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Showing 1120 of 25610 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 7 Oct. 1997 – no. 95-14.158

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-11

…relating to [Provisions declared to be unconstitutional by Constitutional Council Decision No 2019-778 DC of 21 March 2019.] one of the offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73 and 706-73…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95-1

…ments of the investigation into a crime or one of the offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73 and 706-73-1 so require, the liberty and custody judge may, at the request of the public pros…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-18

The public prosecutor, the examining magistrate or the judicial police officer assigned by him or requested by the public prosecutor, or the judicial police officer acting under his responsibility, sh…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-19

The recordings and data collected during the operations carried out pursuant to this section shall be destroyed, at the request of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor, on expiry of the stat…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
7°: Operator obligations

Article 1565 octies

The conditions for application of articles 1559 to 1565 septies as well as the rules relating to the communication of the accounts of establishments subject to the tax are determined by decrees of the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter III: Abolition of tax benefits for businesses in the event of non-compliance with value added tax reporting obligations

Article 302 nonies

The income tax or corporation tax reliefs provided for in Articles 44 octies A, 44 terdecies, 44 quaterdecies, 44 quindecies, 44 sexdecies and 44 septdecies do not apply where one or more turnover dec…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2c: Marine fishing companies

Article 44 nonies

…mall-scale fishermen, subject to a real tax regime, who set up for the first time between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2010, are determined, for the first sixty months of activity, after deduction o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1e: Taxpayers carrying on their professional activity within the framework of a partnership

Article 151 nonies

…his rights or shares in the company are considered in particular for the application of articles 38,72and 93, as assets allocated to the exercise of the profession.II. - 1. In the event of a gratuitou…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Ia: Business value added tax

Article 1586 nonies

…company's request, of an exemption or a reduction at the same rate, up to a limit for 2022 of €154,732 and €420,505 respectively of added value per establishment and updated each year according to th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter I: Conditional tax benefits attached to donations

Article 1378 nonies

…Code finds that a political party or grouping is in breach of the obligations set out in article 11-7 of law no. 88-227 of 11 March 1988 relating to the financial transparency of political life, it ma…

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