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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 265

The annual list and the special list are sent by the chairman of the commission to the mayor of each municipality. The mayor is required to inform the first president of the court of appeal or the pre…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 264

A special list of alternate jurors shall also be drawn up each year by the commission, under the conditions provided for in Article 263, outside the annual list of jurors. Alternate jurors must reside…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 260

This list comprises, for the Assize Court of Paris, one thousand eight hundred jurors and, for the other Assize Court jurisdictions, one juror for every one thousand three hundred inhabitants, althoug…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Goods salvaged from shipwrecks.

Article 264

These goods or wrecks are under the dual surveillance of the Navy and Customs.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Goods salvaged from shipwrecks.

Article 263

Goods rescued from shipwrecks and wrecks of any kind collected or salvaged on the coast or at sea are deemed to be foreign, unless there is proof to the contrary.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 828 bis

1. The following are exempt from registration duties, land registration tax and the contribution provided for in Article 879 transfers of property, rights and obligations resulting from the transforma…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Value added tax

Article 285 bis

1. Publishers, collective rights management organisations and producers who pay the rights referred to in 2 of III of article 293 B must, except where the author has waived this arrangement pursuant t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1599 quater A bis

I. - The flat-rate tax mentioned in Article 1635-0 quinquies applies to rolling stock used on the public passenger transport lines mentioned in articles L. 2142-1 and L. 2142-2 of the Transport Code,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable persons

Article 4 B

1. The following shall be deemed to have their tax domicile in France within the meaning of Article 4 A : a. Persons who have their home or main place of residence in France; b. Those who carry on a p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: General provisions

Article 311 bis

The profession of distiller may only be exercised in a fixed establishment. However, individual derogations may be granted by order of the authority designated by decree on a proposal from the adminis…

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