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Showing 67716780 of 8432 articles for Art. CJEU – Pierre Fabre – 13 Oct. 2011 – C-439/09

French General Tax CodeIn force
14° : Tax reduction granted for cash subscriptions to the capital of companies and for subscriptions to shares in innovation investment funds (fonds communs de placement dans l'innovation)

Article 199 terdecies-0 AB

…e of general economic interest, within the meaning of Commission Decision 2012/21/EU of 20 December 2011 on the application of Article 106(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Micro-enterprise scheme

Article 50-0

…e business assets are included in a trust estate pursuant to a trust transaction defined in article 2011 of the Civil Code;i) Taxpayers who carry out an occult activity within the meaning of the secon…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Points scale for animated works

Article 211-12

For cinematographic works in the animation genre, points are divided into six groups as follows: I.-Production company and authors" group A maximum of 35 points are allocated to the "Production compan…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Points scale for works of fiction

Article 211-10

For cinematographic works in the fiction genre, points are divided into five groups as follows: I.-Language of Filming" group 1° A maximum of 20 points is allocated to the "Language of Filming" group;…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article L621-15

…for simple, transparent and standardised securitisations and amending Directives 2009/65/ EC, 2009/138/ EC and 2011/61/ EU and Regulations (EC) No 1060/2009 and (EU) No 648/2012, the penalties provid…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Provisions specific to specialised financing bodies

Article L214-190-1

…tered office in another Member State of the European Union, authorised in accordance with Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2011 and authorised by its compet…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L211-3

…performance, phonogram, videogram or press programme or publication under the conditions defined in 13° of Article L. 122-5.The exceptions listed by this article may not interfere with the normal expl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Health protection.

Article L1521-1

…ng from Law no. 2021-1017 of 2 August 2021.Articles L . 1110-4-1, L. 1110-8, L. 1110-12 and L. 1110-13 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna in their wording resulting from Law no. 2016-41 of 26 January…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AE

…ligation of professional secrecy, the breach of which is provided for and punishable by Article 226-13 of the Penal Code shall, with his client's consent, make the declaration referred to in article 1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER: General provisions

Article L4221-5

…thorise, on behalf of the region, the renewal of membership of associations of which it is a member;13° To proceed, after receiving the opinion of the regional programming committee, with the allocati…

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