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Showing 18211830 of 18298 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 28 Oct. 1986

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions and procedures for authorisation of investment service providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L532-2

…L. 511-98 to L. 511-101 in the case of a class 1 bis investment firm, articles L. 533-25 to L. 533-28, L. 533-29-1, L. 533-29-2, L. 533-29-4, L. 533-31 and L. 533-31-4 in the case of a Class 2 invest…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Municipal services

Article L2573-25

…1 February 1996 L. 2223-12-1 law no. 2008-1350 of 19 December 2008 L. 2223-13 order no. 2005-855 of 28 July 2005 L. 2223-14 law no. 96-142 of 21 February 1996 L. 2223-15 law no. 2022-217 of 21 Februar…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Property tax on undeveloped land

Article 1395 G

…d according to the organic production method provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC)…

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

Article 244 quater B bis

I.-A.-Industrial, commercial and agricultural companies taxed on the basis of their actual profits or exempt pursuant to Articles 44 sexies, 44 sexies A, 44 octies A, 44 duodecies and 44 terdecies to…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 1: Furnished tourist accommodation

Article L324-1-1

…462 of 6 July 1989 aimed at improving rental relations and amending law no. 86-1290 of 23 December 1986.III - By way of derogation from II, in municipalities where the change of use of premises inten…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 199 decies F

…a, which is intended for rental as a furnished tourist property within the meaning of the decree of 28 December 1976; c) Expenditure relating to a dwelling, completed at least fifteen years ago and fo…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VIII: Provisions common to different categories of income

Article 154 bis-0 A

…Financial Code made into a retirement savings plan mentioned in article L. 224-13 or article L. 224-28 of the same code or into a French sub-account of the pan-European individual retirement savings p…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Creation of a new commune

Article L2113-22

…xt general renewal of municipal councils following the promulgation of Finance Act no. 2019-1479 of 28 December 2019 for 2020 and grouping a population less than or equal to 150,000 inhabitants receiv…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Negotiating and formalising the commercial relationship

Article L441-8

…iod provided for in the third paragraph, and unless recourse is made to arbitration, Article L. 631-28 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code is applied without the contract being able to provide for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Access by the National Commission to information covered by medical confidentiality

Article R1142-41-1

…e request has electronically signed it in accordance with the provisions of Decree no. 2017-1416 of 28 September 2017 on electronic signatures, under conditions that comply with best practice. The ope…

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