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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Deductions

Article 271

I. - 1. The value added tax that has been charged on the price components of a taxable transaction is deductible from the value added tax applicable to that transaction.2. The right to deduct arises w…

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

Article L4331-2

…18-1479 of 28 December 2019 on finance for 2020:- that mentioned in I of Article 59 of Law no. 2003-1311 of 30 December 2003 on finance for 2004, taking into account Article 40 of Law no. 2005-1719 of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Etablissements publics de coopération intercommunale dotés d'une fiscalité propre.

Article L5211-28-4

I.-Urban communities, metropolises and the Lyon metropolis are required to introduce a community solidarity grant for the benefit of their member municipalities, with the aim of reducing the dispariti…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-105

I.-The extra-financial performance statement referred to in I of Article L. 225-102-1 and the consolidated non-financial performance statement mentioned in II of the same article present the business…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Public territorial establishments

Article L5219-8

Par dérogation à l'article L. 5217-12, the Greater Paris metropolitan area benefits from a global operating grant equal to the sum of the following two components:1° An inter-municipality grant, calcu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section 0I ter: Levy on sums paid by insurance and similar organisations in respect of insurance contracts in the event of death

Article 990 I

…able securities; b) Collective investments covered by articles L. 214-24-24 à L. 214-32-1 or L. 214-139 to L. 214-147 of the Monetary and Financial Code; c) Undertakings of the same type as the undert…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L1511-8

…rded by the local authorities and groupings concerned to the regional health agencies or, for Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, to the Prefect and to the local health insurance bodies. The health centres refe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Dotation d'équipement des territoires ruraux (rural amenities grant)

Article L2334-35

…2° of this article must be at least equal to 97% or, in the case of overseas departments and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, at least equal to 100%, and at most equal to 103% of the amount of the allocatio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Hospital duties for medical students.

Article D6153-58-1

…47, in Guadeloupe, Guyana, La Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin or Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon;5° Reimbursement of air travel costs, paid to medical students previously domicil…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Special provisions applicable to studies of the performance of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1126-5

…this control. They are subject to professional secrecy under the conditions defined by articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Penal Code.

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