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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: General system of acquits-à-caution.

Article 121

1. The Director General of Customs and Excise may authorise the replacement of the acquit-à-caution by any document in lieu thereof, valid for one or more operations and offering the same guarantees.…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: General system of acquits-à-caution.

Article 120

1. Goods transported in bond or placed under a customs procedure suspending duties, taxes or prohibitions must be covered by an acquit-à-caution.2. The acquit-à-caution shall include, in addition to t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: General system of acquits-à-caution.

Article 124

…tration of the acquits-à-caution or documents in lieu thereof and the penalties incurred shall be determined on the basis of the same duties and taxes or on the basis of the value of the said quantiti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1518 F

Decisions taken pursuant to articles 1504 and 1518 ter cannot be contested in a dispute relating to the rental value of a built-up property.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Prescription of a route

Article R5132-1-1

A pathway to integration through economic activity may be prescribed to any person declared eligible, under the conditions set out in sub-section 2 of this section, by one of the prescribers mentioned…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Removal from a living person.

Article L1231-1

…of organs from a living person who donates them may only be carried out in the direct therapeutic interest of a recipient. The donor must be the father or mother of the recipient.Notwithstanding the f…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article L711-1

…ral or legal persons.This sign must be capable of being represented in the national trade mark register in such a way as to enable any person to determine precisely and clearly the subject matter of t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article R711-1

The trade mark shall be represented in the national trade mark register in an appropriate form by means of commonly available technology, provided that it can be represented in that register in a clea…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Administrative tax commissions and tax abuse committee

Article 1651 M

The chairman of the Commission des impôts directs et des taxes sur le chiffre d'affaires provided for in article 1651 , of the Commission nationale des impôts directs et des taxes sur le chiffre d'aff…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 1695 quater

Taxpayers pay value added tax and taxes assimilated to turnover tax by remote payment.

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