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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 231-27

…valuation in year n + 1 in the following cases:…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and operating rules

Article R783-21

…to R. 621-22n° 2018-572 of 3 July 2018R. 621-23n° 2019-798 of 26 July 2019R. 621-24n° 2021-29 of 14 January 2021R. 621-25no. 2014-551 of 27 May 2014R. 621-26Order no. 2018-1074 of 26 November 2018II.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and operating rules

Article R784-16

…to R. 621-22n° 2018-572 of 3 July 2018R. 621-23n° 2019-798 of 26 July 2019R. 621-24n° 2021-29 of 14 January 2021R. 621-25no. 2014-551 of 27 May 2014R. 621-26Order no. 2018-1074 of 26 November 2018II.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and operating rules

Article R782-21

…to R. 621-22n° 2018-572 of 3 July 2018R. 621-23n° 2019-798 of 26 July 2019R. 621-24n° 2021-29 of 14 January 2021R. 621-25no. 2014-551 of 27 May 2014R. 621-26Order no. 2018-1074 of 26 November 2018II.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
16°: Acquisitions of woods and forests and land for reforestation

Article 1137

…re land not subject to a prohibition on afforestation, recorded in a notarised deed signed before 1 January 2005, are exempt from any levy for the benefit of the Treasury if the purchaser undertakes i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Conditions for holding municipal office

Article L2573-8

I. - The articles L. 2123-25, L. 2123-28 and L. 2123-29 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II and IV. II. - For the application of the first…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 163 bis E

The income tax exemptions resulting from 25° and 26° of the article 81 apply subject to the provisions of article 150-0 D.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General rules

Article R2112-1

The threshold above which contracts must be concluded in writing is set at €25,000 excluding tax.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 196 bis

The situation to be taken into account is that existing on 1 January of the year of taxation. However, in the year of the occurrence or cessation of one or more of the events or conditions mentioned i…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Rights of data subjects

Article R142-58

…and 16 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 and by Articles 49 and 50 of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 may be exercised with the Director General of the French Office for Immigration and Int…

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