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Showing 76917700 of 27349 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 13-10-2021 n° 20-18.333

French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Capital gains realised by companies

Article 248 E

…a company and are exchanged as part of the transactions referred to in 1° of l'article 5 de la loi n° 86-793 du 2 juillet 1986 ou au titre IV de la loi n° 86-1067 du 30 septembre 1986 modifiée, la pl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article R4111-15

I.-The committee responsible for issuing the opinion provided for in article R. 4111-14 sits in a special panel for each profession.It comprises :1° The director general of the Centre national de gest…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article L5211-24

…llocations provided for in article L. 234-13 of the code des communes, as it stood prior to the loi n° 93-1436 du 31 décembre 1993 portant réforme de la dotation globale de fonctionnement et modifiant…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Indemnities of holders of office in the Martinique Assembly and of office in the Executive Council

Article L7227-22

…nd a half times the amount of the parliamentary allowance as defined in Article 1er de l'ordonnance n° 58-1210 du 13 décembre 1958 portant loi organique relative à l'indemnité des membres du Parlement…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-15

…the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC and Articles 56 and 110 de la loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés. II.The rights of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article R633-2

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or, where applicable, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall cooperate closely with the other competent authorities to ensure that the sanctions…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Sampling.

Article R5127-4

Except in the cases provided for in article R. 5127-13, a sample consists of three samples, one left with the owner or holder of the product, the second destined for the laboratory competent to carry…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia and New Caledonia

Article L351-5

…ICABLE ARTICLES IN THE WAY THEY THEY ARE WRITTEN L. 314-1 to L. 314-4 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-351 du 25 mars 2016 L. 314-5 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016 L. 31…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exceptional registration due to difficulties in financing cinematographic works linked to the health crisis

Article 919-22

For each production company, the amount of sums entered exceptionally is equivalent to the amount of sums entered in its automatic account which lapsed on 31 December 2021 in application of 1° of arti…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1 : Support for world cinema in partnership with the Institut français

Article 712-1

Financial aid is awarded jointly with the Institut français to support the development of co-productions of works that are representative of the world's cinematographies.The conditions for awarding th…

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