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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-38

…nishable in France by a custodial sentence of at least three years' imprisonment, or in order to conduct investigations to establish proof or to track down the perpetrators of such an offence, the ser…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions applicable to requests for information received by the French services

Article 695-9-47

An order of the Minister for Justice, the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for the Budget shall designate the contact points to which requests for the transmission of information may be addr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: List of essential information to be provided by the State representative (R).

Article D1612-1

…which are enforceable against the municipality pursuant to the provisions of article 1636 B septies du code général des impôts; 2° Le montant de la dotation de compensation de la taxe professionnelle…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 6: Sociétés de participations financières de professions libérales d'administrateurs judiciaires ou de mandataires judiciaires (financial holding companies for the liberal professions of court-appointed administrators or agents)

Article R814-158

Les sociétés de participations financières de professions libérales constituées, en application du titre IV de la loi n° 90-1258 du 31 décembre 1990 relative à l'exercice sous forme de sociétés des pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article R22-10-28

…market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology and amending Regulations (EU) No 600/2014 and (EU) No 909/2014 and Directive 2014/65/EU. I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-I.-…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Repair, reconstruction and rebuilding of property and businesses damaged as a result of hostilities

Article 1056

…October 1946 on war damage are, provided that they expressly refer to it, exempt from registration duties and land registration tax.The provisions of the first paragraph do not apply to transfers of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article A38-4

…detected by the automated control system in accordance with the dispositions de l'article L. 130-9 du code de la route et résultant d'un titre exécutoire signé par le procureur de la République près…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to establishments distributing the Livret A or the Livret de développement durable et solidaire.

Article R221-9

I.-Resources collected by institutions distributing the Livret A or the Livret de développement durable et solidaire and not centralised pursuant to the third paragraph of article L. 221-5 are allocat…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-3-4

…ly to:1° Spot commodity contracts, within the meaning of Article 3(1)(15) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (Market Abuse Re…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Organised trading systems

Article L763-6

…ironment Code does not apply; 2° In I of Article L. 425-1, the references to Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 are replaced by references to Arti…

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