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Showing 94719480 of 50010 articles for Art. CJEC – Metro I – 25 Oct. 1977 – case 26/76

French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-19

I.-The group solvency of the undertaking referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 356-8 is calculated on the basis of consolidated data. The group solvency is equal to the difference between t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to UCITS, debt securitisation funds and property investment funds

Article L231-6

Any final conviction against the directors of the management company or those of the custodian, pursuant to article L. 231-3, I and III of article L. 231-4, or articles L. 231-5 and L. 231-7, automati…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions relating to the production company

Article D331-1

For the purposes of I of Article 220 sexies of the French General Tax Code, a delegated production company is a production company which, as part of a co-production, takes the initiative and financial…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-12-1

I.-Preference shares bought back are used for the purposes set out in articles L. 225-204 to L. 225-214. II.-Preference shares repurchased in accordance with the provisions of III of Article L. 228-12…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 11: Account overdrafts

Article L312-92

Where the account agreement referred to in second paragraph of I of Article L. 312-1-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code provides for the possibility of an overrun, this agreement mentions the borrow…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Imports

Article 293 A quater

I.-In accordance with 4° of 2 of Article 293 A, the persons mentioned in II who lodge the import declaration or who appoint the person who lodges the declaration for this purpose may opt to be liable…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1a: Exemption for between two and five years

Article 1383 A

I. - Companies that benefit from the exemptions provided for in Articles 44 sexies and 44 quindecies, may be temporarily exempted under the conditions set out in Article 1464 C, from the property tax…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Opposition to duty and obstacles to tax control

Article 1735 quater

The obstacle to access to records or documents on a computer medium, to their reading or seizure, referred to in IVa of Article L. 16 B and to 4 and 4 bis of Article L. 38 of the Book of Tax Procedure…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Rights and guarantees for disabled workers.

Article L5213-6-1

In any company employing at least two hundred and fifty employees, a referent is appointed to guide, inform and support people with disabilities. For the purposes of this article, the number of employ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Processing of criminal records

Article R40-24

The processing consists of data collected in the context of procedures established by the police and national gendarmerie units, or by customs officers authorised to carry out judicial police duties.I…

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