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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VII: Exceptional provisions specific to the Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin départements.

Article L670-8

…luded in the assets of a debtor who has been the subject of receivership proceedings opened after 1 January 1986.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Local tax on outdoor advertising

Article L2333-13

…that, by the person in whose interest the medium was created. When the medium is created after 1st January, the tax is due from the first day of the month following that in which the medium was creat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Expenditure by communes and groups of communes for municipal secondary and special education establishments (R).

Article D2321-16

Where a secondary or special education establishment, which was municipal on 1 January 1986, the date of transfer of responsibility, forms part of a school complex comprising one or more other establi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Provisions applicable to certain establishments not participating in the public hospital service

Article R6161-37

…the establishments mentioned in d or e of article L. 162-22-6 of the Social Security Code from 1st January of the following year. The request is submitted to the Director General of the Regional Heal…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4c: Partial deductibility of the general social contribution

Article 154 quinquies

…it from the allowances provided for in 1 ter or 1 quater of article 150-0 D, as it stood prior to 1 January 2018, the fixed allowance provided for in 1 of I of article 150-0 D ter or the 50% allowance…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of cinemas

Article R212-12

…cle…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Miscellaneous acts

Article A444-164

…sets, co-ownership, testamentary execution, management of mandate, sequestration and others (number 171 in table 5) gives rise to the collection of an emolument proportional to the highest chapter in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents

Article R614-14

…judicial decisions which have become res judicata taken pursuant to articles L. 614-12 and L. 615-17.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Incidents relating to the enforcement of the penal constraint

Article D49-90

…rt or the judge delegated by him shall be assisted by a court clerk. The articles D. 49-13 to D. 49-17 and D. 49-18 are applicable.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section.

Article R6414-5

In articles R. 6152-64 and R. 6152-245, the references to articles L. 225-2 and L. 225-17 of the Code de l'action sociale et des familles are replaced by the reference to article L. 225-2 of the Code…

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