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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Financial and accounting system

Article R211-18

The financial and accounting regime of the Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance is set out in articles…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Labelling and presentation of foodstuffs and feedingstuffs

Article R412-18

The implementing measures provided for in Article L. 412-1 include: 1° The provisions of Articles 1 to 4, 16 and 18 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 J…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1523

The tax is imposed in the name of the owners or usufructuaries and payable against them and their principal tenants (1). Civil or military civil servants and employees housed in buildings belonging to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1520

I. - Municipalities that provide at least household waste collection may institute a tax intended to provide for the expenses of the household waste collection and treatment service and the waste ment…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1524

In the event of a vacancy lasting more than three months, the tax may be discharged or reduced on the basis of a complaint submitted in accordance with the conditions laid down in such cases for prope…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
E: Tax on commercial wasteland

Article 1530

I. - Communes may, by a resolution passed under the conditions provided for in I of Article 1639 A bis, institute an annual tax on commercial wasteland located on their territory. However, public esta…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1525

In communes with a total population not exceeding 5,000 inhabitants, the deliberations of the municipal councils relating to the tax for the removal of household waste may provide that the total reven…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1522

I. - The tax is established on the basis of the net income serving as the basis for the property tax, defined by Article 1388.The tax base for dwellings occupied by civil servants and civilian or mili…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1521

I. - The tax applies to all properties subject to property tax on built properties or which are temporarily exempt from such tax, as well as to the housing of civil servants or civilian and military e…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Household waste collection tax

Article 1526

Supplementary rolls may be drawn up on the basis of facts existing on 1 January of the year of taxation.

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