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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions specific to bariatric surgery

Article R6123-209

Authorisation under the "bariatric surgery" modality referred to in 3° of the I of article R. 6123-202 may only be granted if the holder has authorisation under the "surgery on adult patients" modalit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 207

1. The following are exempt from corporation tax:1° (provisions no longer applicable);1° bis. Professional trade unions, whatever their legal form, and their unions for their activities relating to th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208

Sont également exonérés de l'impôt sous réserve des dispositions de l'article 208 A : 1° (Abrogé à compter du 1er janvier 1993) ; 1° bis-Les sociétés d'investissement qui sont régies par les articles…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 206

1. Subject to the provisions of Articles 8 ter, 239 bis AA, 239 bis AB and 1655 ter, sociétés anonymes, sociétés en commandite par actions, sociétés à responsabilité limitée that have not opted for th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 199 unvicies

1. Taxpayers domiciled in France within the meaning of Article 4 B benefit from a tax reduction in respect of cash subscriptions, made between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2023, to the initial capit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 209

I. - Subject to the provisions of this section, profits liable to corporation tax shall be determined in accordance with the rules laid down in Articles 34 to 45,53 A to 57,108 to 117,237 ter A et 302…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 20

A child who is French by virtue of the provisions of this Chapter shall be deemed to have been French from birth, even if the existence of the conditions required by law for the attribution of French…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title XIV: Trusts

Article 2015

Only the credit institutions mentioned in I of Article L. 511-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code, the institutions and services listed in Article L. 518-1 of the same code, the investment firms ment…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article 20

Subject to the provisions of article 20-1, the following are judicial police officers: 1° Members of the national gendarmerie, other than volunteers, who do not have the status of judicial police offi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: La Monnaie de Paris

Article R121-20

The establishment is subject to economic and financial control under the conditions laid down by decree no. 53-707 of 9 August 1953 relating to State control of national public companies and certain b…

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