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Showing 69816990 of 53863 articles for Art. Rép. Cherki: AN 24-1-2017 n° 94515

French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 422-15

…s of the project presented so require, the reading committee or commission may postpone its opinion and, where appropriate, propose to the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image anim…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Radiation.

Article R123-131

Any legal entity is automatically struck off the register, after a notice of its dissolution has been entered in the register, at the end of the period set by the Articles of Association for the durat…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Compensation for victims of acts of terrorism and other offences.

Article L422-1-1

The guarantee fund referred to in article L. 422-1 may request any administration or service of the State or public authorities, any social security organisation, any organisation managing social bene…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Permanent exemptions

Article 15

…not subject to income tax.This exemption also applies to premises included in agricultural holdings and allocated to the dwellings of the owner-managers.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Taxation of income and capital gains in the event of transfer of domicile outside France

Article 167

1. A taxpayer domiciled in France who transfers his residence abroad is liable to income tax on the income he has disposed of during the year of his departure up to the date of his departure, on the i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-12

The statutory auditors and, within sociétés de commissaires aux comptes, the persons performing the duties of statutory auditor mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 822-9 may not be appointe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 11: Medical care and rehabilitation activities

Article R6123-125-1

The holder of an authorisation referred to in Article R. 6123-121, with the exception of an authorisation bearing the wording "multi-purpose", provides the following services in its area of competence…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Costs of proceedings.

Article L663-1-1

Where precautionary measures ordered pursuant to articles L. 621-2, L. 631-10-1 and L. 651-4 relate to assets whose conservation or holding generates costs or which are likely to deteriorate, the offi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-123-10

…ication for authorisation to import a proprietary veterinary medicinal product in parallel is accompanied by a dossier comprising :1° For each presentation, a sample of the proprietary medicinal produ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to portfolio management companies

Article D533-16-1

I.-This article applies to entities subject to Article L. 533-22-1. For the credit institutions and investment firms mentioned in Article L. 511-4-3, this article applies to portfolio management activ…

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