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Showing 38413850 of 5011 articles for Art. BOI-IR-RICI-290-20 n° 180 s.

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions specific to credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and central counterparties

Article L613-32-1

…nstitution or investment firm with significant branches, establish and chair a college of supervisors. V. - (Repealed) VI. - A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the conditions for applicati…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2nd Subsection: Overall income

Article 163 quinquies B

…s covered by Article L. 214-37 of the Monetary and Financial Code as it stood prior to l'ordonnance n° 2013-676 du 25 juillet 2013 modifiant le cadre juridique de la gestion d'actifs ou de fonds profe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-21

…credit institution mentioned in the second paragraph of II of article R. 214-19 and 5% in other cases. II. - As an exception to the 5% limit set in 1° of I, a UCITS may invest up to 10% of its assets…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L111-7

…nd maternity shall not result in less favourable treatment of women in terms of premiums and benefits. By way of derogation from the first paragraph, the Minister responsible for the economy may autho…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article R228-3

I.-The information referred to in I and II of Article L. 228-2 and in Article L. 228-3 is, for each security owner, as follows: 1° Those listed in items 1 (a) to 11 of Table 2 of the Annex to Commissi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Commencement of duties.

Article R6152-15

Practitioners appointed under 4° or 5° of article R. 6152-7 are classified in the post of hospital practitioner, taking into account :1° The legal length of national service and compulsory military se…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Organisation of the commune

Article L2573-12

…IV. 2° The 6th paragraph of IV does not apply to associated communes with more than 3,500 inhabitants. III. III -For the application of article L. 2131-2: 1° In the first paragraph of I and in the sec…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Retirement savings plans giving rise to membership of a group insurance contract

Article L142-3

…loss of employment, payable in the form of an annuity or a lump sum paid in one go or in instalments. This guarantee cannot be offered in a French sub-account of the pan-European individual retiremen…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1639 A quater

I. - (Repealed)II. - 1. The public establishment of intercommunal cooperation resulting from the merger pursuant to article L. 5211-41-3 of the General Local Authorities Code or, when the perimeter of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Cross-border transactions

Article R236-24

…e business of the company. The report shall include a section for members and a section for employees. It includes a section for shareholders and a section for employees. The company may decide to dra…

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