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Showing 451460 of 34927 articles for Art. Aut. conc. n° 22-D-10 du 12 Apr 2022

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: General savings products with specific tax arrangements.

Article D221-107

To open a Livret de développement durable et solidaire, an agreement must be signed between the institution and the customer.In this agreement, the customer must declare on his or her honour that he o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Retirement savings plans

Article D224-10

The ceiling provided for inArticle L. 3332-11 of the Labour Code is set at 16% of the annual amount of the ceiling provided for in Article L. 241-3 of the Social Security Code. The initial payment and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Authorisation and renewal

Article D1173-10

…paragraph of article R. 1173-1 a report on the activity and funding of the sports and health centre during the previous year. No later than eight months before the authorisation expires, the holder of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE IV: Transparency, restrictive competition practices and other prohibited practices.

Article D440-10

The Commercial Practices Review Board may only validly deliberate in the presence of half of its members plus one.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Territorial, local and departmental chambers of commerce and industry in the Ile-de-France region

Article D711-10

Chambers of commerce and industry are responsible for providing services to business start-ups and takeovers, as well as to industrial, commercial and service companies in their area.To fulfil this ro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Funeral home, mortuary and crematorium (R)

Article D2223-100

…al area reserved for professionals. It is designed in accordance with the provisions of Article L. 112-2 of the Construction and Housing Code. The public area of the crematorium reserved for the recep…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article D2342-10

…and settlement operations are recorded in the administrative accounts, in accordance with the procedures laid down by order of the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for Finance.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: ACCOUNTING

Article D2343-10

The commune's accounting officer's entries are kept in double-entry form. They require the use of the following documents: 1° Divisional journals on which transactions are entered in detail in chronol…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNE SECTION

Article D2411-10

The head office of the union commission is set at the town hall of the chief town of the commune to which the section belongs.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIX: Procedure applicable to sexual offences and the protection of minors who are victims

Article D47-10

…isions of Article 706-49 relating to informing the children's judge in the event of the opening of educational assistance proceedings, must be referred to the magistrate of the public prosecutor's off…

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