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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Administrative tax commissions and tax abuse committee

Article 1651 L

Where increases based on the same grounds are notified to companies that are members of a group within the meaning of Article 223 A or article 223 A bis, any taxpayer may request that the matter be re…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter I ter: Approved management centres, management and accounting associations, approved associations of the liberal professions and approved joint management bodies

Article 1649 quater K bis

The composition of the boards of directors of approved management centres, associations and joint management bodies is set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter I ter: Approved management centres, management and accounting associations, approved associations of the liberal professions and approved joint management bodies

Article 1649 quater K quater

Registered management centres, registered associations and registered joint management bodies are subject to a specific inspection by the tax authorities, which does not constitute the start of any of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Provisions applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands.

Article L956-4

…cation of articles L. 621-4, L. 621-10, L. 622-19, L. 622-24, L. 622-26, L. 625-4, L. 626-5, L. 626-20, L. 631-18, L. 641-1, L. 641-8, L. 641-14, L. 661-5 and L. 662-4, the institutions mentioned in a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNES DES DÉPARTEMENTS DE LA MOSELLE, DU BAS-RHIN ET DU HAUT-RHIN

Article L5811-1

References made by articles L. 1612-20, L. 5211-3, L. 5211-4 and L. 5212-1 to L. 5212-2 and L. 5212-4, insofar as they relate to syndicates of communes, shall be understood as referring to the provisi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XV: Prosecution, investigation and trial of acts of terrorism

Article R50-84

…more than six months due to the detention of the person concerned in accordance with Article 706-25-20, the Anti-Terrorism Public Prosecutor shall refer the matter to the Paris Sentence Enforcement Co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Approval of unemployment insurance agreements

Article R5422-16

…gaining, Employment and Vocational Training). The framework document referred to in article L. 5422-20-1 is appended to the approval order. It may be revoked when the stipulations of the agreement or…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: BUDGET AND ACCOUNTS

Article L2313-1-1

…ss account and exceeding the threshold provided for in the third paragraph of Article 10 of the loi n° 2000-321 du 12 avril 2000.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Right to title

Article R611-14-1

…invention. This bonus is paid in two instalments. Entitlement to the first instalment, representing 20% of the amount of the bonus, arises at the end of a period of one year from the date on which the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Provisions common to property liable to direct local taxes

Article 1518 B

…the bases of the establishments concerned by a transaction represented, in the same year, more than 20% of the business tax bases imposed for the benefit of the municipality in which they are located.…

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