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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 411-77

…or in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 411-79

The initial contribution from the publisher(s) must:1° Be made in cash in the form of investment in producer's shares or in the form of a contract for the purchase of rights to make the work available…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 411-72

Selective financial aid is awarded for the production of quality short-length audiovisual works in order to improve their financing conditions and encourage their exposure on television and on-demand…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 411-78

To be eligible for selective financial support, short-length audiovisual works must receive an initial contribution from one or more television or on-demand audiovisual media service publishers.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Transfers of building lease rights and similar agreements

Article 725

…e, is subject to registration duty determined in accordance with the tariff provided for in article 719 (1). Duty is levied on the amount of the sum or indemnity stipulated by the transferor in his fa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Multilateral trading facilities

Article R764-7

…R. 424-3 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from Decree no. 2017-733 of 4 May 2017.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Pure and simple acceptance of the succession.

Article 784

Acts that are purely conservatory or supervisory and acts of provisional administration may be performed without entailing acceptance of the succession, if the successor has not taken the title or cap…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Determination of taxable income

Article 73

…% of the profit in excess of €52,985, where this is greater than or equal to €52,985 and less than €79,478; > d) To the sum of €41,222 plus 20% of the profit in excess of this limit, where this is gre…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 793

…onor or the deceased, where they were acquired for valuable consideration on or after 5 September 1979.4° Shares in agricultural landholding groups and those in agricultural landholding groups, create…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Normal operating mode

Article 726

…sets consist, or have consisted during the year preceding the disposal of the holdings in question, mainly of real estate or real estate rights located in France or holdings in legal entities, whateve…

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