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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 621-6

The following are eligible for direct subsidies:1° Long-length cinematographic works for which investment approval has been granted;2° Audiovisual works in the fiction and creative documentary genres…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 621-7

…ng production costs, corresponding to work carried out in France by companies established in France:1° Digital visual effects costs;2° Costs relating to the overall additional cost of producing the wo…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 621-9

…enses taken into account to calculate the direct allocation are capped at 80% of the production budget for the work or, in the case of an international co-production, 80% of the French participation.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Measures to boost cinema distribution

Article 916-9

…the sums representing the automatic financial aid to which they are entitled under article 222-3, between 2 September 2020 and 16 February 2021, are those set out in article 916-10.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Other products and objects.

Article L5463-1

…h the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the agents mentioned in article L. 511-3 and in 1° and 2° of I of article L. 511-22 of the Consumer Code and the doctors appointed by the Director G…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Transactions carried out by supplementary occupational pension funds

Article L143-2-1

The assets of each contract covered by this section and subject to sub-accounting are held by one or more custodians separate from the supplementary occupational pension fund, which primarily provide…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter III: STAYS OF MORE THAN THREE MONTHS

Article L233-1

European Union citizens have the right to reside in France for more than three months if they meet one of the following conditions:1° They are gainfully employed in France;2° They have sufficient reso…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article D6124-271

I.-The medical staff required for surgical activity includes: 1° Doctors specialising in surgery, whose speciality is adapted to the specific therapeutic practices mentioned in II of article R. 6123-2…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to safeguard procedures, receivership, compulsory liquidation and conciliation procedures applicable to credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms.

Article R613-18

I. - The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution is required to inform, without delay and by any means, the operator of the systems referred to in Article L. 330-1 in which the person concern…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definition and conditions for carrying out preimplantation diagnosis

Article R2131-26-1

…le or an unmarried woman wishes to have recourse to preimplantation diagnosis under the conditions set out in article L. 2131-4-1, at least one doctor from the multidisciplinary team of the prenatal d…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
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