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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment institutions

Article L775-16

…018-700 of 3 August 2018 L. 522-4 Order no. 2013-544 of 27 June 2013 L. 522-5 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 522-6 to L. 522-7-1 Order no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 522-8 Act no. 2018-700 o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Registration and publicity.

Article R4381-39

…ed in the company's application for registration, in accordance with the provisions of B of article 15 of the same decree.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L4331-2-1

…made as soon as the amount of taxes and charges provided for in the current year's budget is known.During the year, one or more twelfths may be paid in advance of the normal rate if the region's avai…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Negotiable debt securities

Article L213-1

Negotiable debt securities are financial instruments issued at the issuer's discretion, negotiable on a trading platform referred to in Article L. 420-1 or over-the-counter, each of which represents a…

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In force

Article Annexe 9-5

JURISDICTION WITH JURISDICTION IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE L. 420-7, PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO PERSONS WHO ARE TRADERS OR CRAFTSMEN SIEGE DES TRIBUNAUX de commerce RESSORT Paris. Resort of the Saint-Pier…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: General provisions

Article 679

…egistration which are voluntarily submitted to this formality; 4° Deeds referred to in l'article 37 du décret n° 55-22 du 4 janvier 1955 modifié qui sont présentés volontairement à la formalité de la…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
j: Contributions or premiums paid to people's pension savings plans or under certain compulsory or optional supplementary pension schemes or in respect of supplementary guarantees under pension savings plans.

Article 163 quatervicies

I. - 1. - Contributions or premiums paid by each member of the tax household are deductible from overall net income, subject to the conditions and limits mentioned in 2:a) to the popular retirement sa…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article L223-30

…s to the Articles of Association of limited liability companies formed after the publication of the loi n° 2005-882 du 2 août 2005 en faveur des petites et moyennes entreprises, the General Meeting ma…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific rules relating to third-country investment firms

Article D532-39

I. - Where, pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 47 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of 15 May 2014, a branch authorised in France of a third-country firm benefiting from an equivalence decision provided…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article D773-22

…hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 533-2-1n° 2007-904 of 15 May 2007D. 533-3 to D. 533-5No. 2017-1324 of 6 September 2017D. 533-11 with the ex…

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