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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Advertising

Article L312-10

In all advertising, it is forbidden to state that a credit transaction or agreement, or a credit transaction consisting of grouping together previous loans, may be granted without any information enab…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative penalties

Article L241-10

…itions for bringing the goods into conformity, is subject to an administrative fine of up to 15,000 euros for a natural person and 75,000 euros for a legal entity. This fine is imposed under the condi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Controlled declaration system

Article 100 bis

I - Taxable profits from literary, scientific or artistic production as well as those from the practice of sport may, at the request of taxpayers subject to the controlled declaration regime, be deter…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2a: Special declaration system

Article 102 ter

…vious calendar year or the penultimate year, adjusted if necessary in proportion to the time worked during the reference year, does not exceed €77,700 is equal to the gross amount of annual receipts l…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Voter information, election campaign and voting operations

Article LO1112-10

The following are entitled to take part in the campaign for the referendum, at their request, by the executive of the territorial authority that has decided to organise the poll:- the groups of electe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: PUBLIC SERVICE CONTRACTS

Article L1411-10

The provisions of articles L. 1411-1 to L. 1411-9 apply to groupings of territorial authorities and to other public establishments of these authorities.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article L1611-10

I. - Where the European Commission considers that the State has failed to fulfil one of its obligations under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and that the obligation concerned fall…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-10

…L. 1612-14 has the effect of suspending the implementation of this budget until the end of the procedure. However, the provisions of article L. 1612-1. In addition, expenditure on the investment secti…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Special provisions for certain transfers

Article L1614-10

The appropriations previously included in the State budget for the construction, equipment and operation of municipal and inter-municipal libraries and the equipment of departmental libraries are the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-10

Specific State subsidies calculated on a pre-tax amount are not deducted from actual investment expenditure taken into account for the calculation of allocations from the Value Added Tax Compensation…

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