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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and scope of application

Article L224-25-2

…to be developed in accordance with the consumer's specifications. With the exception of articles L. 224-25-10 and L. 224-25-11, they also apply to the supply of digital content on a physical medium us…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions for executing a payment transaction

Article L133-10

…accordance with the agreed procedures, as soon as possible and, in any event, within a period which may not exceed that provided for in Article L. 133-13, and shall, if possible and unless prohibited…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Exemption

Article 1594 I ter

The departmental councils of the overseas departments may, by deliberation, exempt from land registration tax or registration duty transfers of co-ownership shares in classified hotels, tourist reside…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Unavailability of sums, early release and liquidation.

Article L3332-25

…purchase company shares or to exercise options granted under the conditions set out in articles L. 225-177, L. 22-10-56 or L. 225-179 of the French Commercial Code. Company shares subscribed or purch…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to safeguard procedures, receivership, compulsory liquidation and conciliation procedures applicable to credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms.

Article R613-19

…tervention, the fund shall inform the depositor of the declaration procedures set out inarticle L. 622-24 of the French Commercial Code and decree no. 85-1388 of 27 December 1985 relating to the recei…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Public land registry service

Article 881 C

…re of property; 3° For the mention of the summons and the denunciations provided for in Article R. 322-9 of the Code of Civil Enforcement Procedures; 4° For the act noting the refusal to publish a sum…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 6 : Provisions common to certain methods of acquiring French nationality

Article 21-27

No one may acquire French nationality or be reinstated in this nationality if they have been convicted of crimes or offences constituting an attack on the fundamental interests of the Nation or an act…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter V: Overseas departments. Establishment and conservation of the land register

Article 1649 decies

I. - In the departments of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte and Reunion, a parcel-based land register is established and maintained at the State's expense, to be used as a basis for the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Establishment in France of persons authorised to conduct voluntary sales of furniture by public auction in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Article R321-67

…as mentioned in 3° of Article R. 321-18and the professional examination mentioned in article R. 321-22, the person concerned shall, at his or her choice, undergo an aptitude test before the selection…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Dotation départementale d'équipement des collèges (Departmental grant for secondary school facilities)

Article R3334-18

…nal prefect chooses, from the list drawn up in application of IV of article 13 of law no. 83-663 of 22 July 1983 relating to the division of powers between the communes, départements, regions and the…

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