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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5151-4

Insofar as their use is necessary for the purposes defined in article R. 5151-3, the categories of personal data that may be recorded in the automated processing are as follows: 1° Data from the perso…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations

Article L452-4

An association taking legal action under articles L. 452-2 and L. 452-3 may bring a civil action before the examining magistrate or the court in the place where the defendant has its registered office…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Calculation for foreign operations

Article 211-31

…n article…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Calculation for foreign operations

Article 211-32

The rate of calculation is set at 66% of the amount of the sums definitively entered in the automatic foreign promotion account of the foreign sales company.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Surrender of the wanted person

Article 695-37

…ublic Prosecutor may order the arrest of the person concerned and his committal to prison. Article 74-2 then applies. The powers of the public prosecutor and the liberty and custody judge are then exe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Surrender of the wanted person

Article 695-38

The provisions of Article 695-37 do not preclude the Investigating Chamber, after ruling on the execution of the European arrest warrant, from temporarily postponing the surrender for serious humanita…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Surrender of the wanted person

Article 695-39

Where the requested person is being prosecuted in France or has already been sentenced there and must serve a sentence there for an act other than that covered by the European arrest warrant, the Inve…

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

Article 311-18

The amount of aid for the production and preparation of a given audiovisual work may not exceed 40% of the final cost of that work and, in the case of an international co-production, 40% of the French…

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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 Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Receipts, warrants and storage receipts

Article L522-35

Public establishments authorised to carry out credit transactions may receive warrants as bills of exchange, with exemption from one of the signatures required by their articles of association.

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