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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Pre-implementation and post-implementation aid committees

Article 211-142

A committee is responsible for examining applications for pre-production support submitted for a director's first feature-length film. It has seven members, including two co-chairmen.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board

Article L22-10-18

…ing on a regulated market, the number of members of the Management Board referred to in Article L. 225-58 may be increased to seven by the articles of association.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Scope of collective bargaining.

Article L3121-32

A collective agreement at company or establishment level or, failing that, a branch agreement may fix a period of seven consecutive days constituting a week for the application of this chapter.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Receipt of applications for recognition and monitoring of convictions and probation decisions

Article 764-21

Within seven days of receiving the request, the public prosecutor shall refer the matter to the territorially competent sentence enforcement judge pursuant to Article 712-10 of the request, together w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 80-5

…to continue the operations provided for in Articles 706-95 [By Constitutional Council decision no. 2019-778 DC of 21 March 2019, the reference "60-4" must be replaced by the reference "706-95"], [The…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Obligations incumbent on the person entered in the file

Article R50-43

The public prosecutor who registers the person in the file pursuant to 1° to 4° of article 706-25-4, or the examining magistrate pursuant to 5° of article 706-25-4, shall at the same time register the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-43-2

The provisions of Articles 1 to 19 and 34 of Regulation (EU) No 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment and its annexes constitute the i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5141-9

…istration of homeopathic veterinary medicinal products referred to in Article 86 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018 may be amended, suspended or withdrawn if the conditions laid down in Art…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Livret A passbook accounts

Article L743-11

…no. 2014-366 of 24 March 2014 L. 221-5, with the exception of its third and fifth paragraphsLaw no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 221-6 Law no. 2022-1726 of 30 December 2022L. 221-7 Law no. 2017-1837 of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Livret A passbook accounts

Article L742-11

…no. 2014-366 of 24 March 2014 L. 221-5, with the exception of its third and fifth paragraphsLaw no. 2019-486 of 22 May 2019 L. 221-6 Law no. 2022-1726 of 30 December 2022L. 221-7 Law no. 2017-1837 of…

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