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French General Tax CodeIn force
E: Stamp duties, other duties and taxes

Article 1840 H

Any infringement of the texts regulating the payment of stamp duty on account with the Treasury is punishable by a fine of €15..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: MUNICIPALITIES IN OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article L2561-1

The provisions of Chapters III and IV of Title I of Book I of this Part and those of Article L. 2123-21 are not applicable to the communes of the departments of Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique and Réun…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article D47-38

By application of the provisions of Article 706-176, the judicial courts designated in the table below have jurisdiction to hear, in the districts defined in that table, the offences referred to in th…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: MUNICIPALITIES IN OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article R2561-1

The provisions of Chapters III and IV of Title I of Book I of this Part shall not apply to the communes of the departments of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, and Réunion..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE VI: MUNICIPALITIES IN OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS

Article R2562-1

The provisions of article R. 2224-33.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation

Article R1271-23

…L. 1271-1 issued by the issuer, covering the previous calendar year of issue. This report takes the form of a response to a questionnaire provided by the Banque de France to authorised issuers no late…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Employee participation on the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board.

Article L2373-4

…companies, or where this threshold is not reached and the special negotiating body so decides, the form of employee participation in the administrative or supervisory body of the company resulting fr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Local taxes, fees and charges

Article L2573-46

I. - The articles L. 2333-76 to L. 2333-78, with the exception of its second to fourth paragraphs, are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the provisions set out in II and III. I…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Experimentation

Article R5121-14

…inal product to be tested:a) Its special or scientific name or its code name ;b) Its pharmaceutical form ;c) Its qualitative and quantitative composition, using the international non-proprietary names…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IX: Special arrangements applicable to taxable persons supplying services to non-taxable persons or carrying out distance sales of goods or certain domestic supplies of goods

Article 298 sexdecies G

…supplied are in the same Member State, that same Member State. II. II - The taxable person shall inform the tax authorities when he commences his taxable activity, ceases it or modifies it to such an…

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