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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and terms of allocation

Article 919-111

Exceptional grants are awarded to foreign sales companies that:1° Meet the conditions set out in article 721-4;2° Regularly sell cinematographic works abroad.Companies that have marketed abroad at lea…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Control

Article R5132-1-13

…d by any means that confers a date certain on receipt of this information. On receipt of this notification, the organisation has a period of six weeks in which to submit the supporting documents reque…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE

Article R632-1

Except in cases of absolute urgency, the administrative authority competent to order the expulsion of a foreign national pursuant to article L. 631-1 is the département prefect and, in Paris, the poli…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: MEASURES APPLICABLE FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF A DECISION REQUIRING THE LEAVING OF FRENCH TERRITORY BY AN ASYLUM SEEKER WHOSE RIGHT TO MAINTAINMENT HAS ENDED

Article R752-1

…l seeking asylum under house arrest pursuant to article L. 752-1 is the département prefect and, in Paris, the police prefect.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Research mentioned in 1° of Article L. 1121-1 requiring express authorisation involving the products mentioned in Articles L. 1125-1 to L. 1125-3

Article R1125-13-1

…(EC) 1223/2009 setting out the list of substances that may not be used in cosmetic products is applicable to the composition of cosmetic products used in research involving the human body.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article L612-16-1

An applicant who has not complied with the priority period instituted by Article 4 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in respect of the National Institute of Industrial…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes II

Article Annexe II-10 (art. A212-167)

EQUIVALENCES 1. The State Sports Teaching Certificates mentioned in column 1 of the table below are automatically accepted as equivalent to the State Sports Teaching Certificates mentioned in articles…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VI: Social institutions

Article 1074

1 Civil status certificates, notarial certificates and any other documents relating to the implementation of the law of 12 April 1941 concerning the service of retirement pensions in the navy are exem…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: The departments and units referred to in article 15-1

Article R15-19

The categories of active services of the national police within which officers and agents of the judicial police perform their usual duties and whose jurisdiction is exercised within the remit of one…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article R15-17-1

…to those retired national police officers and those retired national gendarmerie military personnel called up to serve in the national police operational reserve or the national gendarmerie operationa…

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