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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the classification committee

Article R211-33

The Young Audiences College comprises four full members and eight alternate members, aged between eighteen and twenty-four, appointed by the Minister for Culture as follows:1° One full member and two…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the classification committee

Article R211-35

The full members and alternate members of the classification committee are appointed for a period of three years, renewable twice, by order of the Minister for Culture.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation of the classification committee

Article R211-36

The Classification Committee may only sit validly if at least fourteen members are present.The members of the Classification Committee may not delegate their vote.Votes are cast by secret ballot. Howe…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Entering into an innovation partnership

Article R2172-30

The purchaser may not award the innovation partnership on the basis of the initial tenders without negotiation. It shall negotiate the initial tenders and all subsequent tenders with a view to improvi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Social action

Article L2573-32

The communes and their groupings may create public establishments, called communal centres and inter-communal centres for social action, to intervene in matters of social action, in compliance with lo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Economic intervention

Article L4424-30

The coordination committee for the industrial development of Corsica is made up of one-third representatives of the State, one-third representatives of the Assembly of Corsica in proportion to the gro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER Ia: Provisions governing the public company referred to in Article L. 1611-3-2 known as Agence France Locale

Article D1871-3

I.-The provisions of Section 7 of Chapter I of Title I of Book VI of Part One mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the righ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific rules relating to third-country investment firms

Article D532-37

I. - On receipt of an application for authorisation as referred to in Article L. 532-49, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall check that it is complete and, if so, shall proceed…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific rules relating to third-country investment firms

Article D532-36

The application for authorisation referred to in Article L. 532-49 shall include : 1° The name of the authority responsible for supervising the third-country undertaking in its home country. If severa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific rules relating to third-country investment firms

Article D532-39

I. - Where, pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 47 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of 15 May 2014, a branch authorised in France of a third-country firm benefiting from an equivalence decision provided…

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