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Single chapter

Article R641-1

…sions of the regulatory part of this Code are applicable to Wallis and Futuna:1° Book I, with the exception of the second paragraph of Article R. 112-4, Articles R. 162-2, R. 162-3 and R. 162-7 ;Artic…

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

Article R411-1

…all documents relating thereto, and the examination of oppositions;1° bis. The granting, on the advice of the Minister for Defence, of authorisations for the disclosure and free working of patents for…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Economic regime

Article 568

…nopoly is entrusted to the administration, which exercises it, under conditions and according to procedures laid down by decree, through the intermediary of tobacconists designated as its agents and l…

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