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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Specific rules for calculating sums held in the automatic account for promotion abroad in 2023

Article 919-118

For the year 2023, the amount of the sums calculated for foreign sales companies for commercial representation in cinemas under the conditions set out in articles 721-12, 721-13 and 721-14 is increase…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article A43-5-1

Nature of the assignment carried out Amount of the flat-rate indemnity per assignment (expressed in units of value) Amount natural persons Amount associations To proceed with the reminder of the oblig…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Medical biology

Article L6433-1

Articles L. 6211-3 and L. 6211-3-1 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna in the wording resulting respectively from Law no. 2023-379 of 19 May 2023 on improving access to care by trusting healthcare pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-55-8

When the composition pénale includes the therapeutic injunction provided for in 17° of article 41-2, this is carried out in accordance with the provisions of code de la santé publique, in particular t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Control of work permits

Article R5221-44

When a temporary employment agency has checked that the work permit exists under the conditions set out in article R. 5221-41, this formality is deemed to have been completed for the duration of valid…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article R53-40-1

The separate file and register provided for in article 230-40 shall be kept by the president of the judicial court or the judge delegated by him. They may only be communicated to the liberty and custo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Publication and filing of sector agreements

Article D7343-91

Declarations of denunciation, made in application of article L. 7343-41, and declarations of opposition to approval, made in application of article L. 7343-49, are filed, in accordance with the proced…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Procedure

Article R321-42

In the case provided for in Article R. 321-41, the mediator may also issue a recommendation, which shall be notified to the parties by any means capable of establishing proof of the date of receipt. W…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: PROCEDURE BEFORE THE FRENCH OFFICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF REFUGEES AND APATRIDS

Article R531-35

When, in the cases and under the conditions set out in article L. 531-41, the interested party intends to submit a request for reconsideration, he or she must make a new application for registration w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition pénale

Article R15-33-48

The public prosecutor may inform the police or gendarmerie services involved in the investigation that the penal composition has been validated, in particular when it includes one of the measures prov…

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