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Showing 11511160 of 18954 articles for Art. Cass. crim. – 31 Oct. 2000

French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Income from bonds

Article 119

Income is determined: 1° For bonds, participating securities, public bills and loans, by the interest or income distributed during the year; 2° For lots, by the amount of the lot itself; 3° For redemp…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 209 quater D

Profits placed under the exemption regime subject to reinvestment provided for in article 238 octies are attached to the results of the current financial year when they are distributed. They are retai…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Rules of jurisdiction and procedure

Article D49-24

…ed of a crime. The expert or experts referred to pursuant to the provisions of articles 712-21, 723-31, 731-1, 763-3, D. 49-23, D. 147-36 and D. 147-37 or the provisions of this article must in their…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Determination of taxable income

Article 73 E

I. - Notwithstanding the provisions of Article L. 323-13 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, the contribution of an asset by a farmer to a Groupement agricole d'exploitation en commun const…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial and accounting provisions.

Article R6113-47

…sation of public and private health establishments provided for by III ter of article 40 of law no. 2000-1257 of 23 December 2000 on the financing of social security for 2001.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 145-5

The remand in custody of a person who, during questioning by the investigating judge prior to referral to the liberty and custody judge, makes it known that that he/she has sole parental authority ove…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3141-13

Holiday is taken during a period which in all cases includes the period from 1 May to 31 October each year.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Implementing measures

Article L412-5

…91 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, combating corruption and modernising economic life and until 31 December 2018. The implementing rules for the indication of origin referred to in the first parag…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for issuing authorisations

Article R5139-3-1

I. - Before issuing the authorisation applied for, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines a…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-30

…13, Article 14, Article 15 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 15a of amended Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the ide…

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