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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article D743-11

…and column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 214-32-10n° 2013-687 of 25 July 2013D. 214-32-12no. 2020-286 of 21 March 2020D. 214-32-13 and D. 214-32-14n°…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L773-21

…ht-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 521-1 Ordinance no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 521-2 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 521-3 Order no. 201…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L774-21

…ht-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 521-1 Ordinance no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 521-2 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 521-3 Order no. 201…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Lawyers' fees

Article A444-193

…icitation by judicial auction give rise to the collection of the following fees: NUMBER OF THE SERVICE (table 6 of article Appendix 4-7) DESTINCTION OF SERVICE EMOLUMENT 5 Requests for reparations and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-2

…als for the settlement of the budget. The State representative settles the budget and makes it enforceable. If the representative of the State in the department departs from the proposals of the regio…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions for residential or business premises

Article L412-6

…the expiry of the periods granted under article L. 412-3, any eviction order that has not been enforced by 1st November of each year shall be suspended until 31st March of the following year, unless t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2nd Subsection: Overall income

Article 157 bis

Taxpayers aged over sixty-five on 31 December of the tax year, or meeting one of the disability conditions mentioned in article 195, may deduct an amount of:- €2,620 from their net overall income if t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Public prosecution and investigating authorities

Article D15-2

The Public Prosecutor sends the Minister of Justice the annual criminal policy report on the application of the law and the general instructions, as well as the annual report on the activity and manag…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-40-6

…nal councils and the president of the executive council of Corsica shall transmit each year, before 31 March, to the education authorities, for each local public education establishment under their ju…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Examination and conditions of authorisation.

Article R5121-49

…on of Article 20(4) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004, urgent action is essential to protect human health or the environment, pending a fina…

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