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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Registration on the jobseekers' list

Article R5221-48

…article L. 411-1 du code de l'entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d'asile…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Ie: Transparency and control procedures

Article R321-14

I. - The reports provided for in Article L. 326-1 are published on the website of the collective management organisations concerned and are maintained on this site, available to the public, for at lea…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operations.

Article R518-40

Sums deposited voluntarily may only be seized in the cases, forms and under the conditions provided for in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope of application.

Article L4111-3

The workshops of public or private establishments providing technical or vocational education, as well as those of the social and medico-social establishments and services mentioned in 2°, a of 5° and…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Exercise of the freedom to provide services and breach of obligations in connection with that exercise

Article L515-1

…who intends to carry on business for the first time in another Member State under the freedom to provide services regime shall send the following information to the body that keeps the register referr…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Exercise of the freedom to provide services and breach of obligations in connection with that exercise

Article L515-2

…insurance intermediary on an ancillary basis carrying on business in France under the freedom to provide services is in breach of any of the obligations laid down in Books I and V, it shall communicat…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Reception facilities

Article L551-9

…mmigration and Integration after their application has been registered by the competent administrative authority.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Reception facilities

Article L551-10

The applicant is informed, in a language he or she understands or may reasonably be expected to understand, that he or she may be refused material reception conditions or that they may be terminated u…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
V: Assessment of tax

Article 1478 bis

…case of the creation of an establishment, the exemption applies after the reduction in the base provided for in the last paragraph of II of article 1478. The exemption is subject to a deliberation by…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
V: Assessment of tax

Article 1478

I. - The business property tax is due for the entire year by the taxpayer who carries out the activity on 1 January.However, a taxpayer who ceases all activity in an establishment is not liable for th…

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