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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-48

…Professional clients and eligible counterparties, in the absence of an equivalence decision by the European Commission as provided for in Article 47(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Right to remain in France

Article L573-2

…o is the subject of a request to be taken into care or taken back into care pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 may be placed under ho…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-133

Where the European Public Prosecutor personally conducts the investigation pursuant to Article 28(4) of Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation regarding…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and award conditions

Article 723-3

…established on the territory of a State participating in the "MEDIA" sub-programme of the "Creative Europe" programme, provided for in Regulation (EU) No 2021/818 of the European Parliament and of the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Harvest

Article 466

…ts are subject to the obligations laid down in Articles 8 to 10 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 of 11 December 2017 and are liable to the same duties as wines at the rate of one hecto…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Readmission of foreign nationals holding long-term resident status - EU granted by France

Article R621-13

When long-term resident - EU status is maintained, the administrative authority informs the State mentioned in article R. 621-10, which consulted it, of its decision. The foreign national and, where a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Capital increases

Article R22-10-32

…he last three trading days prior to the start of the public offer within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 2017/1129 of 14 June 2017, possibly reduced by a maximum discount of 10%.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General rules.

Article L324-1-2

…ance or insurance undertakings having their head office in France or in another Member State of the European Union, one or more provident institutions or unions governed by Title 3 of Book 9 of the So…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6: Payroll tax

Article 1679 A

…first bracket of the income tax scale. The result obtained is rounded, if necessary, to the nearest euro.A mutual insurer which, between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2018, establishes that it has ex…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SAINT-BARTHÉLEMY

Article R592-3

For the application of this book to Saint-Barthélemy: 1° References to the Prefect are replaced by references to the State representative in Saint-Barthélemy and references to the Prefecture are repla…

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