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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Direct production allowances for production conditions

Article 211-75

I. - For delegated production companies, the amount of the direct allocation is equal to 25% of the amount invested. This rate is increased to 50% for works in the animation genre.II. - For other prod…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary section: The single body responsible for business formalities

Article R123-7

…ations entre le public et l'administration are, unless otherwise provided for in this article, applicable to exchanges between the single body, on the one hand, and the bodies receiving declarations a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-13-7

…Article L. 229-7 of the Envi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-71

…anent employees in the company and its direct or indirect subsidiaries whose registered office is located in France, or at least five thousand permanent employees in the company and its direct or indi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Right to title

Article L611-7

…nform the employee who is the author of such an invention when the latter is the subject of an application for an industrial property title and when the title is issued, where applicable. The conditio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General principles

Article L1611-7

I. - Local authorities and their public establishments may entrust a third party with the examination of applications and the preparation of decisions to award financial assistance and benefits that t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Tasks of the agency

Article 706-160

…he country and by court order:1° The management of all assets, whatever their nature, seized, confiscated or subject to a protective measure in the course of criminal proceedings, which are entrusted…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1243-7

…t to prior written authorisation by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, after obtaining the opinion of the Director General of the Agence d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-17

…ce enforcement judge who proceeds in accordance with the provisions of Article 712-6. If the person cannot be brought before the sentence enforcement judge immediately, he or she must be brought befor…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Scope of free transfer duties

Article 750 ter

…unds, interest shares, property or rights making up a trust defined in article 792-0 bis and income capitalised therein, debts and generally all French or foreign transferable securities of any kind w…

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