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Showing 24612470 of 30455 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. avis 20-10-2022 n° 22-70.011 B

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Reimbursement of expenses

Article R2123-22-1

Members of the town council entrusted with special mandates by their assembly may claim, on proof of the actual duration of the trip, firstly, payment of daily allowances intended to reimburse their a…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20-3

I.-The right to authorise the simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission, other than cable retransmission as defined in III of article L. 132-20-1 and meeting the conditions mentioned in II…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20-4

The right to authorise a signal distributor to represent a work under the conditions mentioned in article L. 122-2-4 may only be exercised by a collective management organisation.If this organisation…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Declared funds.

Article D214-206-1

The extract from the articles of association of the société de libre partenariat referred to in article L. 214-162-6 is filed in the appendix to the register of companies. It is signed by the general…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 200 quater C

1. Taxpayers domiciled in France within the meaning of Article 4 B may benefit from an income tax credit in respect of expenditure actually incurred, between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2025, for t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article R561-20-5

…referred to in Article L. 561-11 shall provide for at least one of the following measures: 1° Prohibiting the establishment in France of subsidiaries, branches or representative offices of persons eq…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 10: Banking, financial and insurance contracts

Article L224-100

The rules relating to the obligation to provide information by credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and the bodies mentioned in Article L. 518-1…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 10: Banking, financial and insurance contracts

Article L224-101

The rules on direct marketing of banking or financial services are laid down by the provisions of Chapter I of Title IV of Book III of the Monetary and Financial Code.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 10: Banking, financial and insurance contracts

Article L224-102

The rules on canvassing for insurance are set out in the provisions of Chapter II of Title I of Book I of the Insurance Code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Management and administration

Article L22-10-10

…information mentioned in article L. 225-37-4, the following information: 1° The composition of the Board and the conditions in which its work is prepared and organised; 2° Where the balance sheet tot…

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