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Showing 34413450 of 19721 articles for Art. Cass. crim. 22 August 2018

French General Tax CodeIn force
2 undecies: Companies located in dynamic urban areas

Article 44 sexdecies

I.-In the urban areas to be revitalised defined in II, companies that are created between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2023 and, when they are located in the communes mentioned in the sixth paragrap…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Quarantine and isolation measures

Article R3131-19

…notified to the person who is the subject of the measure. In the cases mentioned in article R. 3131-22, this notification is also sent, as appropriate, to the person exercising parental authority, the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Petroleum products

Article 298

…he amount, of fuels in the tax categories of diesel and petrol within the meaning of Article L. 312-22 of the code of taxes on goods and services for vehicles and machinery excluded from the right to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3b: Equalised compensation scheme

Article L3334-16-3

…nts participating, pursuant to article 43 of law no. 2021-1900 of 30 December 2021 on finance for 2022, in the experiment relating to the recentralisation of the solidarity income mentioned in article…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Financing conditions

Article 311-8

…audiovisual works and its annual turnover within the meaning ofArticle 2 of Decree no. 2021-793 of 22 June 2021 on on-demand audiovisual media services, achieved in the calendar year preceding that o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 706-25-2

…nd by professional secrecy, under the conditions and subject to the penalties laid down in articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the Penal Code.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Composition and management of the plan.

Article L3332-15

…ancial Code; 3° Shares issued by companies referred to in paragraph II of article 83 bis andarticle 220 quater A of the General Tax Code; 4° Shares issued by companies created under the conditions set…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article D45-16

In accordance with the provisions of articles 39-3 and 495-22, the Public Prosecutor of the Judicial Court of Rennes is competent to: 1° Where the information in the official report does not comply wi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L4331-2

…the following fractions determined under the conditions provided for in IX of Article 60 of Law No. 2018-1479 of 28 December 2019 on finance for 2020:- that mentioned in I of Article 59 of Law no. 200…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Safeguard plan.

Article L626-1

…are subject to the provisions of Section 1 of Chapter II of Title IV and to those of article L. 642-22. However, the mandataire judiciaire carries out the tasks entrusted to the liquidator. In additio…

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