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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Employee adviser

Article D1232-9

…onthly by the State for the salaries maintained in application of the provisions of article L. 1232-9 as well as all the benefits and corresponding social security charges for which it is responsible.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Regional Intervention Fund

Article L1435-9

…take into account changes made during the year and transfers decided in application of Article L. 174-1-2 of the Social Security Code;2° (Repealed) ;3° Where applicable, a grant from the Caisse nation…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: European Works Council set up by agreement.

Article L2342-9

…owers of the European Works Council and the arrangements for information and consultation within it;4° The arrangements for linking the information and consultation of the European Works Council with…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Time limits and forms of appeal

Article 380-9

The appeal shall be lodged within ten days of the delivery of the judgment. However, the time limit shall run only from the service of the judgment, by whatever method, on the party who was not presen…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 972 ter

For the application of article 965 and under the same conditions, shares in property investment companies mentioned in I of article 208 C when the taxpayer holds, directly and, where applicable, indir…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions applicable to companies established in France

Article R123-9

…a retention service offered by the single body under conditions that comply with Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on data processing, files and freedoms and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Par…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Taxes levied for the benefit of the Ile-de-France region

Article 1599 quater D

…roduced for the benefit of the Ile-de-France region.The proceeds of this tax are decided, before 31 December each year, for the following year, up to a ceiling of 80 million euros, by the Ile-de-Franc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Examination of an application for authorisation

Article R151-9

…peration, in the economic and regulatory conditions under which the activities listed in article R. 151-3 by the entity that is the subject of the investment; 2° In the event of a change in the shareh…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Subscription of shares

Article L214-96

…until all offers to sell shares that have been entered in the register provided for in Article L. 214-93 for more than three months have been satisfied at a price less than or equal to that asked of n…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Jurisdiction and procedure before courts of first instance

Article 712-9

If the non-detained sentenced person, duly summoned to the address declared to the sentence enforcement judge under whose supervision he or she is placed, fails, without legitimate reason, to attend t…

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