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Showing 27112720 of 2758 articles for Art. EU Reg. 650/2012

French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IV: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R445-3

…the references to articles L. 421-9 to L. 421-11, L. 421-15, L. 421-16 and L. 421-23 as well as the European Blue Card talent passport and the mobility programme researcher talent passport are deleted…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 261

…8° ter Les prestations de services réalisées par les mandataires judiciaires à la protection des majeurs au sens de l'article L. 471-2 of the Code de l'action sociale et des familles;9° the provision…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter one: Setting the rates used to calculate direct local taxation

Article 1636 B octies

…ided between property taxes, the taxe d'habitation sur les résidences secondaires et autres locaux meublés non affectés à l'habitation principale and the cotisation foncière des entreprises proportion…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 256 C

I.-Taxable persons who have in France the seat of their economic activity or a permanent establishment or, failing that, their domicile or habitual residence, with the exception of permanent establish…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART ONE

Article Annexe 13-8

…001.1045.10145.10155.1017Sm-1531.1061001.1022.10122.10132.1015Sm-1551.106//NANANASm-1561.106//NANANAEu-1451.106//NANANAEu-1461.106//NANANAEu-1471.106//2.10112.10122.1014Eu-1481.106//3.10103.10113.1013…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2i: Companies located in rural regeneration areas

Article 44 quindecies

…benefit of the exemption and partial taxation is subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2

…rts and airports constituting border crossing points within the meaning of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on a Union Code on the ru…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IX: Special arrangements applicable to taxable persons supplying services to non-taxable persons or carrying out distance sales of goods or certain domestic supplies of goods

Article 298 sexdecies G

…he same Member State; This scheme applies to all goods and services supplied in this way within the European Union. A taxable person not established in the Member State of consumption is considered to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Measures to prevent and manage banking crises

Article L613-48

…st be necessary to make good capital shortfalls identified in stress tests carried out at national, European Union or single supervisory mechanism level or in asset quality reviews or equivalent studi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Certification of accounts

Article A823-5-1

…s functions, a supplementary report including the information required by Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of 16 April 2014. Impact on the mission of exchanges with the bodies mentioned in Ar…

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