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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Production advances

Article 311-69

The amount of the advance may not exceed 90% of the sum to which the production company will be entitled when the work is included on the list of reference works. This sum is evaluated taking into acc…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter I: DEFINITION OF NEED

Article R3111-3

The concession granting authority may not reject a tender on the grounds that it does not comply with the technical and functional specifications if the tenderer proves in its tender, by any appropria…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Individual policy form

Article R814-3

…six months and handed over, at their request, to the police and gendarmerie units.This transmission may be carried out in dematerialised form..

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Operation.

Article L2541-3

The Town Council may also decide to hold regular meetings on certain specified days; but, in this case, the matters to be discussed and decided are also, except in cases of urgency, communicated at le…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Operation.

Article L4422-3

…ital of the territorial collectivity of Corsica. However, by decision of its standing committee, it may meet in any other place in Corsica. It meets as of right on the first Thursday following its ele…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L5125-30

Cooperative societies of dispensing pharmacists may not refuse their services in an emergency to non-associated dispensing pharmacists and to all public or private establishments where patients are tr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Financial penalties imposed by the Regional Health Agency

Article L5472-3

Where a financial penalty imposed under this chapter may be combined with a criminal fine imposed on the offender for the same acts, the total amount of the fines and financial penalties imposed shall…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medical transport.

Article L6312-3

…consumer affairs, the economy and finance, and social security. Failure to comply with these rates may result in the withdrawal of approval.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Occupational risk prevention workers in inter-company occupational health services.

Article R4623-39

…ational health and prevention service does not have the necessary technical skills to intervene, it may call on the services of a professional risk prevention consultant registered in accordance with…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Commissioning authorisation.

Article R6312-36

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency may, after obtaining the opinion of the Health Transport Sub-Committee, decide to grant other authorisations during the same calendar year, in accord…

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