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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Xa: Health charges on fishery and aquaculture products

Article 302 bis WB

…of the Council of the European Union. A joint order of the Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry, the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for the Budget sets the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter XX: Levies on betting and gaming

Article 302 bis ZH

…t out in I of Article 137 of the aforementioned Law no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 and by persons who must be subject, as online sports betting operators, to the authorisation mentioned in Article 21 of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter XX: Levies on betting and gaming

Article 302 bis ZL

…ned in Article 302 bis ZO according to the following procedures:1° For those liable for value added tax subject to the normal actual taxation regime provided for in Article 287(2), on the annex to the…

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Chapter XX: Levies on betting and gaming

Article 302 bis ZM

…ame procedures and subject to the same penalties, guarantees, securities and privileges as turnover taxes. Claims are presented, investigated and judged according to the rules applicable to these same…

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Chapter XX: Levies on betting and gaming

Article 302 bis ZN

…ce is liable for one of the levies mentioned in articles 302 bis ZG, 302 bis ZH and 302 bis ZI, it must have a representative established in France accredited by the tax authorities, who undertakes to…

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3°: Traffic

Article 307

With the exception of stills belonging to itinerant hirers, apparatus or parts of apparatus suitable for the distillation, manufacture or pressing of eaux-de-vie or spirits may only circulate anywhere…

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4°: Implementation measures

Article 342

The conditions for the layout of distilleries, the measures to ensure that distillers are taken in charge and their obligations, in particular those resulting from articles L. 26 and L. 32 du livre de…

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VI: Special provisions

Article 518

The provisions of this chapter do not preclude the special provisions laid down in respect of alcohol, wine, cider, perry and mead by the texts in force, with regard to Corsica, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin an…

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III: Common obligations

Article 535

I. - Manufacturers, merchants and persons treated as such and guarantee commission agents must take to the guarantee office to which they belong or to an approved inspection body the works which must…

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III: Circulation, possession and trade in tobacco products

Article 575 J

It is forbidden for anyone to possess utensils, machines or mechanical devices such as mills, graters, tobacco choppers, spinning wheels, scaferlati machines, carrot presses and others of any form wha…

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