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Showing 63816390 of 6655 articles for Art. EU Regulation 2368/2002

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-13

…loyee trade union organisations and between professional employers' organisations are determined by regulation, in a uniform manner for employee trade union organisations and on the basis of audience…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Governance of the plan

Article R144-5

…her with a copy of its articles of association and, if the ACPR so requests, a copy of its internal regulations, so that it can be entered in the register kept by the ACPR. Within two months of receiv…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Allocations of free shares

Article L22-10-60

…by a General Meeting after the date of publication of the loi n° 2008-1258 du 3 décembre 2008 en faveur des revenus du travail ne peut intervenir que si les sociétés concernées modifient les modalités…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article L239-1

The Articles of Association may provide that the shares of sociétés par actions or the corporate units of sociétés à responsabilité limitée subject to corporation tax by operation of law or by option…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L713-1

…vision of a supplementary registration or a secondary registration, unless exempted by the laws and regulations in force, the natural persons mentioned in a and b of 1° and the legal entities mentione…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions for admission to the profession.

Article L811-5

…nless he or she meets the following conditions: 1° Be French or a national of a Member State of the European Community or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area; 2° Not have b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter VIII ter: Turnover tax on farmers

Article 302 bis MB

…added payments granted to farmers in respect of direct support allocated in application of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009, excluding turnover from forestry, shellfish farming a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Temporary exemptions

Article 1395

The following are exempt from property tax on undeveloped properties:1° Land sown, planted or replanted with woodland, for the first thirty years of sowing, planting or replanting. From 1 January of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Temporary exemptions

Article 1395 B bis

…question and compliance with the charters and management or objective documents approved under the regulations referred to above. If parcels eligible for the 50% exemption and the 100% exemption co-e…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Tax base

Article 1468

I. - The base for the business property tax is reduced:1° For agricultural cooperatives and unions of cooperatives and agricultural collective interest companies, by half;This reduction does not apply…

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