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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-7-1

I. - When, pursuant to the last paragraph of Article R. 441-21, the commitments of the insurance undertaking under an agreement are no longer represented in at least an equivalent manner by the assets…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Tax intended to finance sickness, invalidity and maternity insurance benefits under the social protection scheme for non-salaried farmers

Article 1613 ter

…oportion equal to the growth rate of the consumer price index excluding tobacco for the year before last. These amounts are expressed with two figures after the decimal point, the second figure being…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1763 C

…not comply with the obligations established in 2 bis of VI of Article 199 terdecies-0 A and in the last paragraph of 1 of III of Article 885-0 V bis in the wording in force on 31 December 2017, the f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK VII: Commercial jurisdictions and the organisation of commerce.

Article Annexe II

…article R. 762-4) (4):Event details in figures(Estimates for new events, certified figures for the last session)Net surface area (in square metres) (3) (4) :Attendance (3) :Number of exhibitors (3) (…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L132-15

…e liquidator. This statement of accounts must show the number of copies of the works sold since the last statement of accounts was drawn up, the amount of royalties due to the author in respect of the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Publication of information, transparency and comparison of tenders

Article L224-42-4

…d unambiguous language; 5° Provide accurate and up-to-date information and indicate the date of the last update; 6° Be open to any provider of Internet access services or publicly available interperso…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Intervention by the guardianship judge

Article 387-5

…vices, at the end of his mission, a final account of the operations that have taken place since the last annual account was drawn up.The director of the judicial registry services may be assisted in h…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 41-4

…requested or decided within six months of the classification decision or the decision by which the last court seised has exhausted its jurisdiction, the objects not returned become the property of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 99

…atter directly to the president of the investigating chamber, who shall rule in accordance with the last three paragraphs of Article 186-1. He may also, with the agreement of the public prosecutor, de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Voluntary appearance and summons

Article 392-1

…rect summons. This deposit guarantees payment of the civil fine that may be imposed pursuant to the last paragraph.Where the civil party is a profit-making legal entity, it must, on pain of non-admiss…

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