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Showing 28212830 of 45072 articles for Art. CAA Marseille 18-2-2020 n° 18MA02365

French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

Article L917-2

…s private-law staff and public-law staff, including those subject to the status provided for by loi n° 52-1311 du 10 décembre 1952 relative à l'établissement obligatoire d'un statut du personnel admin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to municipalities resulting from a merger with 100,000 inhabitants or less

Article R2113-23

…so applicable to the associated communes mentioned in article L. 2113-26 as it read prior to la loi n° 2010-1563 du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme des collectivités territoriales, when the municipal coun…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Loss of French nationality

Article 23-3

French nationals lose their French nationality if they exercise the option to renounce their French nationality in the cases provided for in Articles 18-1, 19-4 and 22-3.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title IV: Other service providers

Article D547-2

Where the provider of equity crowdfunding services asks the AMF to withdraw its authorisation, it shall transfer the existing contracts to another provider of equity crowdfunding services authorised t…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IV: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R444-2

Subject to the adaptations provided for in this chapter, the following provisions shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in their wording resulting from decree no. 2020-1734 of 16 December 2020,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority

Article R331-22

Recommendations adopted by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique pursuant to I of Article L. 331-18 may be published on the authority's website.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title IV: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R541-2

For the application of article R. 541-1 in New Caledonia: 1° A l'article R. 512-16-7, the words: ", without prejudice to the penalty provided for in Article L. 531-6" are deleted; 2° In Article R. 512…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Value added tax

Article 292

The tax base is made up of the value defined by customs legislation in accordance with the Community regulations in force.However, the tax base shall include:1° Taxes, duties, levies and other taxes t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title III: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation, exchange of information and supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates

Article L634-2

The procedure established, pursuant to I of Article 8 of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of economic life, by the persons mentioned…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter 2: Provisions relating to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

Article L162-2

The provisions of articles L. 133-1 to L. 133-18 and L. 134-3 are replaced, where applicable, by the provisions of the Municipalities Code applicable locally with the same purpose.

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