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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Tax base

Article 1411 bis

…article 6 of law no. 89-462 of 6 July 1989 aimed at improving rental relations and amending the loi n° 86-1290 du 23 décembre 1986, is calculated pro rata to the length of time the premises were used…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Interest on arrears, flat-rate compensation and additional compensation for recovery costs

Article L2192-14

Any waiver of payment of default interest shall be deemed unwritten.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R2192-14

The date of receipt of the request for payment and the date of performance of the services shall be established by the services of the contracting authority or, where applicable, by the project manage…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Information and documents to be submitted with the tender

Article R2151-14

In the consultation documents, the purchaser may require tenderers to provide a test report from an accredited conformity assessment body as proof of compliance with the technical specifications, awar…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Information and documents to be submitted with the tender

Article R2351-14

When the performance of a defence or security contract involves, requires or includes information or media protected or classified in the interests of national security, the purchaser shall request, i…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Foreign nationals whose state of health requires medical treatment

Article R425-14

The foreign national referred to in article L. 425-9 who does not meet the condition of habitual residence may receive a renewable provisional residence permit for the duration of his treatment.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Transfer to another Member State of the European Union

Article R581-14

The préfet de département and, in Paris, the préfet de police may refer the matter to another EU Member State for the purposes of transferring a foreign national who is a beneficiary of temporary prot…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Solidarity fund for municipalities in the Ile-de-France region

Article L2531-14

I. - The resources of the solidarity fund for the communes of the Ile-de-France region are distributed among the communes of this region with more than 5,000 inhabitants whose value of the synthetic i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Automated national register of refusals to take blood samples

Article R1232-14

The Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine, after obtaining the opinion of the Board of Directors, sends the Minister for Health an annual report on the activity and operation of the automat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transport of explosive substances or objects within the site

Article R4462-14

For the transport of explosive substances or objects to or from the public highway, the employer draws up a document which, taking into account the nature of the load, indicates precisely the authoris…

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