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Showing 14211430 of 18298 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 28 Oct. 1986

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Implementation procedures and specifications for the supported employment scheme

Article D5213-93

…to in the aforementioned article L. 146-9 to make an emergency decision under 5° of article R. 241-28 of the same code. II - Prior to the decisions mentioned in I, a preliminary assessment may be car…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Secondment.

Article R6152-51

…t allow the normal performance of service obligations as defined in articles R. 6152-27 and R. 6152-28 ; 5° Secondment as a university hospital practitioner, under the conditions provided for in artic…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 41

I. - Capital gains subject to the regime of articles 39 duodecies à 39 quindecies and realised by an individual on the occasion of the free transfer of a sole proprietorship may benefit from the follo…

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

Article 1607 bis

…um of the proceeds of the tax, the amount mentioned in H of V of Article 16 of Law No. 2019-1479 of 28 December 2019 on the finances for 2020 and the amount mentioned in 1 of B of III of Article 29 of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Redundancies for economic reasons.

Article L321-13

…or more than three months as a job seeker, when recruitment took place after 9 June 1992 and before 28 May 2003;7° bis Termination of the employment contract of an employee who was over the age of for…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Income tax and corporation tax

Article 238 bis

…quater) National programme companies mentioned in the article 44 of law no. 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 relating to freedom of communication and allocated to the financing of cultural audiovisual pro…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Provisions common to property liable to direct local taxes

Article 1518

…business property tax assessments.IV. - The updates of property rental values provided for 1983 and 1986 are replaced by a flat-rate revaluation under the conditions provided for in article 1518 bis.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Advance information of employees enabling them to make an offer in the event of the sale of a business in undertakings subject to the obligation to set up a works council

Article L141-31

The sale is again subject to articles L. 141-28 to L. 141-30 when it occurs more than two years after the date on which all employees were informed of the sale. If during this two-year period the work…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: REFUGEE STATUS

Article L511-1

…4 December 1950;3° To any person who meets the definitions of Article 1 of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 relating to the Status of Refugees.These persons are governed by the provisions applica…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R212-8

…de-France are set out in articles R. * 423-36, R. 423-44, R. 423-44-1, R. 423-45, R. 424-2, R. 431-28, R. 510-1 and R. 510-6 of the town planning code.

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