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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Appeal against the decision of the commission départementale d'aménagement cinématographique (Departmental Cinematographic Development Commission)

Article L212-10-8

…cinématographique, no new application may be submitted by the same applicant, for the same project and on the same plot of land, for a period of one year from the date of the national commission's de…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Appeal against the decision of the commission départementale d'aménagement cinématographique (Departmental Cinematographic Development Commission)

Article L212-10-5

The mayor of the municipality in which the cinemas are located, who is a member of the departmental cinematographic planning commission whose decision is the subject of the appeal, is heard by the nat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific solidarity allowance.

Article D5424-62

Beneficiaries of the specific solidarity allowance, under the conditions and according to the procedures set out in 2° and 3° of article R. 5423-1 and in articles R. 5423-12 to R. 5423-14 and R. 5425-…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Training Committee

Article L2315-49

…ovided for in article L. 2315-45, in undertakings with at least three hundred employees, the social and economic committee shall set up a training committee. This committee is responsible for: 1° Prep…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Control of legality

Article LO6342-2

…available to it, if a natural or legal person is injured by an act mentioned in articles LO 6341-2 and LO 6341-3, it may, within two months of the date on which the act became enforceable, request th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Restructuring and downsizing

Article L2312-58

In the absence of an agreement, when the proposed restructuring and downsizing submitted to the Social and Economic Committee is likely to affect the volume of activity or employment of a subcontracti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Undertakings for collective real estate investment with sub-funds

Article L214-85

…nting the assets of the undertaking for collective real estate investment allocated to it. Notwithstanding article 2285 of the French Civil Code and unless otherwise stipulated in the constitutive doc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation of the committee provided for in article 16-2

Article R15-16

The commission's decision may be referred to the Court of Cassation for breach of the law.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation of the committee provided for in article 16-2

Article R15-8

…vided for in Article 16-2 shall be made by means of a request signed by the judicial police officer and delivered or addressed to the secretary of the commission, who shall issue a receipt. This appli…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation of the committee provided for in article 16-2

Article R15-9

…the secretary of the commission forwards a copy to the public prosecutor at the Cour de cassation and to the public prosecutor who took the decision to suspend or withdraw authorisation. The applica…

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