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Showing 30413050 of 3334 articles for Art. Ordinance no. 2019-359 – 24 Apr. 2019

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Undertakings for collective real estate investment.

Article R214-114

…ts make it possible to transfer the credit risk linked to an instrument mentioned in article L. 214-24-55, independently of the other risks linked to this instrument, and comply with the following cri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-15

…r local authorities, their establishments and groupings and other purchasers, in b of I of appendix no. 2 of the Public Procurement Code, the National Council awards the contracts mentioned in article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART SIX

Article Annexe 61-3

…and - Permanent plantations 2122: Fixtures and fittings on developed land - Permanent plantations 2124: Fixtures and fittings on land under construction - Permanent plantations 2125: Fixtures and fitt…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Scope of the tax

Article 208

…and 3° bis (Repealed); 3° ter-Les sociétés immobilières de gestion visées à l'article 1er du decree no. 63-683 of 13 July 1963, for the fraction of their net profit that comes from the rental of their…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: General obligations of traders

Article A123-7

A strategic college is hereby set up under the authority of the Minister for the Economy to oversee the monitoring of the processing of company formalities, authorisations to access or carry out their…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 200 quater

…g, a single energy audit gives entitlement to the tax credit;m) Expenditure paid, between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2020, for the removal of an oil tank.n) Expenditure, paid between 1 January 202…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant breeding

Article L623-4

…or combination of genotypes of the initial variety. V.-Subject to the provisions of Article L. 623-24-1, the production, offering, sale, placing on the market, import, export, transhipment, use and o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L622-17

…e this information relates to a claim declared on behalf of the creditor pursuant to Article L. 622-24, it renders this declaration null and void if the judge has not ruled on the admission of the cla…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Scope of application

Article 998

…Code and managed jointly by policyholders and insurers, or articles L. 932-1, L. 932-14 and L. 932-24 du code de la sécurité sociale or L. 221-2 and L. 222-1 du code de la mutualité, of which at leas…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-9

…informs the person entered in the file that the State administrations mentioned in article R. 53-8-24 may directly query the file pursuant to the first paragraph of 3° of Article 706-53-7. The model…

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