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Showing 35313540 of 36440 articles for Art. Cass. com. 23 mai 2006 n° 04-19551

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Budgets and accounts

Article L4425-19

…account and exceeding the threshold provided for in the fourth paragraph of l'article 10 de la loi n° 2000-321 du 12 avril 2000 relative aux droits des citoyens dans leurs relations avec les administ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article L5211-24

…lace of the communes making up the public establishment, the allocations provided for in article L. 234-13 of the code des communes, as it stood prior to the loi n° 93-1436 du 31 décembre 1993 portant…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-4

I.-For the application of this sub-section: 1° The supply and service contracts mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 4122-2-1 are defined in accordance with Articles L. 1111-1, L. 1111-3, L.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Special arrangements applicable to distance sales of goods imported from third countries or territories

Article 298 sexdecies H

…self of the special scheme provided for in Section 4 of Chapter 6 of Title XII of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax may not, in respect of his t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-6

…pital expenditure in 2009 compared to the average of their real capital expenditure for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the expenditure to be taken into consideration is, from 2009, that relating to the pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article R225-71

…00 euros;c) 1% for the tranche of capital between 7,500,000 and 15,000,000 euros;d) 0.50% for the remainder of the capital.Reasons must be given for the request to include an item on the agenda.The re…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Metallic coins

Article R734-3

I. - Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Experimentation.

Article R5141-11

As stated in article R. 234-4 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, which reads as follows:"I. - Foodstuffs derived from an animal that has undergone a clinical trial on veterinary medicinal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Overall operating grant

Article L2113-22

…igible for communal equalisation grants under the conditions of ordinary law, subject to Article L. 2334-22-2.New communes that have benefited from the provisions of the second paragraph of this artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Industrial preparation and wholesale.

Article L5441-8-1

…rticle L. 5142-3 of this code in its version prior to the entry into force of Order no. 2022-414 of 23 March 2022, in accordance with III of Article 14 thereof, or have not been subjected to testing i…

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