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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 312-17

Aid is awarded in the form of a grant, the amount of which is set as follows:1° For concept aid for fiction projects, the amount of aid is set at €7,500;2° For concept aid for animation projects, the…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Technical and safety guarantees

Article A322-41

The modification of an establishment existing on 6 July 1999, which is intended to affect all or part of the equipment provided for in articles A. 322-21, A. 322-23, A. 322-26, A. 322-28, A. 322-30, A…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Special provisions for certain investigative measures

Article D47-1-6

For the application of articles 694-25 and 694-26, where a European investigation decision requires a person detained on national territory to be temporarily transferred to the territory of the execut…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Procedures for the examination of asylum applications by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons in the event of house arrest or detention

Article L753-5

At the request of the administrative authority, and without prejudice to the cases provided for in c and d of 2° of Article L. 542-2, the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Per…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Procedures for the examination of asylum applications by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons in the event of house arrest or detention

Article L753-6

Without prejudice to other surveillance measures decided by the administrative or judicial authority, detention is terminated if the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Indexation

Article L112-3

By way of derogation from the provisions of article L. 112-1 and the first and second paragraphs of article L. 112-2 and in accordance with procedures defined by decree, the following may be indexed t…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article L351-7

Sont applicables dans les îles Wallis et Futuna, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l'article L. 351-8, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Directors

Article L533-27

Investment firms shall devote the necessary human and financial resources to the training of the persons mentioned in I of Article L. 533-26.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Placement under electronic surveillance

Article R57-10

Home detention under electronic surveillance of persons under house arrest with electronic surveillance ordered by the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge and that of persons sentence…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Destination of ashes

Article L2223-18-2

At the request of the person entitled to provide for the funeral, the ashes are in their entirety:- either kept in the cinerary urn, which may be buried in a grave or placed in a columbarium cell or s…

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