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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Reimbursement by the State

Article R3232-7

The labour inspector checks whether the remuneration paid to employees over the past calendar year has been correctly distributed over twelve months. In the event that the remuneration has not been co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article R4341-3

…h financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the financial year shall be charged against the appropria…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-25

…h financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the financial year is charged against the appropriations…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE XI: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF FRENCH GUYANA

Article D71-114-2

…h financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the financial year is charged against the appropriations…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Fees charged by commercial court registrars

Article A743-16

All of the services performed by the commercial court clerk in the context of a professional recovery procedure appearing in number 145 of the table mentioned in article A. 743-8 gives rise to the col…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE XI: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF MARTINIQUE

Article D72-104-2

…h financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the financial year is charged against the appropriations…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Deductions from apprenticeship tax

Article D6241-32

…e L. 6241-2 due for the year. The expenses deducted correspond to the expenses actually paid by the company during the year preceding the deduction. These expenses cannot be carried forward or refunde…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: The National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-17

…tents for invention, utility certificates and supplementary protection certificates:-filing;-search report or supplementary search report;-supplementary claim from the eleventh;-petition for rectifica…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transitional provisions

Article R356-61

…red to respectively in the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 356-2 shall publish the annual report on the solvency and financial situation at group level referred to in Article L. 356-23 accor…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-6

…uption, postponement or abandonment referred to in article 913-5, borne by the delegated production company, is determined by the expert appointed by the production company in the form referred to in…

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