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Showing 28212830 of 19306 articles for Art. Cass. 1re civ. 20 Oct. 2010

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sole sub-section: Conditions for holding office as a member of the council of a communauté de communes.

Article R5214-1

The maximum allowances voted, pursuant to article

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 244 quater M

…that meet the definition of a microenterprise given in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in appl…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions relating to the works

Article 511-4

…nematographic works, have obtained an exhibition licence authorising their showing before 1 January 2000;2° For short-length cinematographic works, have obtained a licence authorising their showing be…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1e: Taxpayers carrying on their professional activity within the framework of a partnership

Article 151 nonies

I. - Where a taxpayer carries on his professional activity within the framework of a company whose profits are, pursuant to the articles 8 and 8 ter, subject in his name to income tax in the category…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Appendices

Article Annexe à l'article R313-4

…ency] could change.(If applicable) For example, if the value of [borrower's home currency] falls by 20% compared to [currency of loan], the value of your loan will increase to [amount in borrower's ho…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 quaterdecies

1 The net amount of short-term capital gains may be divided equally between the year in which they are realised and the following two years.It refers to the excess of these capital gains over capital…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1640

I. - The new municipality or, by concerted deliberations of principle taken before 1st October of the year preceding that of its creation, the municipalities and, where applicable, the public establis…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section 0I: Exceptional tax on high incomes.

Article 223 sexies

…f calculating the average referred to in this II, the reference tax income determined in respect of 2009 and 2010 refers to that defined in 1° of IV of article 1417. It refers to that defined in 1 of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Powers and organisation for the protection of copyright and related rights

Article L331-12

…ne hand, public information on the existence of the security measures referred to in Article L. 331-20 of this code and, secondly, the signing of voluntary agreements likely to contribute to remedying…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Commencement of employment, management, remuneration and benefits

Article R6153-10

…s paid during each corresponding additional training period carried out pursuant to article R. 6153-20 remain identical to those of the immediately preceding training period.When one or more additiona…

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