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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation

Article L5217-1

…and interregional cooperation and with a concern for balanced territorial development. On 1 January 2015, public establishments for intercommunal cooperation with their own tax status that form, on th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 244 quater M

I. - Companies taxed on the basis of their actual profits or exempt pursuant to Articles 44 sexies, 44 sexies A, 44 octies A , 44 terdecies to 44 septdecies may benefit from a tax credit equal to the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Uses of the professional prevention account

Article L4163-7

…who have not reached their sixtieth birthday. IV - For people aged at least fifty-two on 1 January 2015, the scale for acquiring points credited to the professional prevention account and the conditi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial acts

Article A743-9

…ission fee, per party 11.15 € 21 Pre-trial proceedings Proceedings before a judge-rapporteur 7.81 € 22 Contract or procedure schedule 7.81 € 23 Orders other than summary proceedings and payment orders…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1e: Taxpayers carrying on their professional activity within the framework of a partnership

Article 151 nonies

I. - Where a taxpayer carries on his professional activity within the framework of a company whose profits are, pursuant to the articles 8 and 8 ter, subject in his name to income tax in the category…

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

Article 212 bis

…al charges borne by an undertaking which is not a member of a group, within the meaning of Articles 223 A or 223 A bis, are deductible from taxable income subject to corporation tax up to the higher o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 quaterdecies

1 The net amount of short-term capital gains may be divided equally between the year in which they are realised and the following two years.It refers to the excess of these capital gains over capital…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1640

I. - The new municipality or, by concerted deliberations of principle taken before 1st October of the year preceding that of its creation, the municipalities and, where applicable, the public establis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Grounds for refusal of recognition and enforcement

Article 728-32

…n at the trial that led to the decision, except in the cases referred to in 1° to 3° of Article 695-22-1; 8° The sentence is time-barred under French law on the date of receipt of the certificate; 9°…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single section: Geographical indications protecting industrial and craft products

Article R721-2

…n pursuant to the provisions of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical stan…

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