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Showing 15111520 of 21675 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 16 Nov. 2022 – no. 21-17.423

French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1607 bis

…ode or the Corsican land office, a public establishment of the Corsican collectivity created by Law No. 2014-366 of 24 March 2014 for access to housing and renovated town planning, to enable these est…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 167-1

…party shall be notified in accordance with the conditions set out in the first paragraph of Article 167, where applicable in the presence of the expert or experts. In criminal cases, this presence is…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to insurance undertakings.

Article R321-16

For the three financial years following the issue of the authorisations referred to in Articles L. 321-1, L. 321-7 and L. 329-1, the undertaking must submit to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et d…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Electronic auctions

Article R2362-16

…panied by the result of the full evaluation of its tender carried out in application of article R. 2162-60. It also mentions the mathematical formula which will determine, during the electronic auctio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Administrative tax commissions and tax abuse committee

Article 1651 K

…Article L. 59 A of the Book of Tax Procedures, the commission comprises, by derogation from Article 1651 H, in addition to the chairman, three agents of the administration, one notary and three repres…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Withholding taxes and levies on income from securities

Article 1672 bis

…l tax previously in force, shall apply ipso jure to the withholding tax referred to in 1 of article 1672.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Apprenticeship programme authorisation procedure

Article R1161-16

…by the company marketing the medicinal product; 6° The follow-up report referred to in article R. 1161-25, in the event of an application for renewal of authorisation; 7° Authorisation from the Commi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Financial guarantee

Article R1333-163

The amount of the financial guarantee required by Article R. 1333-162 is established on the basis of a national scale which defines a take-back cost taking into account the nature of the radionuclide,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: General provisions relating to elections to the disciplinary boards of New Caledonia and French Polynesia

Article D4443-16

In the event of an election of all the elected members of the Disciplinary Board, in order to allow the renewal by half provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 4443-2, lots are drawn at the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-21-7

I. - When the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution is consulted by the authority of another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, resp…

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