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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-5

…n additional or different work. The statutory auditor may also decide to carry out additional work. 13. These changes and the reasons for them are recorded in the statutory auditor's file. Communicati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2

…e II of this Book, including branches of the payment institutions mentioned in II of Article L. 522-13; 1° ter Electronic money institutions governed by Chapter VI of Title II of this Book, including…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Life insurance and capitalisation operations

Article A132-11

…equal to 85% of the balance of a financial account containing the items provided for in Article A. 132-13. The profit-sharing account also includes the sums corresponding to the "ceded reinsurance ba…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 209-0 B

…eboat or time chartered, or are taken on hire under the conditions provided for in 1 of Article L. 313-7 of the Monetary and Financial Code and as part of leasing transactions with a purchase option;c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AH

…g Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Directive 2005/60/ EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directive 2006/70/ EC, are…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-1

…nts in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 ;- of Article 36 of Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 June 2019 concerning jurisdict…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Biomedicine

Article L1418-1

…e the authorisations provided for in :a) Articles L. 2141-9 and L. 2141-11-1;b) VIII of article L. 2131-1, the penultimate paragraph of article L. 2131-4 and articles L. 2131-4-1, L. 2151-5, L. 2151-8…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Rates

Article 279

…vices for household waste and other waste that the local authorities referred to in Article L. 2224-13 of the General Local Authorities Code may, in view of their characteristics and the quantities pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Discharge of liabilities.

Article L643-11

…erritorial proceedings within the meaning of paragraph 2 of Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings or within the meaning of paragraph 2 of Article 3…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES GOVERNED BY ARTICLE 73 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND FOR SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON

Article R761-5

…e replaced by the words: "the representative of the association" and the last paragraph is deleted. 13° In Article R. 753-4, the words: "by the French Office for Immigration and Integration" are repla…

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