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French Consumer CodeIn force
New legislative part

Article liminaire

For the purposes of this code, the following definitions shall apply: 1° Consumer: any natural person who is acting for purposes that do not fall within the scope of his commercial, industrial, craft,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Deduction of withholding tax and tax credits

Article 199 ter C

…ax credit is credited to the taxpayer in the same amount. This claim is used to pay the income tax due for the three years following the year in respect of which it is established, then, if applicable…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Deduction of withholding tax and tax credits

Article 199 ter B

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Deduction of withholding tax and tax credits

Article 199 ter B bis

…dit for collaborative research defined in article 244 quater B bis is deducted from the income tax due by the taxpayer for the year during which the research expenses taken into account for the calcul…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Inspections

Article L513-23

…hareholders' meetings and shall be heard by the Board of Directors or the Executive Board at his request.The Controller, as well as his employees and experts, are bound by professional secrecy with re…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operations

Article L513-4

…Article L. 511-44. II. - Exposures to public entities include in particular: 1. Debt securities issued or fully guaranteed by one or more of the public entities referred to in 1 to 5 of I; 2. Claims…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the freezing of assets and the prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L562-1

…ts governed by Chapter II of Title III of Book I of the Insurance Code, as well as the surrender value of these contracts; d) Receivables; e) Financial instruments governed by Title I of Book II and t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-19

…stribution forecast are based on adequate, applicable and relevant actuarial and statistical techniques and are consistent with the methods used to calculate prudential technical provisions in accorda…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 2: Minimum capital requirement

Article R352-29

…an unacceptable level of risk if the insurance or reinsurance undertaking were authorised to continue its business;c) The linear function, referred to in II, used to calculate it is calibrated accord…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI: Tax levied for the French Guiana region

Article 1599 quinquies B

…extracted by the persons mentioned in I in the year preceding that in respect of which the tax is due. The rate per kilogram of gold extracted is set each year by order of the ministers responsible f…

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