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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Verification of claims.

Article R624-2

The list of claims containing the information provided for in article L. 622-25 and in article R. 622-23 together with the proposals of the mandataire judiciaire and the observations of the debtor, wi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Taxes levied for the benefit of the Ile-de-France region

Article 1599 quater C

…on lease, emphyteutic lessee or holder of an authorisation for temporary occupation of the public domain constituting a right in rem who, on 1st January of the tax year, has a taxable surface area.III…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 722-13

…e 722-11 relating to series or collections of audiovisual works, direct allocations are granted for 25% of the total duration of these series and collections.However, when production companies and dis…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exceptional aid to help people return to work in 2021

Article 919-33

…annual distribution programme or structural aid, as provided for in articles 223-5, 223-11 and 223-25, during 2021;4° Have distributed cinematographic works which have achieved, cumulatively, a numbe…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Tax fines

Article 1764

…residential use mentioned in II of Article 238 octies A is liable for a fine in an amount equal to 25% of the transfer value of the elevation right.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-26

The accumulated result defined in article D. 4425-25 is allocated, when it is a surplus: 1° As a priority, to reserves to cover the financing requirement of the investment section arising at the close…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Award conditions

Article R5424-72

…exception of income declared in respect of the self-employed activity mentioned in article L. 5424-25, the insurance allowance and the specific solidarity allowance, and before deduction of the vario…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Delegated federations

Article L131-16

The delegated federations lay down : 1° The technical rules specific to their discipline as well as the rules intended to control their application and sanction their non-respect by the participants i…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Ia: Turnover taxes and similar miscellaneous taxes

Article 1609 tricies

…venue is multiplied by the ratio between, on the one hand, the amount of bets placed on the game in mainland France and the overseas departments and, on the other hand, the total amount of bets placed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Budgets and accounts

Article L4425-23

…ce policies available to the territorial collectivity of Corsica established by loi n° 91-428 du 13 mai 1991 portant statut de la collectivité territoriale de Corse et les départements de la Corse-du-…

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