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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Lapse of financial assistance

Article 121-8

Unless otherwise stipulated, decisions to award financial assistance are subject to the project or expenditure being completed within four years.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Lapse of financial assistance

Article 121-9

The periods mentioned in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Lapse of financial assistance

Article 121-7

Unless otherwise specified, decisions to grant financial assistance shall automatically lapse on expiry of a period of four years if all or part of the assistance has not been paid because the benefic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Risk assessment

Article R4452-12

A joint order by the ministers for labour and agriculture specifies the procedures for risk assessment and for calculating and measuring levels of artificial optical radiation.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Operation

Article LO6221-12

Meetings of the Territorial Council are public. However, at the request of five members or the President, the Territorial Council may decide without debate, by an absolute majority of the members pres…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Operation

Article LO6321-12

Meetings of the Territorial Council are public. However, at the request of five members or the President, the Territorial Council may decide without debate, by an absolute majority of the members pres…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Sub-section 2: Special provisions applicable to inter-municipal tourist offices constituted in the form of a public industrial and commercial establishment.

Article R134-12

Articles R. 133-1 to R. 133-18 apply to inter-municipal tourist offices set up as a public industrial and commercial establishment. For the application of the articles mentioned in the first paragraph…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Management of copyright and related rights by an organisation

Article R324-12

…eriod provided for in Article R. 324-7, no agreement has been reached between the parties, the mediator may, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, either make recommendations to the pa…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Assessment and certification.

Article R6113-12

…edure for the health care organisations and bodies mentioned in articles L. 6113-4 and L. 6147-8 is to assess the quality and safety of the care provided and of all the services delivered, by departme…

AI translation · Updated 1 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Allocation of working hours

Article L3123-12

Where the employer asks the employee to modify the distribution of his working hours, even though the employment contract has not provided for the cases and nature of such modifications, the employee'…

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