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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Transfers of company rights

Article 728

Without prejudice to the provisions of article 1655 ter, transfers of shares or units conferring on their owners the right to the enjoyment of immovable property or fractions of immovable property are…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 776

The bulletin n° 2 of the criminal record is issued:1° To prefects and State public administrations dealing with applications for the duties of a commercial court judge, applications for public employm…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 775

Bulletin no. 2 is the record of the criminal records applicable to the same person, excluding those concerning the following decisions: 1° Convictions, convictions with an exemption from sentence or a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Transfer of ownership of movable property for valuable consideration

Article 732

Deeds recording the transfer for consideration of an agricultural business, consisting of all or some of the items listed in the

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2 : Land registration tax

Article 743

…e exempt from land registration tax: 1° Construction leases; 2° Long-term leases concluded pursuant to articles L. 416-1 to L. 416-6, L. 416-8 and L. 416-9du code rural et de la pêche maritime; 3° (Tr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 768

The automated national criminal record, which may include one or more processing centres, is kept under the authority of the Minister of Justice. It receives, as far as persons born in France are conc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 723

Sales of new goods correlative to the transfer or contribution to a company of a business are exempt from any proportional registration duty when they give rise to the collection of value added tax or…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
0A: General provisions

Article 718

…for valuable consideration of foreign movable property, whether tangible or intangible, are subject to transfer duties under the same conditions as if they related to French property of the same kind.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 6: Information to be provided to the public

Article L385-7

Without prejudice to their other information obligations, supplementary occupational pension funds shall publish an annual report on their solvency and financial situation. In the event of a major eve…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to UCITS, debt securitisation funds and property investment funds

Article L231-7

Promoters of a specialised finance fund or securitisation mutual fund are liable to two years' imprisonment and a fine of €750,000 if they invest in units of this fund without the approval of the fund…

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