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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Contractual tax exemptions and approvals

Article 1649 octies

All contracts, agreements or conventions entered into by public administrations and providing for the exemption of taxes, duties or levies collected by the State on its own behalf or on behalf of publ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 1694 bis

…A pay the taxes covered by this scheme are determined under the conditions provided for in article L. 171-1 of the code of taxes on goods and services.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 1693 quater

…f Article 287 pay this tax by means of two instalments paid during the year in which it becomes due and at least equal to half the amount due in respect of the previous year. The first instalment is p…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 5: Notifications and copies of decisions

Article 1180-16

Any decision of the judge is notified, at the registry's behest, to the applicant, the parents and, where applicable, the ad hoc administrator.A minor who has reached the age of sixteen is notified of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Technical and financial profit-sharing

Article A132-16

…provisions or transferred, in whole or in part, to the provision for bonuses referred to in article R. 343-3. Amounts transferred to the latter provision are allocated to the mathematical reserve or p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Biological analyses and screening tests.

Article D1221-16

Blood and its components may only be transferred to an educational establishment or vocational training organisation for teaching purposes, to the exclusion of any administration to humans, and on con…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Mobile emergency and resuscitation unit

Article D6124-16

…r : 1° A room equipped with telecommunications allowing it to be in permanent contact with the SAMU and its own intervention teams; 2° When it has the means of medical transport mentioned in article D…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Legal status of medical devices.

Article L5211-6

The procedures for applying this Title, and in particular: 1° The procedures for filing and updating the declarations provided for in Article L. 5211-3-1 ; 2° The procedures for issuing medical device…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Polling station

Article R2122-60

…tems have been sealed, that they are working properly, that the vote counter has been reset to zero and that the electronic ballot boxes are empty.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
section 2: Contracts concluded between a performer and a videogram producer

Article L212-6

The provisions of article L. 762-2 of the French Labour Code only apply to that part of the remuneration paid under the contract that exceeds the bases set by the collective agreement or specific agre…

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