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Showing 29212930 of 20267 articles for Art. Cass. ch. mixte – 16 Dec. 2005 – no. 04-10986

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Identification and verification of the identity of the beneficiary of life insurance or capitalisation contracts

Article R561-10-3

…rs, where the annual premium exceeds the thresholds set for these contracts in 1° of Article R. 561-16, under the following conditions: 1° Where the beneficiaries of the contracts are persons or legal…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L512-63

Cooperative banks are credit institutions. They may receive deposits from any natural or legal person. They must grant at least 80% of their loans to their members, their members' members, cooperative…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Exemption

Article 1594 H

The departmental council may, by deliberation, exempt from land registration tax or registration fees, acquisitions by HLM organisations or semi-public companies of residential properties built or acq…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the ethics officer for local elected representatives

Article R1111-1-B

The decision appointing the compliance officer(s) or the members of the college that make up the compliance officer(s) shall specify the term of office, the procedures for referring matters to him/her…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS FOR INTERCOMMUNAL COOPERATION

Article L5210-1-1

I. - In each department, based on an assessment of the coherence of the perimeters and an inventory of the distribution of the competences of the existing groupings and their exercise, a departmental…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Access by the National Commission to information covered by medical confidentiality

Article R1142-41-1

…e recipient of the request has electronically signed it in accordance with the provisions of Decree no. 2017-1416 of 28 September 2017 on electronic signatures, under conditions that comply with best…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L511-21

In this subsection and for the application of the provisions relating to freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services :1. Banking service" means a banking operation within the meaning of A…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Authorisation decisions

Article R1333-126

…hat of the environment and to inform the Nuclear Safety Authority as referred to in Article R. 1333-16 ; 2° The frequency with which an estimate is made of the doses to which the population is exposed…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter V: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article R*595-1

The following provisions are applicable in French Polynesia in their wording resulting from Decree no. 2020-1734 of 16 December 2020, unless otherwise stated or mentioned as applying automatically in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Banknotes.

Article D122-11

The rules for recycling euro banknotes are set out in the Decision of the European Central Bank of 16 November 2010 on the authenticity and fitness checking and recirculation of euro banknotes (ECB/20…

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