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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: European UCITS management companies

Article L532-20-1

…cordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 in mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte and Saint-Martin.The pro…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article L321-15

…an Economic Area who organises the sale has not made the declaration provided for in Article L. 321-24;3° Or if the person running the sale does not meet the conditions set out in Article L. 321-4 or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Regional hospitals

Article D6141-15

…éans ;22° Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris ;23° Centre hospitalier régional de Pointe-à-Pitre ;24° Centre hospitalier régional de Poitiers ;25° Centre hospitalier régional de Reims ;26° Centre ho…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Internal taxes.

Article 266 sexies

…b) The waste treated falls into the following categories listed in the Annex to Commission Decision 2000/532/EC of 3 May 2000 replacing Decision 94/3/EC establishing a list of wastes pursuant to Artic…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1 quinquies : Capital gains realised on contributions to companies or restructuring of professional non-trading companies

Article 151 octies

…remunerating the contribution or of the bare ownership of these rights, the deferral of taxation is maintained if the beneficiary of the transfer undertakes to pay the capital gains tax on the date on…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to the analysis of resolvability

Article L613-43

…asis of Article 31 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 ;2° Refer the matter to the European Banking Authority on the basis of Article 19 o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions specific to credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and central counterparties

Article L613-32

…ce with Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010. III - The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may ask the competent a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financial allocations paid by France Compétences

Article R6123-25

…o it under 2°, 3° and 4° of I of Article L. 6131-1, less the payment referred to in Article R. 6123-24, and determines the amount of the various allocations as follows:1° Between 5% and 35% to the Cai…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-6

…compensation rate of 15.482% is applicable to eligible investment expenditure incurred from 1 April 2000 by communities of communes, communities of towns and conurbation communities.The flat-rate comp…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L421-1

…a land motor vehicle and containing various civil provisions and in Article 1 of Law no. 51-695 of 24 May 1951 relating to increases in certain life annuities and pensions, in respect of certified su…

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