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Showing 341350 of 44086 articles for Art. Décret n° 2015-587 du 29 mai 2015

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the enforcement judge

Article D49-29

An individual file concerning each convicted offender monitored by this magistrate is kept at the registry of the sentence enforcement judge. This file includes copies of the documents from the procee…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IIa: Second-hand goods, works of art, collectors' items and antiques

Article 297 D

…rt, collectors' items or antiques that have been taxed in accordance with the provisions of Article 297 A is not deductible by the purchaser;2° Taxable resellers may not deduct the value added tax rel…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article L533-29

…on ensuring a well-defined, transparent and consistent division of responsibilities, effective procedures for identifying, managing, monitoring and reporting the risks to which they are or may be expo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Liability and protection of elected representatives

Article L3123-29

…on against any violence, threats or insults of which they may be the victims in the course of their duties and to compensate, where appropriate, any resulting damage. The department is subrogated to t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Liability and protection of elected representatives.

Article L4135-29

…ce-presidents or the regional councillors who have been delegated benefit, on the occasion of their duties, from protection organised by the region in accordance with the rules laid down by the penal…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 6: Hire purchase and hire with a promise to sell

Article D313-29

…f the share of payments corresponding to the capital value of the property to be made up to the scheduled date of transfer of ownership.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Conditions for recognising the evidential value of documents containing personal health data created or reproduced in digital form and for destroying documents stored in a form other than digital

Article L1111-29

…essed. The document created in this way is presumed to be reliable until proven otherwise when a production process has been used which allows the insertion of the metadata necessary to guarantee the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIIIa: Basic excess

Article 293 G

I. - The taxable persons referred to in III of article 293 B who meet the conditions for exemption and who have not opted for payment of value added tax are excluded from the benefit of the exemption…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Dissolution.

Article L5214-29

A community of communes that has not carried out any activity for at least two years may be dissolved by order of the representative(s) of the State in the department(s) concerned following the opinio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Experts involved in voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-29

The operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction mentioned in Article L. 321-4, bailiffs and notaries may, under their sole responsibility, enlist the help of experts, whatever their ap…

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