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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Feasibility assistance

Article 632-6

…nted for the feasibility phase of a project complies, depending on the nature of the expenditure concerned, with the intensity rates provided for in 5 (c and d), 6 and 7 of Article 25 of Commission Re…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Acts concerning the protection of family members

Article A444-80

The examination of the accounts of the mandatary appointed under a mandate for future protection (number 39 of table 5) gives rise to the collection of a fee based on the highest chapter, in revenue o…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Inventions by civil servants and public officials.

Article Annexe art. R611-14-1

…ers, engineers, assistant engineers and research technicians governed by decree no. 83-1260 of 30 December 1983 as amended.-Research teachers governed by decree no. 84-431 of 6 June 1984 as amended an…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Exemption

Article 1594 H

…d by first-time buyers who have taken out state-subsidised loans (PAP) between 1 July 1981 and 31 December 1984 and who are unable to meet their repayments, when the first-time buyers who sell these h…

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French Commercial codeIn force
APPENDIX 7-2 (APPENDIX TO ARTICLES A. 713-8 AND A. 713-11)

Article Annexe 7-2

ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF TERRITORIAL CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRYYou can consult the JORF n° 0234 of 7 October 2021, text n° 36, at the following address: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/download/pd…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Companies required to register

Article L123-36

…article L. 134-1; 3° Persons in the trades and crafts sector mentioned in the article 19 de la loi n° 96-603 du 5 juillet 1996 relative au développement et à la promotion du commerce et de l'artisana…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Companies required to register

Article L123-38

It is an offence to give, in bad faith, inaccurate or incomplete information with a view to registering, changing the situation of or removing from the national register of companies a person mentione…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Companies required to register

Article L123-37

…° of Article L. 123-36, all the information, deeds and documents appearing in the register of commerce and companies pursuant to II of article L. 123-1 and any specific legislative or regulatory provi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transmission of information by other persons

Article R222-36

Associations, companies and licensees shall provide the sports agent who put them in contact with a view to concluding one of the contracts mentioned in articles L. 222-5 and L. 222-7 with a copy of s…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transmission of information by other persons

Article R222-34

Where there is a professional league, it will, at the request of the Sports Agents Delegate, provide the documents required to monitor the activities of sports agents, in particular the contracts it a…

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