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Showing 23412350 of 2923 articles for Art. Cons. const. – 30 Nov. 2018 – no. 2018-749 QPC

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General-purpose investment funds.

Article R214-32-42

…sistance has been put in place in the field of asset management on behalf of third parties;2° Up to 30% of its assets in units or shares of collective investment schemes governed by French law, of FIA…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article R1431-19

…is distributed under the same conditions.III. - Allocation operations must take place no later than 30 September of the year following the withdrawal. Failing this, the distribution is carried out, in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XV: Prosecution, investigation and trial of acts of terrorism

Article D47-6-16

…mmoning; 3° The rules relating to the extraction of detained convicts provided for in Article D. 49-30 and the declaration of address of released convicts provided for in Article D. 49-22 ; 4° Les règ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Judgment

Article R4443-6

…4234-40 are applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia in their version resulting from decree no. 2022-381 of 16 March 2022, subject to the adaptations provided for in II. II.-For their applicat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Commissioning authorisation.

Article R6312-33

Once a year, if the theoretical number of vehicles determined in accordance with articles R. 6312-30 and R. 6312-31 is greater than the number of vehicles already authorised, the Director General of t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Internal taxes.

Article 266 quindecies

…ng those mentioned in Article L. 312-58 of the same code; 4° The ENR Directive means Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Police

Article L2573-19

I.-The provisions of Chapter III of Title I of Book II of Part Two mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand colu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 212 bis

…subject to corporation tax up to the higher of the following two amounts:1° Three million euros;2° 30% of its income determined under the conditions of II.The amount referred to in 1° of this I is pe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-29

…the positive or negative amounts resulting from the application of 1.1 and 2.1 of article 78 of law no. 2009-1673 of 30 December 2009 on finance for 2010, including the amounts provided for in VIII of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 210 B

…ons of shareholdings giving the company receiving the contributions the direct holding of more than 30% of the voting rights of the company whose securities are contributed when no other shareholder h…

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