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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Appeal procedures

Article R621-46

…incidental appeal, as provided for in the second sentence of the third paragraph of Article L. 621-30, within two months of the AMF being notified of the appeal lodged by the sanctioned person. The a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Registration

Article A822-1

…t to the head office of the regional company of statutory auditors of their domicile, between 1 and 30 January, a file comprising: 1° All official documents proving their identity and nationality; 2°…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 163 bis G

…e aforementioned net gain is taxed under the conditions set out in article 150-0 A and at a rate of 30% when the beneficiary has been working or, where applicable, has held office in the company in wh…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIIa: Taxes levied for the benefit of communities of communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation

Article 1609 quinquies C

…t from the compensation provided for in IV bis of article 6 of the 1987 finance law (no. 86-1317 of 30 December 1986), in place of their member municipalities, for losses of business property tax base…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1640 B

…ng to the exemptions and reductions provided for in I of 5.3.2 of article 2 of law no. 2009-1673 of 30 December 2009 of finance for 2010 and by applying the reference communal and inter-communal rates…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV: Procedure applicable to organised crime and delinquency and to felonies

Article 706-73-1

…1 du même code et délit d'évasion commis en bande organisée prévu au second alinéa de l'article 434-30 dudit code ;2° Délits de dissimulation d'activités ou de salariés, de recours aux services d'une…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General procedural rules

Article R331-24

…fusal.IV.-When the matter is referred to the authority pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 331-30, the applicant must also prove that he has asked the rightholder who uses the technological prote…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Creation

Article L5211-5-1 A

…stablishments of inter-municipal cooperation. If the administrative account has not been adopted by 30 June of the year following the sharing, the representative of the State in the department adopts…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L744-1

…il of 23 July 2014 and Regulation (EU) No 2022/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 are replaced by references to Articles L. 712-7 and L. 712-9;2° References to Regulation…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-1

…and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, done at Lugano on 30 October 2007;2° Applications for the purposes of obtaining an extract from a decision submitted p…

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