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Showing 54215430 of 63920 articles for Art. 1° et 2°

French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Rates

Article 278 sexies

I.-For the application of this article: 1° Social rental housing means housing to which personalised housing assistance applies in accordance with 3° or 5° of Article L. 831-1 of the Construction and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Commencement of employment, management, remuneration and benefits

Article R6153-24-2

…trade union organisations mentioned in Article R. 6153-24-1 may, with the authorisation of the competent director general of the regional health agency, complete their training period in excess of th…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Management posts

Article R1432-68

…agement posts in the regional health agencies are pensionable for the civil servants occupying them:1° Director-General ;2° Directors, including departmental delegation directors.These posts are divid…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Pledging of securities accounts and securities

Article D211-12

…dge of the pledged account or securities provided for in IV and V of article L. 211-20 is realised: 1° For sums in any currency, directly by transfer of full ownership to the pledgee; 2° For French or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Undertakings for collective real estate investment.

Article R214-109

…1-38 under the conditions defined in that same article, guarantees relating to joint and several sureties or first demand guarantees.The undertaking for collective investment in real estate may only r…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1840 W ter

1. Inaccuracies in the declarations provided for in 4° of article 1605 bis will result in a fine of €150. 2. Omissions or inaccuracies in the declarations provided for in 5° and 6° of Article 1605 ter…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Certification and publication of the accounts of trade unions and professional organisations

Article L2135-1

…n article L. 123-12 of the Commercial Code. Where their annual resources do not exceed a threshold set by decree, they may adopt a simplified presentation of their accounts with the option of recordin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Administrative penalties.

Article L1324-1 A

…3 and L. 1322-4 or of the regulations and individual decisions taken for their application, the competent administrative authority gives formal notice to the person responsible for the production or d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2a: Judicial public interest agreements

Article R15-33-60-4

At the end of the hearing referred to in the ninth paragraph of Article 41-1-2, the order of the president of the court is immediately notified to the legal representatives of the legal entity and, wh…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Storage receipts

Article R522-24-2

…of Article L. 522-37-1, the operating rules for the register provided for in the previous article set out the information to be sent by general shops to the platform manager to enable the latter to c…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
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