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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Work carried out using work equipment

Article R4323-63

Ladders, stepladders and steps may not be used as workstations. However, such equipment may be used where it is technically impossible to use equipment for the collective protection of workers, or whe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 5: Financial provisions

Article L5216-8-1

…nity as a result of the extension from fifteen to twenty-five years of the exemptions from property tax on built properties provided for in articles 1384 A, 1384 C and 1384 D of the General Tax Code a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Delegation of powers

Article R1111-1-1

…pplicant territorial authority or public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system, within one year of the transmission of its request. After agreement on its content has b…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Publicity of budgets and accounts

Article R4313-2

…nt is the total population, municipal and counted separately, as it results from the last known census on the date of production of the budget documents; 2° Actual operating expenditure means all expe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L5731-2

I. - The metropolitan cluster groups together public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status provided that one of them has more than 100,000 inhabitants.By way of derog…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Single chapter

Article L5741-4

When a mixed syndicate composed exclusively of public establishments of intercommunal cooperation with their own tax status fulfils the conditions set out in I of article L. 5741-1, it may be transfor…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: List of essential information to be provided by the State representative (R).

Article D1612-5

…il: 1° A statement indicating the forecast amount of the net bases of each of the four direct local taxes chargeable to the department, the net tax rates adopted by the department the previous year, t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Conditions of application of Books I to VI in overseas France

Article R711-5

…ocally applicable provisions having the same purpose;2° References to the provisions of the General Tax Code, the Book of Tax Procedures, the Customs Code and those relating to tax and customs adminis…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transparency

Article R3512-1-2

…irms for influencing activities or the representation of interests: a) The total annual amount, all taxes included, rounded to the nearest euro, of purchases of missions or services per consultancy co…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Raw materials for pharmaceutical use.

Article L5138-3-1

For the manufacture of medicinal products for veterinary use, the pharmaceutical establishments mentioned in article L. 5142-1, veterinarians, dispensing pharmacies and persons authorised to prepare s…

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