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Showing 521530 of 61244 articles for Art. L 225-197-1 · CNCC EJ 2019-57

French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Circulation, possession and trade in tobacco products

Article 575 L

Tobacco sales clerks found to have adulterated manufactured tobaccos by adding or mixing heterogeneous materials shall be dismissed, without prejudice to the penalties laid down in this Code for breac…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 10: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article L5211-57

Decisions by the council of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system, the effects of which affect only one of the member municipalities, may only be taken after o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Expertise

Article L7343-57

The Labour Relations Authority for Employment Platforms assesses the usefulness of the expertise requested, in particular with regard to the subject of the negotiations and the complexity of the issue…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning undertakings subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-57-3

In the absence of a collective agreement or in the event of an agreement not covering all of the points mentioned in 1° to 5° of article L. 1233-24-2, the administrative authority shall approve the do…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 57-1

Officers of the judicial police or, under their responsibility, officers of the judicial police may, in the course of a search carried out under the conditions provided for in this code, access via a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning undertakings subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-57-8

The administrative authority competent to take the homologation or validation decision mentioned in article L. 1233-57-1 is that of the place where the company or establishment concerned by the collec…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: End of the research period

Article L1233-57-21

The actions undertaken by the employer under the obligation to find a buyer are taken into account in the revitalisation agreement concluded between the company and the administrative authority pursua…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Decisions that may be challenged and conditions of appeal

Article 571-1

The withdrawal of the appeal is recorded by order of the President of the Criminal Division.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Decisions that may be challenged and conditions of appeal

Article 574-1

The Criminal Division hearing an appeal against the judgment committing the offender to trial or ordering that the offender be referred to the Criminal Court must rule within three months of receipt o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 57

For the purposes of calculating the income tax due by companies that are dependent on or that control companies located outside France, profits indirectly transferred to the latter, either by increasi…

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