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Showing 20912100 of 49673 articles for Art. Cass. com. 2 December 2008

French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The jury

Article A212-20

By 31 December each year at the latest, the national joint employment and training committees with competence in the field of entertainment and sport propose for the following year, at the request of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Company accounts and accounting documents.

Article R533-2

The provisions of Articles R. 533-1, R. 612-34, R. 612-36 to R. 612-50 and R. 613-10 to R. 613-23 also apply to the persons mentioned in Article 4 of Article L. 440-2.The Autorité de contrôle prudenti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Corsica

Article 297

…ica, value added tax is levied at the rate of:1° 0.90% for the transactions referred to in articles 281 quater and 281 sexies ;2° 2.10% as regards:The transactions referred to in 1°, 1°-00 bis, 1°-0 b…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The officers of the fund and the assistance of the accountants of the Directorate-General of Public Finance

Article R518-24

…may use the services of an external service provider under the conditions set out in II of Article 201 of Finance Act 2018-1317 of 28 December 2018 for 2019 and Decree 2019-1443 of 23 December 2019 r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-2

…st Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted in New York on 10 December 1984, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid down in Article 689-1 any perso…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Grants and subsidies

Article L2564-26

Until 31 December 2013, by way of derogation from Article L. 2334-29, the amount of the special allocation for housing teachers in Mayotte is calculated by multiplying the number of teachers concerned…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Cash and cash equivalents

Article R6332-27

The cash available to a skills operator at 31 December of a given year for work-linked training or the skills development plan may not exceed one third of the expenses recorded during the last financi…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Administrative regime for ships

Article 235

…services, previously paid and those payable in the place where the new port of registry is located.2. The same rule applies to any ship which has been registered in a territory of the French Republic…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Title XI: Free trade zones.

Article 287

…procedures and boundaries of the zone and specifies the operations that will be authorised therein. 2. The decree establishing the free zone grants it to one of the local authorities or public establi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 216

…cluding the tax credit, received: 1° By a company that is a member of a group mentioned in articles 223 A or 223 A bis by virtue of a holding in another company that is a member of that group; 2° By a…

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