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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Flat-rate tax on network companies

Article 1519 E

…The flat-rate tax is payable each year by the operator of the electricity generating facility on 1 January of the tax year.III. - The amount of the flat-rate tax is based on the installed capacity of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Reduction in the rental value of certain properties

Article 1518 A quater

…50% allowance applied to the rental value of buildings that are subject to initial taxation from 1 January 2016, assigned directly to the operations mentioned in a of II of Article 244 quater Band as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to personnel.

Article R6113-52

…employ contract staff under public law, who are subject to the provisions of decree no. 86-83 of 17 January 1986 relating to the general provisions applicable to non-tenured State employees taken for…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-18

…t with an on-demand audiovisual media service within the meaning of Article 2 of Law No. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 provides for the transmission of information on the number of acts of downloading,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Powers of the public prosecutor at the court of appeal

Article 35

…ctions sent for this purpose by the Minister of Justice pursuant to the second paragraph of article 30. The Public Prosecutor has, in the exercise of his functions, the right to directly request the f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Employer's obligations

Article L1233-57-14

…d response to each of the takeover offers received, within the deadlines set out in Article L. 1233-30.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Compulsory expenditure

Article L2321-5

…hs recorded in this establishment and the population of the commune in which it is situated exceeds 30%. The contribution of each municipality is fixed by applying to the expenditure referred to in th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Savings and provident institutions

Article L512-89

…local savings company in the savings and provident institution with which it is affiliated exceeds 30% of the total voting rights, the number of votes allocated to it is reduced accordingly. The perc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Closure of judicial liquidation proceedings

Article L643-12

…ffects of the cheque-writing ban to which the debtor is subject under article 65-3 of the decree of 30 October 1935 unifying the law on cheques and relating to payment cards, implemented on the occasi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General procedural rules

Article R331-31

The experts referred to in Article R. 331-30 are appointed by the chairman of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique on a proposal from the rapporteur in charge of i…

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