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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI ter : Determination of income realised by companies on the disposal of certain fixed-income securities

Article 238 septies F

In the event of the transfer of securities mentioned in article 118, at 6° and 7° of article 120 and to Article 1678 bis as well as treasury bills on formulas and entered on the balance sheet of a com…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Tattooing products

Article L5437-4

Legal entities declared criminally liable, under the conditions set out in Article 121-2 of the French Penal Code, for the offences defined in Article L. 5437-2 of this Code shall be liable, in additi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-4

Only operators meeting the conditions defined in this article may organise and conduct voluntary sales of movable property by public auction and electronic auctions.I.-If a natural person, the operato…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts

Article L232-4

In companies other than sociétés anonymes, the reports provided for in article L. 232-3 are drawn up by the managers, who send them to the statutory auditor, the works council and, where applicable, t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secondment contract.

Article L1251-44

Any clause prohibiting the user company from taking on the temporary employee at the end of his assignment is deemed unwritten.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Secondment contract.

Article L1251-42

When a temporary employment undertaking makes an employee available to a user undertaking, these undertakings shall conclude a written secondment contract, at the latest within two working days of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Counting of votes

Article D4233-15-4

If a postal vote has been organised, the envelopes used to cast the vote are counted before the count provided for in article D. 4233-15-3, as and when they are received, in the electoral register ref…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Resources and means

Article L1233-4

I.-The National Coordination Committee of the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion comprises: 1° Representatives of the Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine (National Agency for Urban Renew…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Reclassification of the contract.

Article L1251-40

When a user undertaking has recourse to an employee of a temporary employment undertaking in breach of the provisions of articles L. 1251-5 to L. 1251-7, L. 1251-10, L. 1251-11, L. 1251-12-1, L. 1251-…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Special arrangements applicable to distance sales of goods imported from third countries or territories

Article 298 sexdecies H

I.-A. The following may avail themselves of this special scheme: 1° Any taxable person established on the territory of the European Union carrying out distance selling of goods imported from third ter…

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