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Showing 19811990 of 5611 articles for Art. Directive 86/653/EEC – 18 Dec. 1986

French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 1649 AC

…d deadlines set by decree, the information required for the application of Article 8(3a) of Council Directive 2011/16/EU of 15 February 2011 on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Collective investments

Article L214-1

…s1° Undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities authorised in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordinati…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 231-5

The amount of the direct allocation is obtained by multiplying the circulation index by the ratio between the amount of credits allocated to direct allocations and the sum of the circulation indices o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-87

…ion, where applicable, of the minimum number of shares required to meet the requirements of article 1832 of the Civil Code or articles L. 225-1, L. 226-1 and L. 22-10-2 of this code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to professional non-trading companies

Article R822-90

The provisions of article R. 822-89 are applicable to the transfer of the corporate units of a member whose exclusion from the company has been decided for conviction under the conditions provided for…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R272

In Article R. 49, the following paragraph is added: "For New Caledonia and French Polynesia, the amount of the fixed fine is set respectively by the Congress of New Caledonia and the Council of Minist…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Book V: RIGHT OF ASYLUM AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION

Article L550-1

The reception conditions, within the meaning of Directive 2013/33/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of persons seeking internatio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Partial access

Article L4002-6

…ed to benefit from automatic recognition of their professional qualifications within the meaning of Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recogn…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: General information.

Article 38

…and mentioned in Article L. 2342-8 of the same Code, to the equipment mentioned in Article L. 2335-18 of the said Code and to explosive products intended for military purposes mentioned in Article L.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 163 quatervicies

…le 5 of Ordinance no. 2001-350 of 19 April 2001 relating to the Mutual Code and transposing Council Directives 92/49/EEC and 92/96/EEC of 18 June and 10 November 1992, for their collective operations…

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