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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article 123-2

…utomatic accounts are known as: 1° For the allocation of automatic financial aid for the production and preparation of long-term cinematographic works: "compte automatique production cinéma"; 2° For t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Appointment

Article 131-2

The committees include an equal number of women and men as full and alternate members. If there is an odd number of seats to be filled, the difference between the number of women and the number of men…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Ethics

Article 132-4

…mmittee who has a conflict of interest in relation to a matter on the agenda of a committee meeting and who withdraws for the adoption of the resolution on that matter is prohibited, for the duration…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Operation

Article 133-3

If a member is unable to sit for a period of more than one month during his or her term of office for exceptional reasons, in particular due to requirements connected with filming or the promotion of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article R421-1

By virtue of 5° of article L. 421-1, the following are punishable by the penalties laid down in article L. 422-1 : 1° The fact, for an operator of a cinema, of setting up a cinema access scheme withou…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Ethics

Article 132-5

…committees' work or their ethical obligations, or that could call into question the opinions given and decisions taken.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Penalty procedure

Article R423-16

…o a subsequent meeting. If necessary, it may ask the rapporteur to carry out further investigations and then set a deadline for the submission of the additional report.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions for payment and repayment of financial aid

Article 121-6

Where the aid to be repaid is automatic financial aid in the form of an investment allowance, the amount repaid is charged to the automatic account as soon as the sums concerned have not reached the e…

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

Article 211-113

Cinematographic works that have received aid for audiovisual production are not eligible for post-production aid unless the conditions set out in 2° of article…

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

Article 211-123

…e within a particular genre defined each year by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée and have artistic merit.This aid is awarded once a year, for a maximum of three works.

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