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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: State aid and agreements.

Article R5313-6

…ect and the job centre. This agreement specifies the objectives to be achieved, the resources to be used, the duration of the agreement and the budget of the job centre, as well as the amount and cond…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Community assets

Article 1404

…eir nature, even if they were acquired during the marriage, are clothing and linen for the personal use of one of the spouses, actions for compensation for bodily or moral injury, non-transferable deb…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Candidatures of professional employers' organisations

Article R2152-13

…candidacy for each of the branches in which it is a candidate. By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, in the branches covering exclusively the agricultural activities mentioned in 1° to 4°…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Miscellaneous duties and taxes.

Article 285 ter

A tax is introduced for the benefit of the regions of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte and Réunion, payable by public air transport companies. It is added to the price charged to passeng…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Eligibility criteria.

Article R5423-2

…lowance as well as the other resources of the person concerned and, where applicable, his or her spouse, partner in a civil solidarity pact or cohabiting partner, as they must be declared to the tax a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Dotation de soutien à l'investissement des départements (Departmental investment support grant)

Article L3334-10

…d in the form of regional envelopes and is made up of the sum of two fractions: 1° Up to 77% of the amount of the allocation after deduction of the quotas provided for in Ia, the first fraction is cal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1 - Organisation of the fund for financing and managing the individual training rights of local elected representatives

Article R1621-6

…ions and local authorities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status, in particular in the context of the use of the dematerialised service mentioned in Artic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Calculation of the special profit-sharing reserve.

Article D3324-1

The salaries to be used to calculate the amount of the special employee profit-sharing reserve referred to in Article L. 3324-1 are the income from employment as taken into account to determine the ba…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Common provisions

Article 223-20

The amount of aid is determined according to the financial investment made by the distribution company, which takes the form of : 1° By the payment to production companies of advances granted in respe…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Furnishings

Article 530

Any annuity established in perpetuity for the price of the sale of real estate, or as a condition of the transfer for valuable consideration or free of charge of real estate, is essentially redeemable…

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