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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Agreements between regional health agencies and health insurance organisations

Article R1434-17

The agreement complies with the multiannual contract of objectives and resources of the regional health agency provided for in article L. 1433-2 of this Code and the multiannual management contract of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-17

Any association recognised as being in the public interest, which has been duly registered for at least five years at the date of the events and which proposes by its articles of association to defend…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Tax fines

Article 1765

If one of the conditions laid down for the application, as the case may be, of articles L. 221-30, L. 221-31 and L. 221-32 or articles L. 221-32-1, L. 221-32-2 and L. 221-32-3 of the Monetary and Fina…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
8: Non-compliance with conditions governing tax benefits

Article 1739

Infringements of Article L. 221-35 of the Monetary and Financial Code are recorded in accordance with Article L. 221-36 of the same code and punishable by the fine provided for in the second paragraph…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
E: Miscellaneous measures

Article 1756

I. - In the event of safeguarding or judicial recovery or liquidation, the costs of proceedings and tax penalties incurred in respect of direct taxes and assimilated taxes, turnover taxes and assimila…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Opposition to duty and obstacles to tax control

Article 1735

I. - Failure to comply with the obligations of Article L. 96 A of the Book of Tax Procedures. The rate of the fine is reduced to 5% when the offender establishes that the State has not suffered any pr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Tax penalties

Article 1734

Refusal to provide the documents and information requested by the administration in the exercise of its right of disclosure or any behaviour that impedes disclosure will result in the application of a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Tax fines

Article 1762

Any infringement of the provisions of Article L. 111 of the Book of Tax Procedures, relating to tax disclosure, is punishable by a fine equal to the amount of the taxes disclosed.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Criminal penalties

Article 1751

1. (Repealed). 2. In all cases where a breach of the invoicing rules as provided for in articles L. 441-9 and L. 443-3 of the French Commercial Code (1), the offender's business may be sequestered unt…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Opposition to duty and obstacles to tax control

Article 1732

The implementation of the ex officio assessment procedure provided for in Article L. 74 of the tax procedures book entails:a. The application of a surcharge of 100% to the recalled duties or tax claim…

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