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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Insufficient declaration

Article 1729-0 A

I. - A surcharge of 80% shall apply to the duties due in the event of a rectification due to:a) Sums appearing or having appeared on one or more accounts that should have been declared pursuant to the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conditions of professional competence.

Article R512-12

I.-When the intermediaries referred to in 3° or 4° of the I of article R. 511-2 and their employees carry on the business of distribution as an ancillary activity to their main professional activity a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions adapting Book IV.

Article L914-2

Article L. 441-11 II is amended as follows: 1° 1° is worded as follows: "1° For purchases of perishable agricultural and food products and frozen or deep-frozen meat, deep-frozen fish, ready-made meal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Search of the file and direct information to the Ministry of the Interior

Article R53-8-24

I.-Pursuant to the provisions of 3° of Article 706-53-7, may directly query the file, via a secure telecommunications system, based solely on the identity of a person who has applied for recruitment,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article R214-32-42

…und governed by this paragraph may invest :1° Up to all of its assets in :a) Units or shares of French or foreign UCITS ;b) Units or shares of general-purpose investment funds covered by this paragrap…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Funds repayable from the public.

Article R312-18

For the purposes of Article L. 312-2, issues of debt securities are treated as collections of repayable funds from the public when they comply with the following conditions and limits:1° These issues…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER Ia: Provisions governing the public company referred to in Article L. 1611-3-2 known as Agence France Locale

Article D1871-3

I.-The provisions of Section 7 of Chapter I of Title I of Book VI of Part One mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the righ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article R2336-9

I. - An indicator of the resources of the communes of New Caledonia is created, which corresponds to the sum of:a) The flat-rate allocation of the global operating allocation defined in Article L. 233…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to the immediate payment of fixed fines for offences not involving the loss of driving licence points

Article A37-25

I. - On the front of slips no. 2, 3, 4 and 5, on the left-hand side of "B. Collection", the offender and the enforcement officers sign their names under the heading: "He acknowledges having been infor…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Fate of preserved gametes and germ tissue

Article R2141-22

A practitioner meeting the criteria mentioned in articles R. 2142-10 and R. 2142-11 working in a medical biology laboratory authorised for the activities mentioned in c and d of 2° of article R. 2142-…

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