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Showing 901910 of 30105 articles for Art. Décret 2015-1763 du 24-12-2015

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Low-voltage lines, pipes and installations inside premises A.

Article R4534-129

…by having or carrying out effective insulation by covering bare or insufficiently insulated live conductors and parts or parts likely to be brought into contact with them.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Low-voltage lines, pipes and installations inside premises A.

Article R4534-127

…e work, there is a risk of workers coming directly or indirectly into contact either with a live conductor or live conductive part which is bare or insufficiently insulated, or with a metal mass which…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Low-voltage lines, pipes and installations inside premises A.

Article R4534-128

…g in a visible manner; 3° Protects himself against the unexpected re-energising of the power supply during the work, preferably by locking the corresponding switchgear or isolating devices in the open…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Amending entries.

Article R123-122

…the rules of simplified judicial liquidation; o) Adopting the plan for the disposal of the business during receivership or judicial liquidation proceedings; p) Amending the disposal plan; q) Declaring…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4b: Compensation for victims of sodium valproate or its derivatives

Article L1142-24-11

…he adversarial principle. If necessary, it will commission an expert opinion, but professional or industrial secrecy may not be invoked against it. The college is chaired by a member of the Conseil d'…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: The application

Article 1218

…to be protected and a statement of the facts requiring this protection under articles 428 and 494-1 du même code.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXXV: Tax credit for interest-free repayable advances to finance the acquisition or construction of a principal residence

Article 244 quater J

…re eligible for a tax credit in respect of non-interest-bearing repayable advances granted to individuals, subject to means testing, for the acquisition or construction of a primary residence for firs…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Master and feeder general purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-57

I. - The articles of association or fund rules of a general-purpose investment fund known as a "feeder general-purpose investment fund" may stipulate that all of its assets are invested in shares or u…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XLIX: Tax credit for low-income housing associations investing in new housing in overseas France

Article 244 quater Y

5° 80% of the tax advantage provided by the tax reduction applied to the investment and by the deduction of the deficit arising from the rental of the property acquired and the capital loss realised o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XXVII: Tax credit for research expenditure by industrial, commercial or agricultural companies

Article 244 quater B

I. - Industrial, commercial or agricultural businesses taxed on the basis of their actual profits or exempt pursuant to Articles 44 sexies, 44 sexies A, 44 octies A, 44 duodecies, 44 terdecies to 44 s…

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