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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 10: Work requiring the use of work equipment

Article D4153-29

…the transmissions, mechanisms and work equipment in question. II. - The prohibition mentioned in I may be waived under the conditions and in the forms provided for in section 3 of this chapter.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 161

…tter is greater than the amount of the contribution. Where the rights have been received, as from 1 January 2000, as part of an exchange transaction under the conditions provided for in article 150-0…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Imports

Article 292

…geable event occurs.When a good placed under one of the regimes mentioned in b of 2 of I of article 291 is released for consumption, the taxable amount also includes the services mentioned in 6° of I…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Combating mirror sites

Article L331-29

Any software publisher, any technical system manufacturer and any service operator may, in the event of refusal of access to information essential to interoperability, ask the Audiovisual and Digital…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-29

In the event of suspension of the effects of a cheque-writing ban pursuant to Article L. 643-12 of the French Commercial Code, the drawee shall send the Banque de France, no later than the second busi…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: The audit incident.

Article 295

…signed by the person who denied it, that person shall be sentenced to a civil fine of a maximum of 10,000 euros without prejudice to any damages that may be claimed.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Unavailability of sums, early release and liquidation.

Article R3332-29

Pursuant to the second paragraph of article L. 3332-16, the following events may exceptionally result in the rights built up in favour of participants being unlocked before expiry of the term of the b…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Title XI: Free trade zones.

Article 290

…f 4 and 5 below, and unless special provisions are made to the contrary, goods placed in free zones may, on leaving the free zone, be put to the same uses as if they had been imported directly and und…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to the procedure for release from psychiatric care without consent

Article R3211-29

…judge decides to refer the matter to himself pursuant to the last paragraph of I of article L. 3211-12, he shall give the person undergoing psychiatric care, his lawyer as soon as he has been appointe…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Imports

Article 291

…e 2009/132/EC of 19 October 2009 determining the scope of Article 143(b) and (c) of Directive 2006/112/EC as regards the exemption from value added tax of certain definitive imports of goods. An order…

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