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Showing 42714280 of 37142 articles for Art. Cass. 1re civ. 19 March 1996 · Cass. com. 15 September 2009 · Cass. com. 16 January 1973 · Cass. 1re civ. 14 March 1962 · Cass. com. 12 November 2008 · Cass. com. 9 October 2019 n° 18-13.286

French General Tax CodeIn force
j: Contributions or premiums paid to people's pension savings plans or under certain compulsory or optional supplementary pension schemes or in respect of supplementary guarantees under pension savings plans.

Article 163 quinvicies

…paragraph of 2° of article 83, of a bis, a ter, b bis of 18° and 18° bis of article 81, of article 163 bis AA and du d du 1 du I de l'article 163 quatervicies do not apply to the portion correspondin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Start-up and shut-down controls

Article R4324-14

Each workstation or part of the work equipment is fitted with an operating device enabling either all the work equipment or only part of it to be stopped, depending on the existing risks, so that the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to canvass.

Article D341-15

The rights of access and rectification provided for respectively in articles 39 and 40 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978 may be exercised with the Banque de France and the persons having app…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Civil status documents concerning soldiers and sailors in certain special cases.

Article 95

In the cases provided for in paragraphs 2 and 3 of article 93, civil status records are drawn up in a special register, the keeping and preservation of which are regulated by order of the Minister of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Domiciliation of registered natural and legal persons.

Article R123-168

…n its premises during that period or who have terminated their domiciliation, and each year, before 15 January, a list of persons domiciled on 1 January. 2° The domiciled person undertakes to use the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IX: Special provisions applicable to motor vehicle accidents occurring abroad.

Article L421-12

The guarantee fund is also responsible for compensating victims when the accident caused by a vehicle referred to in article L. 421-11 occurs during a journey directly linking two territories where th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Low-voltage lines, pipes and installations inside premises A.

Article R4534-127

…n, provided however that the work is carried out under the conditions laid down in articles R. 4534-129 and R. 4534-130.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Reporting and information requirements

Article L561-15

I. - The persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall be required, under the conditions laid down in this chapter, to report to the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 the sums entered in their b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Ia: Business value added tax

Article 1586 quinquies

…d in accordance with 2, 3 and 4 of I is, for the application of the first paragraph of I of article 1586 ter and for the application of article 1586 quater, corrected to correspond to a full year.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Ia: Business value added tax

Article 1586 ter

…ried out under a trust agreement who carry out an activity under the conditions set out in articles 1447 et 1447 bis and whose turnover exceeds €152,500 are subject to the business value added contrib…

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