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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-29

To be eligible for rewriting grants, authors and their collaborators must be French nationals or equivalent.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 5: Aid for collective operations

Article 322-29

The amount of aid for collective operations may not exceed 50% of the expenditure mentioned in article…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Additional compensation measures

Article 916-29

For each establishment, the amount of the direct allocation is determined by applying the percentage corresponding to the establishment's market share to the amount of funds allocated to direct alloca…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Exceptional aid to help offset the fall in activity in 2020

Article 919-29

The exceptional aid is awarded in the form of a grant.The aid is the subject of an agreement concluded with the distribution company. This agreement sets out the terms and conditions for the payment o…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Implementation of the price variation clause

Article R2191-29

When advances are reimbursed by deduction from the sums due as a deposit or balance, the deduction is made after application of the price variation clause to the initial amount of the deposit or balan…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Reciprocal shareholdings

Article L233-29

A joint stock company may not own shares in another company, if the latter holds a fraction of its capital greater than 10%. Failing agreement between the companies concerned to regularise the situati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Partial contribution of assets

Article L236-29

The company or companies benefiting from the contributions resulting from the transaction referred to in Article L. 236-27 and the company contributing part of its assets shall be jointly and severall…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Experts involved in voluntary sales of furniture by public auction

Article L321-29

The operators of voluntary sales of furniture by public auction mentioned in Article L. 321-4, bailiffs and notaries may, under their sole responsibility, enlist the help of experts, whatever their ap…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Receipts, warrants and storage receipts

Article L522-29

The endorsement of the receipt and warrant, transferred together or separately, must be dated. The endorsement of the warrant separate from the receipt must, in addition, state the full amount, in cap…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: The company during the observation period.

Article L622-29

The opening judgment does not render due and payable claims that have not fallen due on the date of its pronouncement. Any clause to the contrary is deemed unwritten.

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