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Showing 11711180 of 3518 articles for Art. CE 30 Dec 2010 n° 338197

French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: Regulation of investments and other assets

Article A332-3

…al and interest, resulting either from one or more issues with a nominal value at issue of at least 30 million euros, or from an issue programme with a minimum value of at least 30 million euros; 2° B…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Debt securities

Article D744-6

…ted in the right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeD. 213-1 to D. 213-3, D. 213-5 to D. 213-7n° 2016-707 of 30 May 2016D. 213-8n° 2019-1097 of 28…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK II: INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION

Article L5210-1-1

I. - In each department, based on an assessment of the coherence of the perimeters and an inventory of the distribution of the competences of the existing groupings and their exercise, a departmental…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Authorised buyers

Article L2211-1

Any purchaser is authorised to conclude a partnership contract, with the exception of the purchasers mentioned in the second paragraph. Within the meaning of this book, unauthorised purchasers are bod…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2nd Subsection: Overall income

Article 163 bis

I. (Expired) II.-Retirement benefits paid in the form of a lump sum taxable in accordance with b quinquies of the 5th of article 158 may, at the express and irrevocable request of the beneficiary, be…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Sociétés civiles de placement immobilier (non-trading property investment companies), sociétés d'épargne forestière (forestry savings companies) and groupements forestiers d'investissement (forestry investment groups)

Article R214-164

…ordinary general meeting of shareholders.However, the following transactions, provided that they concern an area of less than 1% of the woods and forests held by the forest savings company, up to a li…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Provisions specific to the communes of Marseille and Lyon

Article L2513-7

…d the city of Marseille.From 2014, the amount of this contribution may not be less than the difference, if positive, between the resources allocated to the Bouches-du-Rhône department, pursuant to I o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Expenditure

Article L2573-41

…f Article L. 2321-2:1° In 2°, the words: "recueil des actes administratifs du département" are replaced by the words: "Journal officiel de la Polynésie française";2° In 3°, the words: "au régime génér…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Common provisions (R)

Article D1612-1

…e municipality, the net tax rates adopted by the municipality the previous year, the average reference rates at national and departmental level, as well as the ceiling rates which are enforceable agai…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter VII: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN THE FRENCH AUSTRALIAN AND ANTARCTIC TERRITORIES

Article L157-1

…shall apply in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories in the wording resulting from ordonnance n°2020-1733 du 16 décembre 2020, unless otherwise stated or mentioned as applying ipso jure in th…

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