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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database

Article 706-56

…nalysis is requested from the technical and forensic police services or bodies mentioned in Article 157-2, there is no need to swear an oath and if the request is made by a judicial police officer or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-41-5

…to 17 and 24 to 26 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014; 3° This Title and Title III of this Book; 4° Any other legislative or regulatory provis…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1636 B undecies

…have instituted the tax for the removal of household waste in accordance with articles 1379-0 bis, 1520 and 1609 quater vote on the rate of this tax under the conditions set out in Article 1639 A.2.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R713-1-1

…s forwarded by the Prefect to the administrative authority referred to in II of article R. 713-1 by 15 July of the same year at the latest. IV. IV -In the cases provided for in IV of article R. 713-1,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 200 quater

…on, based on the dwelling's habitable surface area, for heating, domestic hot water and cooling, to 150 kilowatt-hours per square metre. In this case, the dwelling's tax credit will apply to the purch…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 decies C

…combustion engines to be installed in non-road mobile machinery, amending Regulations (EU) No 1024/2012 and (EU) No 167/2013 and amending and repealing Directive 97/68/EC. 4° A sum equal to 20% of th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 200 quaterdecies

…7,500 € are respectively increased to 7,500 € for a single, widowed or divorced disabled person and 15,000 € for a couple subject to joint taxation when one of their members is disabled.V. - The tax c…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L370-4

…he same article. For the implementation of these procedures, the provisions of IV of Article L. 612-15 and of the last paragraph of Article L. 612-43 and, where applicable, of Article L. 612-28 of the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 244 quater C

…ax or natural persons participating in the operation within the meaning of 1° bis of I of l'article 156. V. - The bodies responsible for collecting the social security contributions due for employing…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative composition

Article R232-89

…articles L. 232-9, L. 232-9-1, L. 232-9-2, L. 232-9-3, L. 232-10, L. 232-10-3, L. 232-10-4, L. 232-15-1 or L. 232-17 which it is presumed have been breached, as well as the facts and evidence on whic…

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