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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-2

…Board elected by the employees are determined in accordance with the provisions of articles L. 225-28, L. 225-29, first paragraph, and L. 225-30 to L. 225-34 of the Commercial Code.The Articles of As…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Partial access to the activities of voluntary sale of movable property by public auction by nationals of Member States of the European Union and States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article R321-69

The Conseil des maisons de vente will issue a reasoned decision at the latest within three months of the presentation of the complete file by the interested party. The decision is notified by any mean…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1a: Financing of the insurance allowance

Article D5422-4

…ntioned bodies, manage, as a processor, the processing under the conditions provided for in Article 28 of the aforementioned Regulation. II. - The personal data and information likely to be recorded i…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Information mentioned in the contract

Article R312-10

The credit agreement provided for in Article L. 312-28 is drawn up in characters no smaller than eight-point type. It shall include clearly and legibly, in the order specified below: 1° The identity a…

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

Article L1615-1

…orities and their groupings on their investment expenditure as well as on their expenditure for: 1° Maintenance of public buildings and roads; 2° The maintenance of networks paid for from 1 January 20…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Electronic transmission of budget documents to the State representative

Article D1612-15-1

…bitants, the obligation to transmit by electronic means applies to budget documents relating to the 2020 financial year.The population to be taken into account for the application of this article is t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
11: Business value added tax

Article 1679 septies

Companies whose business value added contribution for the year preceding the year of taxation exceeds €1,500 must pay:- no later than 15 June of the year of taxation, a first instalment equal to 50% o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Creation.

Article L5215-1

…majority conditions provided for in the first paragraph of II of article L. 5211-5 before 1 January 2020.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant.

Article L2334-13

A development grant is instituted, comprising a grant for the benefit of groups of communes, a national equalisation grant, an urban solidarity and social cohesion grant, a rural solidarity grant, a s…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
0I: Definition of overall net income

Article 1 A

A single annual personal income tax known as income tax is established. This tax is levied on the taxpayer's overall net income determined in accordance with the provisions of articles 156 to 168.This…

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