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Showing 36213630 of 20534 articles for Art. Cass. com. 17 January 2012

French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors.

Article R411-15

…the possible allocation of financial assistance to the State under the conditions set out inarticle 17 of the organic law no. 2001-692 of 1st August 2001 on finance laws; 6° The general conditions for…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4a: Administrative composition

Article L621-14-1

…II of the same Article L. 621-15, and with the professional obligations mentioned in Article L. 621-17, the AMF Board may, at the same time as it notifies the parties of the objections under the condi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Postal voting.

Article R713-18

…to send the votes corresponds to that shown on the summary statement referred to in Article R. 713-17. If a discrepancy is found, this is noted in the minutes initialled by each member of the committ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1465 A

…e Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques on the basis of data available at 1 January of the year of classification. The population taken into account for the calculation of popu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-22-1

…the tribunal pour enfants or the cour d'assises des mineurs de Paris ruling pursuant to Article 706-17, regardless of the place of detention or residence of the convicted person. To make decisions con…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions adapting Book VII.

Article R917-18

…of a declaration on their honour, that they meet the conditions laid down in C of I of article R. 917-17. "Each candidate from the college representing activities in the trades and crafts sector cert…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Special provisions for certain transfers

Article L1614-8-1

As from 1 January 2002, the costs transferred to the regions as a result of the transfer of powers provided for in Article 21-1 of the loi n° 82-1153 du 30 décembre 1982 d'orientation des transports i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5151-10

…f the personal activity account. In accordance with IV of article 26 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978, the implementation of each processing operation is subject to the prior submission to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 quinquies E

…ecember 1980. Structures meeting the criteria defined in the first paragraph and completed before 1 January 2011 may be subject to exceptional depreciation over twelve months provided that they are in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Special provisions for works of art

Article L1616-1

…uly 1983, the date of publication of law no. 83-663 of 22 July 1983 supplementing law no. 83-8 of 7 January 1983 relating to the division of powers between communes, départements, regions and the Stat…

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