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Showing 22412250 of 62496 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 19 December 1983 · Cass. 3e civ. 2 October 2002 · Cass. 3e civ. 3 May 2006

French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 AH

…or mobile and intended for use in industrial automation applications, acquired or created between 1 October 2013 and 31 December 2016, may be subject to exceptional depreciation over twenty-four month…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article R612-3

…h shall be annexed: 1° A description of the invention, accompanied, where appropriate, by drawings; 2° One or more claims; 3° An abstract of the technical content of the invention; 4° Where appropriat…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Budgetary and accounting system

Article R232-34

The Chairman of the Agency may decide, with the approval of the Accounting Officer, to:1° an ex gratia remission of the agency's debts in the event of hardship to debtors ;2° Total or partial remissio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Assistance for employees on part-time work

Article R5122-3

By way of derogation from article R. 5122-2, the employer has a period of thirty days from the date on which the employees are placed on partial activity to send his request by any means giving a cert…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: General and compulsory formalities on pain of nullity of seizure reports.

Article 324

…seizure. Where there are several Customs offices or posts in the same locality, the seized articles may be transported to any one of them. b) When they cannot be taken immediately to the office or pos…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 380-3-1

…he case cannot be held before the expiry of this period, the president of the investigating chamber may, in exceptional circumstances, by a decision stating the factual or legal reasons preventing the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Provisions relating to the performance of preparations which may present a health risk

Article R5125-33-1

I.-The authorisation to carry out preparations which may present a risk to health mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 5125-1-1 is requested by the pharmacist holding the dispensary concern…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Provisions applicable to hunting accidents.

Article R421-24

…of an accident resulting from hunting or the destruction of vermin, the provisions of articles R. 421-4 to R. 421-10 apply to the rights and obligations of the responsible party, the victim, the insu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Complaints

Article R4163-39

…ction decision or, in the event of implicit rejection, the acknowledgement of receipt of the claim; 2° Information held by the management body or received from each of the parties; 3° Information prov…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 381

…en totally withdrawn or whose rights have been withdrawn for one of the reasons set out in articles 378 and 378-1 may, by petition, obtain from the court, on proof of new circumstances, the restoratio…

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