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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Application for approval

Article R212-52

If the President of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée remains silent for more than three months on an application for approval, this will be deemed to constitute a decision of accepta…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Application for approval

Article R212-57

The application for amending approval shall be accompanied by all documents relating to the substantial change(s) envisaged. When examining the application, all or some of the economic data listed in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Application for approval

Article R212-53

When a cinema operator has already set up an approved cinema access scheme, it must send the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée any new application for approval no later t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Approval of works

Article D332-5

In the case of international co-productions, payments made in execution of production association contracts may not exceed 50% of the participation provided by companies that are nationals of a Member…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Abnormally low tenders

Article L2152-5

An abnormally low bid is a bid whose price is clearly undervalued and likely to compromise the proper performance of the contract.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Public billing portal

Article L2192-5

A shared solution, made available by the State and known as the "public invoicing portal", enables invoices to be submitted, received and transmitted in electronic form. To implement the obligations l…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Public billing portal

Article L2392-5

A pooled solution, made available by the State and known as the "public invoicing portal", enables invoices to be submitted, received and transmitted electronically. The following shall use the public…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with instalments

Article R2113-5

The services of the firm tranche must form a coherent whole; the same applies to the services of each optional tranche, taking into account the services of all the previous tranches.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Abnormally low tenders

Article R2152-5

A purchaser who finds that a tender is abnormally low as a result of the tenderer having received State aid may reject the tender on this ground alone only if the tenderer is unable to demonstrate, wi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Proof of heirship.

Article 730-5

Any person who, knowingly and in bad faith, relies on an inaccurate deed of notoriety shall incur the penalties for concealment provided for in Article 778, without prejudice to damages.

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