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Showing 4150 of 22656 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 28-11-2006 n° 05-20.436

French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter Id: Certifiers abroad

Article 1649 quater N

For the application of c of 1° of 7 of Article 158, professionals or organisations which do not have a permanent establishment in France but which are established in a Member State of the European Uni…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: The examination referred to in article R. 811-28-5

Article A811-28

Two months before the date of the session, the committee will draw up a list of candidates admitted to take the knowledge test. Individual invitations mentioning the day, time and place of the test ar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 11: Instruments reserved for small-value payments

Article L133-28

I. - A decree defines the maximum amounts of payment, expenditure or storage of funds below which payment instruments designed to guarantee compliance with these thresholds are considered to be reserv…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 11: Access to electricity or natural gas consumption data

Article D224-28

The secure space referred to in article D. 224-26 comporte : 1° Une information sur les caractéristiques et l'utilité des données mises à disposition; 2° Une information sur les fonctionnalités prévue…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Invoices

Article 289

I. - 1. Every taxable person shall ensure that an invoice is issued, by himself, or in his name and on his behalf, by his customer or by a third party:a. For supplies of goods or services which he car…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-28

If several confiscation orders issued against the same person relate either to a sum of money and that person does not have sufficient assets in France for all the orders to be enforced, or to the sam…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: The expert's opinion.

Article 282

If the opinion does not require written developments, the judge may authorise the expert to present it orally at the hearing; a record of this shall be drawn up. However, the minutes may be replaced b…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-title III: Disputes relating to literal evidence.

Article 286

An inscription of forgery against an authentic instrument falls within the jurisdiction of the court hearing the main action when it is brought incidentally before a judicial court or before a court o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Optional or exceptional acts

Article 283

The President, if the investigation appears to him to be incomplete or if new information has come to light since its closure, may order any acts of information that he deems useful. This is done eith…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28

Officials and agents of administrations and public services to whom special laws assign certain judicial police powers exercise these powers under the conditions and within the limits set by these law…

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