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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Investor protection

Article L763-11

…e exception of its 3rd paragraph Law no. 2003-706 of 1st August 2003 L. 452-3 and L. 452-4Order no. 2000-1223 of 14 December 2000 II.-For the application of I: 1° Article L. 452-1 is amended as follow…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Investor protection

Article L762-11

…e exception of its 3rd paragraph Law no. 2003-706 of 1st August 2003 L. 452-3 and L. 452-4Order no. 2000-1223 of 14 December 2000 II.-For the application of I: 1° Article L. 452-1 is amended as follow…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to certain transfers of powers (R)

Article R1614-110

…f these services or having been made available to these services, was actually used during the year 2000 for the needs of these services, shall be deemed to be assigned to the services transferred to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article D14-1

The judicial police officers listed in article 21 shall give an account of all crimes, offences or contraventions of which they have knowledge in the form of reports sent to their hierarchical superio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 697-4

The courts referred to in Article 697 based in Paris also have jurisdiction to hear crimes and offences committed outside the territory of the Republic by members of the French armed forces or against…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-17-2

For the trial of misdemeanours and felonies falling within the scope of Article 706-16, the First President of the Paris Court of Appeal may, on the recommendation of the Public Prosecutor, after cons…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4 : Smoothing or spreading devices

Article 75-0 B

At the option of taxpayers with agricultural profits subject to an actual taxation system, the agricultural profit used as the basis for the progressive tax is equal to the average of the profits for…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter III: Other duties and taxes

Article 1018 A

…il interests, are subject to a fixed procedural fee payable by each convicted person.This fee is:1° 31 € for criminal orders in contraventional or correctional matters;2° 31 € for other decisions of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Financial provisions

Article L4414-7

As from 1 January 2000, a fraction of the annual tax on office premises, commercial premises and storage premises, governed by article 231 ter of the General Tax Code, is allocated to the Ile-de-Franc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1764

I. - (Expired).II. - (Expired).III. - The transferee company that does not comply with the conversion or construction commitment mentioned in II of Article 210 F is liable for a fine equal to the amou…

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