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French General Tax CodeIn force
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Article 574

The conditions of application in the overseas departments of articles 565 and 570 to 572 are laid down by regulation (1).

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Common obligations

Article 539

Manufacturers and merchants may only purchase from persons known to them or having respondents known to them. When purchases of materials, works, platinum, gold or silver ingots, have been concluded w…

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Section V: Export or delivery to another Member State of the European Union

Article 543

Works of gold, silver or platinum may, under the conditions laid down by decree in the Council of State, be exported or be the subject of a delivery to another Member State of the European Union witho…

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Section V: Export or delivery to another Member State of the European Union

Article 547

The additional measures are determined by decrees in the Council of State (1). (1) Annex I, art. 204 to 211.

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Section IX: Application procedures

Article 553

The detailed rules for the application of the articles relating to gold, silver or platinum articles, in particular those relating to the testing or issue of authorisations, the application of hallmar…

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VI: Special provisions

Article 518

The provisions of this chapter do not preclude the special provisions laid down in respect of alcohol, wine, cider, perry and mead by the texts in force, with regard to Corsica, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin an…

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III: Common obligations

Article 535

…s treated as such and guarantee commission agents must take to the guarantee office to which they belong or to an approved inspection body the works which must benefit from the guarantee in order to b…

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Section II: Hallmarks

Article 524

The works are marked with two hallmarks: the maker's hallmark and the title hallmark, known as the guarantee hallmark. The maker's hallmark is in the form of a diamond containing an initial letter of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Manufacturers

Article 533

Manufacturers of gold, silver and platinum articles are required to make themselves known to the office of guarantee on which they depend and to have their particular hallmark inscribed there, with th…

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III: Common obligations

Article 538

New works deposited with manufacturers and dealers with a view to sale and used works which the said manufacturers have received on deposit, for whatever reason and in particular for repair, must also…

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