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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Tax on admission prices to screenings organised by cinema operators

Article L115-3

…wo screenings were organised. However, for the months of December and January, the tax is due until 31 December and from 1 January respectively.The tax is not due if the monthly amount per cinema is l…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Rights and obligations attached to plant variety certificates

Article L623-18

…amount of royalties is set by the judicial authority, determined in accordance with Article L. 623-31.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 6: Measures relating to the intensity of public aid

Article 916-49

…ovisual or multimedia works for which applications for aid are submitted between 1 October 2020 and 31 December 2021 and for which it is justified that there are particular production or marketing dif…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Tax system

Article 575

…l selling price in mainland France of manufactured tobacco is established for each product group by 31 January each year at the latest, on the basis of data relating to all units released for consumpt…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to each medical profession.

Article R4113-15

…mentioned in the first paragraph or in 1° to 4° of the second paragraph of article 5 of the law of 31 December 1990 is prohibited to any supplier, distributor or manufacturer of products related to t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Compensation for victims

Article L1142-16

…ubstituted for it, in respect of the same head of loss and within the limits provided for inarticle 31 of the aforementioned law no. 85-677 of 5 July 1985. They must act within two years of the claim…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Investment income

Article R343-16

…R. 343-14, for undertakings carrying on both the operations referred to in 1° and 2° of Article L. 310-1 whose technical provisions relating to the operations referred to in 1° of Article L. 310-1, c…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Search and recording

Article R541-1

…RTICLES IN THEIR REACTION R. 512-1 to R. 512-5, R. 512-7 to R. 512-21, R. 512-23, R. 512-30, R. 512-31, R. 512-35, R. 512-37 and R. 512-38Resulting from décret n° 2018-1116 du 10 décembre 2018

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-13-2

…pean Union pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal pr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Crédit Mutuel.

Article R512-19

…latter, under the conditions and with the same consequences as those provided for in Article L. 511-31.

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