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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 302 bis ZA

…additional tax to the tax on commercial surfaces provided for by the article 3 of law no. 72-657 of 13 July 1972 instituting measures in favour of certain categories of elderly shopkeepers and craftsm…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1463 A

…ven years from the year following their creation, the exemption applies to half of the net taxable base for the benefit of each territorial authority or public establishment for inter-communal coopera…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 59 ter

…istration contributes. The information communicated must be necessary for the performance of these tasks or for better use of public expenditure devoted to the development of foreign trade. II. This i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 732-1

Where the person has been sentenced to life imprisonment for one of the crimes referred to in Article 706-53-13 and has been conditionally released with a care order, the regional secure detention cou…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Implementation conditions.

Article L7122-24

…employment declaration provided for in article L. 1221-10 ; 2° providing an employment certificate, as provided for in article L. 1234-19 ; 3° The drafting, content and transmission of the fixed-term…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Job security contract

Article D1233-51

When a company has concluded an agreement in application of the first paragraph of article L. 6331-10, the employer pays to the skills operator, designated by the branch agreement to which the company…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions relating to Mayotte

Article R1524-2

…ty schemes in force in the territorial collectivity of Mayotte and for the investment of the liquid assets of the Mayotte social security fund"; 2° In 2°, the words: "or, in the case of an agricultura…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Composition of the Assize Court

Article A36-12

…cle 260, the number of jurors appearing on the annual lists drawn up within the jurisdiction of the assize courts listed below is set as follows:DEPARTEMENTSNUMBER OF JURORS on the annual listAlpes-Ma…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation

Article D2352-16

…lation of the employee majorities referred to in the first and second paragraphs of Article L. 2352-13, each member holding a seat on the special negotiating body allocated to a Member State represent…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Voluntary termination of pregnancy by medication

Article R2311-20

…ment's in-house pharmacy, which supplies the centre under the conditions set out in article R. 5126-13.In the absence of a pharmacist, the director or another doctor or midwife of the centre, designat…

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