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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 231-26

…231-27, or awarded pursuant to Article…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Additional rules applicable to bank and payment services brokers and their agents

Article R519-28

The intermediaries referred to in article R. 519-27 above are required to analyse a sufficient number of contracts on offer to be able to base an objective analysis of the market and recommend or prop…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 43 bis

Companies which, having subscribed to the initial capital of the sociétés immobilières conventionnées referred to in Order no. 58-876 of 24 September 1958 or to their capital increases, have waived, w…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 5: Exceptional support measure for artistic agents, communications agents and press officers working in the film industry

Article 919-107

The amount of exceptional aid may not exceed an amount corresponding to a percentage of the loss of turnover suffered in 2020 less the amount of aid received in respect of 2020 pursuant to Decree no.…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Additional regional tax on tourist tax

Article L4332-4

An additional tax of 34% to the tourist tax or flat-rate tourist tax levied in the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Alpes-Maritimes by the communes mentioned in Article L. 2333-26 as well as b…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1147

A mention of the divorce is made in the margin of the marriage certificate and the birth certificate of each of the spouses, at the request of the interested party or his or her lawyer, on the basis o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Publication and proof of judgments

Article 1082

A note of the divorce or legal separation shall be made in the margin of the marriage certificate and the birth certificate of each of the spouses, in view of an extract of the decision containing onl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Commercial agents.

Article R134-5

When applying for registration, a natural person married under a legal or contractual community regime must provide proof, in accordance with the model defined by order of the Minister of Justice, tha…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations relating to the freezing of assets

Article R773-41

I. - In application of 8° of article 6-2 of Organic Law no. 99-209 of 19 March 1999, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, articles R. 562-1 to R. 562-9 are applicable by operation of law in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R2143-1

For the application of this chapter: 1° Where the embryo or embryos referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 2143-1 have been conceived as a result of a sperm donation, an oocyte donation or a…

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