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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The National Advisory Commission on Natural Disasters

Article D125-2-1

…5° Two representatives of companies, including one representing small and medium-sized enterprises; 16° Two persons qualified in the commission's area of expertise. The members of the commission menti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Investigation assistants

Article 21-3

…ovisions declared unconstitutional by Constitutional Council Decision no. 2022-846 DC of 19 January 2023]. In the event of any difficulty encountered in the performance of these duties, in particular…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Transitional measures

Article R352-27

…October 2014, where these shares were acquired directly by the undertaking on or before 1 January 2016, or indirectly where the undertaking made an investment on or before 1 January 2016 in shares in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-5

…interrupted or postponed, support will only be granted if filming resumes no later than 30th April 2023.Exceptionally, by decision of the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image anim…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Tax base

Article 1388 bis

…cation of the allowance.The allowance applies to tax assessments drawn up in respect of the years 2016 to 2023, from the year following that of the signing of the city contract or, if later, that of t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°-0 bis: Priority urban policy districts

Article 1383 C ter

…h its own tax system decides otherwise, in accordance with the conditions laid down in I of Article 1639 A bis, properties located in the priority urban policy neighbourhoods defined in article 5 of L…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Agents de police municipale, gardes champêtres, agents de surveillance de Paris and agents de la ville de Paris chargé d'un service de police (municipal police officers, rural wardens, Paris surveillance officers and Paris city police officers)

Article R15-33-29-3

…e of a police force, may, pursuant to the provisions of the articles L. 2212-5, L. 2213-18, L. 2512-16-1 and L. 2512-16 du code général des collectivités territoriales, record by official report when…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for admission to the profession

Article L773-3

…158 of 20 February 2014 L. 511-15 Order no. 2021-796 of 23 June 2021 L. 511-15-1 Ordinance no. 2020-1635 of 21 December 2020 L. 511-16 and L. 511-17 with the exception of its first paragraph Order no.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: La Monnaie de Paris

Article L121-4

…83-634 of 13 July 1983 on the rights and obligations of civil servants and chapter II of law no. 84-16 of 11 January 1984 on statutory provisions relating to the State civil service, technical civil s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Mobilisation of mortgage and similar claims

Article L313-42

…Article L. 511-44 and which is not included in the scope of consolidation defined in Article L. 233-16 of the Commercial Code of the credit institution or finance company issuing the promissory note.…

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