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Showing 32313240 of 65950 articles for Art. CJUE 30-9-2021 aff. 299/20 and ord. 10-2-2022 aff. 191/21

French General Tax CodeIn force
Title IIa: Provisions common to direct taxes and turnover taxes

Article 302 septies B

I. - For tax purposes, the following constitute an element of the cost price of the land on which the building is erected:a. the fee paid, in respect of a given building, under the articles L 520-1 to…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-9

…y other person who assists a person in violating the prohibition provided for in articles L. 232-23 and L. 232-23-4 and persons who have committed a breach of article L. 232-10-3 or article L. 232-10-…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Authorised bodies.

Article R5221-30-1

The bodies responsible for implementing the assessment procedures provided for in this Title shall be authorised for this purpose by a decision of the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécur…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation

Article R4422-30-1

…R. 4134-24 to R. 4134-27 are applicable to members of the Corsican economic, social, environmental and cultural council. The Assembly of Corsica is competent to take the deliberation provided for in…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Use for professional retraining projects

Article D4163-30-5

…isation of the rights of holders of a professional prevention account. The amount of the allocation and the procedures for paying the corresponding sums to the regional joint inter-professional commis…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Use for professional retraining projects

Article D4163-30-4

…relating to the reimbursement of the costs mentioned in I of article R. 6323-14-3 are consolidated and sent to the body mentioned in the second paragraph of article R. 4163-15. The procedures for con…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for authorisation

Article D3512-9-2

…renewable under the same conditions. Approval is published on the website of the Ministry of Health and the list of approved laboratories is sent by the Ministry of Health to the European Commission.

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Decisions and appeals.

Article R464-9-2

…se or order the companies to take measures to put an end to the anti-competitive practices observed and indicate the amount proposed as a settlement, or one of these last two measures only. For each c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Person responsible.

Article R1222-9-2

The person in charge must satisfy the conditions for practising medicine or pharmacy and have at least two years' practical experience in the field of blood transfusion in one or more blood transfusio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Alternative care structures to hospitalisation

Article D6124-301-1

Part-time day or night hospitalisation facilities and facilities providing outpatient anaesthesia or surgery provide the care provided for in article R. 6121-4, lasting twelve hours or less and not in…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
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