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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation to operate as a mobile business

Article R212-3

The authorisation to operate a cinema in the form of a touring activity is granted on the basis of the geographical complementarity of the cinematographic offer presented by the application with regar…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Entering sums in the automatic cinema production account

Article 211-37

…211-36, the sums representing the automatic financial aid to which the producti…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: General rules

Article L2112-3

…rch and development to be carried out, production, marketing and its conditions, transport, use and maintenance, throughout the life of the product, work or service, from the acquisition of raw materi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the freezing of assets and the prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L562-3

The Minister responsible for the economy may decide, for a renewable period of six months, to freeze funds and economic resources:1° Belonging to, owned, held or controlled by natural or legal persons…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Conditions relating to aid intensity

Article 311-19

Derogations from the 50% threshold may be granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, up to a limit of 60% and at the justified request of the production company, f…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 4: Specific elements of the private project management assignment

Article R2431-32

When the construction methods or techniques or the industrial products to be used mean that the economic operator responsible for the works or the supplier of industrial products must be involved from…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Advertising.

Article L5122-3

…ion referred to in article L. 5121-9-1 or one of the registrations referred to in articles L. 5121-13 and L. 5121-14-1 or which benefit from a parallel import authorisation pursuant to article L. 5124…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Simplified exchange of information between departments pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 18 December 2006

Article R49-38

The departments and units referred to in Article 695-9-31 may postpone their response if they are unable to provide the information requested within the time limit set pursuant to Article R. 49-37. Th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXI: Witness protection

Article R53-32

…record of the hearing and the report provided for in the second and third paragraphs of Article R. 53-27 are placed in a file separate from the case file, which is kept by the public prosecutor. This…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-30

…to the prefect for the purposes of amending the list of bathing waters provided for in article D. 1332-17 and to the director general of the regional health agency.

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