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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VI: Disputes relating to the award of private law public procurement contracts

Article 1441-3-1

…educed to at least eleven days in the event of electronic transmission of the notification to all interested contractors. II.-For its application in Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the Wal…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-1

When the Secretary General of the Agence française de lutte contre le dopage decides to carry out the investigations mentioned in 3° of I of article L. 232-5, he shall authorise the investigators in a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to minors and adults.

Article 1253

…e allows, their lawyer, if applicable, and, if the inventory is not carried out by a public or ministerial officer, two witnesses of full age who are not in the service of the protected person or the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to minors and adults.

Article 1254

At the end of the annual task of verifying and approving the management account, a copy of it shall be placed in the court file by the person responsible for this task.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Interception of correspondence sent by electronic communications

Article 100-1

…operations are necessary. It shall include all the information needed to identify the link to be intercepted, the offence for which the interception is being carried out and the duration of the inter…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Examination of the application

Article 1221-1

…the juvenile court judge whether educational assistance proceedings have been opened and ask the latter to send him copies of documents from the case in progress, in accordance with the procedures def…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Examination of the application

Article 1220-1

The hearing of the person may take place at the seat of the court, at the place where the person usually resides, at the treatment or accommodation establishment or at any other appropriate place.The…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Calculation of total distributed income

Article 115

…of Article 210 A ; b) The transferring company still has at least one complete branch of activity after the completion of the contribution; c) This allocation, proportional to the partners' rights in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Calculation of total distributed income

Article 109

…lable to members, shareholders or unit holders and not deducted from profits. Taxable amounts are determined for each period used to calculate corporation tax by comparing the closing balance sheets f…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Calculation of total distributed income

Article 113

For the application of articles 109 and 112, the direct incorporation of profits into the capital is treated as an incorporation of reserves.

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