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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-8-8

The fund is represented vis-à-vis third parties by the company responsible for its management. This company may take legal action to defend or assert the rights or interests of unitholders.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Export transactions

Article R442-8-8

The guarantee may cover the risk of non-payment of sums owed by French companies:a) French or foreign credit institutions, insurance companies or finance companies in respect of sureties, guarantees o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Commission du contentieux du stationnement payant (Pay parking disputes commission)

Article L2333-87-8

The court shall order the losing party to pay the other party the sum it determines, in respect of costs incurred and not included in the costs. The parties may produce evidence of the sums they claim…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article D214-80-8

If the funds referred to in article D. 214-80 are marketed by several distributors, the information on marketing and distribution costs given in the key investor information document, the fund rules,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Merchant accounting

Article A123-80-8

The file relating to a declaration of itinerant commercial or craft activity is kept until the date of the first anniversary of the date of renewal of the declaration or of the cessation of activity b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Gender equality in the workplace

Article R2242-9

The employer's request referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 2242-9 is sent by any means that provides proof of receipt by the regional director of companies, competition, consumption, labo…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons authorised to declare goods in detail, customs representatives.

Article 86

The conditions under which a customs representative may provide his services pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 estab…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Property wealth tax

Article 965

The basis of assessment for real estate wealth tax is the net value at 1 January of the year: 1° Of all the property and property rights belonging to the persons mentioned in article 964 as well as to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 863

Article 706-9 shall read as follows: "Art. 706-9.-The commission or, in Wallis and Futuna, the president of the court of first instance shall take into account in the amount of the sums awarded to the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Property wealth tax

Article 975

I.-The immovable property or rights mentioned in 1° of article 965 and the units or shares mentioned in 2° of the same article 965 representing these same properties or rights, when these properties o…

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