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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 199 ter B bis

…whose capital is held by natural persons; > or c) Or by venture capital companies, venture capital mutual funds, specialised professional funds governed by article L. 214-37 of the French Monetary an…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1600

…ncière des entreprises) and an additional tax on the business value added tax (cotisation sur la valeur ajoutée des entreprises). It is collected on behalf of CCI France and divided between the region…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-25

Notwithstanding article 13 of the law of 16 and 24 August 1790 on the organisation of the judiciary, the judicial court alone has jurisdiction to rule on any action for compensation for damage resulti…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R321-1

…ned above; j) Non-commercial pecuniary losses; k) Other pecuniary losses. 17. Legal protection. 18. Assistance : Assistance to people in difficulty, particularly when travelling. 20. Life and death :…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information for borrowers

Article L341-26

…sions of the second paragraph, a creditor who grants credit without providing the borrower with the European Standardised Information Sheet referred to in Article L. 313-7 and the second paragraph of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Industrial property qualification

Article R421-3

As stated in Article R. 79 of the Code of Criminal Procedure: (...) bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record is issued: (....) 24° To the Director General of the Institut national de la propriété industr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Voting and electoral operations.

Article R723-25

The appeals mentioned in article R. 723-24 are open to any elector within eight days of the proclamation of the results. The appeal is also open to the prefect and the public prosecutor, who may exerc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases

Article R3821-7

For the application of article R. 3115-10 to Wallis and Futuna, the words: ", and in particular the results of the analyses provided for in article R. 1321-23 and the monitoring documents for the wate…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Direct production allowances for parity between women and men

Article 211-81

1° For cinematographic works belonging to the fiction genre, direct allocations are awarded when one of the following two conditions is met:- five points are obtained for a function or position held b…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXI bis: Protection of persons benefiting from exemptions or reductions in penalties for having prevented the commission of offences, for having stopped or mitigated the damage caused by an offence, or for having identified the perpetrators or accomplices of offences

Article 706-63-1

…or her identification or whereabouts is punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros. If the direct or indirect consequence of this disclosure is violence against this person or t…

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