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Showing 64616470 of 17089 articles for Art. US–France Estate & Gift Tax Protocol

French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions on the valuation of the prudential balance sheet

Article R351-1

…ing prudential assets and liabilities relating to employee benefits, share-based payments, deferred tax and forward financial instruments.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Liquidation and partition of the community.

Article 1467

…entered the community, if it exists in kind, or property that has been subrogated to it. The joint estate, both active and passive, is then liquidated.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section I: Guardianship and succession matters.

Article ANNEXE, art. 14-1

…isions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to protective measures taken after the opening of an estate are applicable in the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle, in conjunction with the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title XIV: Trusts

Article 2030

…r.When it terminates through the death of the settlor, the trust patrimony reverts ipso jure to the estate.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Obligations.

Article R228-85

The agent responsible for representing the estate in the case provided for in Article L. 228-85 is appointed by the president of the commercial court ruling on a request. It produces the claim of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-69

…the categories referred to in Article R. 15-33-68 shall be subject to a procedure laid down in the protocol provided for in Article R. 15-33-72. This provides that the information requested by the ju…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Professional acts.

Article R4311-2

…in clinical monitoring and the application of medical prescriptions contained, where applicable, in protocols drawn up on the initiative of the prescribing doctor(s); 5° Participating in the preventio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Economic concentration.

Article L430-2

…rticle L. 430-1, when the following three conditions are met:the total worldwide turnover excluding tax of all the undertakings or groups of natural or legal persons party to the concentration exceeds…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Characteristics and approval of computerised ticketing systems

Article D212-79

…e equipped with devices that allow agents of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée and tax agents responsible for control to check, at any time, that the use of these systems complies wit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single chapter: Financing of vocational training

Article L6131-4

…rovisions of the same article. II.The contributions deducted from the balance of the apprenticeship tax mentioned in II of article L. 6241-2 are, with the exception of the direct payments mentioned in…

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