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

Article 1693 ter A

…ble person who is a member of the group in respect of a period prior to the entry into force of the option provided for in Article 1693 ter may not be carried forward on a return whose elements are ta…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Acquisition of French nationality by birth and residence in France

Article 21-10

…ce to diplomatic agents and career consuls of foreign nationality. However, these children have the option of voluntarily acquiring French nationality in accordance with the provisions of article 21-1…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 20-5

…nce to diplomatic agents or career consuls of foreign nationality. However, these children have the option of voluntarily acquiring French nationality in accordance with the provisions of article 21-1…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Allocation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-57

Production companies have the option of investing the sums entered in their automatic audiovisual production account for the production and preparation of audiovisual works that belong to one of the f…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Allocation of sums held in the automatic video editing account

Article 611-16

Videogram publishers have the option of investing the sums entered in their automatic video publishing account in order to contribute to the online distribution of cinematographic works under the cond…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article R214-209

…enabling it to ensure that members of the company savings plan are offered at least one investment option that complies with the conditions set out in the second paragraph of article L. 3332-17 of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Issuing and enforcing financial penalties pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 24 February 2005

Article D48-14

…the financial penalty on the territory of the Republic. However, the Public Prosecutor resumes the option of enforcing the financial penalty as soon as the executing State informs him of the non-reco…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 7 : Nature of the tests leading to the award of the three-degree state diploma for sports instructors at the end of a modular training course

Article A212-143

…d safety skills, enabling them to take part in supervising the activity corresponding to the chosen option. It also provides an opportunity to identify training needs and to validate any prior learnin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Direct marketing of banking and financial services.

Article D341-4

…ters must provide the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution with a copy of the letter of option sent to the tax department in accordance with Article 171 AR of Annex II to the General Tax C…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-15

…penditure in the budget and proposes, if appropriate, the creation of resources or the reduction of optional expenditure intended to cover the compulsory expenditure. The representative of the State i…

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