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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The exchange of information between the competent authorities of different Member States pursuant to Directive 2019/1153 of 20 June 2019

Article R49-40

When, pursuant to the provisions of Articles 694-14 to 695-9-57, the departments and units mentioned in Article 695-9-31 transmit information obtained from the department mentioned in Article L. 561-2…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The exchange of information between the competent authorities of different Member States pursuant to Directive 2019/1153 of 20 June 2019

Article R49-41

When responding to requests for information mentioned in article 695-9-47-1, the persons mentioned in the same article shall use secure electronic means of communication specified by joint order of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The exchange of information between the competent authorities of different Member States pursuant to Directive 2019/1153 of 20 June 2019

Article R49-42

The public prosecutor, the investigating judge and the officers or agents of the judicial police mentioned in articles 60-1,77-1-1 and 99-3 keep registers enabling the traceability of requests receive…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Suspension of the realisation of assets in insolvency proceedings opened against a member of a corporate group

Article L694-1

…referred to in b of paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 of Article 60 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) 2015/848, the provisions of Article L. 692-4 shall apply. The insolvency practitioner appointed in i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Suspension of the realisation of assets in insolvency proceedings opened against a member of a corporate group

Article R694-1

…apply to the suspension measure referred to in Article 60 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) No 2015/848.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 970

The assets mentioned in article 965 placed in a trust defined in article 792-0 bis are included, for their net market value on 1st January of the tax year, as the case may be, in the assets of the set…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 972

The surrender value of surrenderable insurance contracts and capitalisation bonds or contracts expressed in units of account mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 131-1 of the Insurance Code…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 972 ter

…65 and under the same conditions, shares in property investment companies mentioned in I of article 208 C when the taxpayer holds, directly and, where applicable, indirectly, alone or jointly with the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 972 bis

…dertaking for collective investment are composed directly or indirectly, to the extent of less than 20%, of immovable property or rights taxable under the conditions provided for in 2° of the said art…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 971

I.-The rights attached to a leasing contract entered into under the conditions provided for in Article 2 of L. 313-7 of the Monetary and Financial Code are included, for the value of the assets mentio…

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