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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 7: General training common to mountain sports teaching, supervision and training professions

Article A212-169

General training common to the teaching, supervision and training professions in mountain sports is provided by the National Mountain Sports School. The National Mountain Sports School may delegate th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3c: Levy on dividends

Article 1671 C

The levy referred to in article 117 quater is paid to the Treasury within the first fifteen days of the month following that in which the income is paid and subject to the same penalties as the withho…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Electronic voting procedures

Article R2314-16

The enrolment list is only accessible to members of the polling station and for the purposes of monitoring the voting process. No partial results are accessible during the voting process. However, if…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Departmental committee for direct taxes and turnover taxes

Article 1651 A

I. - For the determination of industrial and commercial profit, and subject to the provisions of II the taxpayers' representatives are appointed by the competent chambers of commerce and industry or c…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Acquisition of Trade Mark Rights

Article R712-16

When an opposition is referred to it, the National Institute of Industrial Property shall observe and observe itself the principle of contradiction. It may not base its decision on pleas, explanations…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Modification of the jurisdiction of commercial courts following a new delimitation of administrative or judicial districts and the transfer of the registry of mixed commercial courts.

Article R743-169

The indemnities that may be due, as a result of the changes in jurisdictions provided for in Article R. 743-158, between the clerks of the commercial courts and the former clerks of the commercial cou…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Powers of the Lyon Metropolitan Area

Article L3641-8

The metropolis of Lyon is automatically substituted, for the competences set out in articles L. 3641-1 et L. 3641-2, to the syndicat de communes or the syndicat mixte whose perimeter is identical to i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R5134-162

I.-The regional guidance plan defines the territorial strategy for implementing jobs with a future, in particular : 1° The priority industries and sectors of activity for the deployment of jobs with a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Tax base

Article 1635 quater K

Public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status with jurisdiction over a local town planning plan or a land use plan and the communes may, by a decision taken under the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Tax base

Article 1635 quater I

I.-A 50% allowance is applied to the values mentioned in 1° of Article 1635 quater H for: 1° Residential and accommodation premises and their annexes mentioned in Articles 278 sexies and 296 ter and,…

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