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

Article 919-115

The amount of exceptional aid may not exceed €50,000.The cumulative amount of the exceptional aid and the subsidies received by the foreign sales company under decree no. 2020-371 of 30 March 2020 rel…

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

Article 919-116

Exceptional aid is awarded in the form of a grant.The decision to award the aid or, where applicable, the agreement signed with the foreign sales company, sets out the terms and conditions for payment…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Specific rules for calculating sums held in the automatic account for promotion abroad in 2023

Article 919-118

For the year 2023, the amount of the sums calculated for foreign sales companies for commercial representation in cinemas under the conditions set out in articles 721-12, 721-13 and 721-14 is increase…

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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 General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Purchases for resale

Article 1115

Subject to the provisions of article 1020, acquisitions of real estate, goodwill and shares in real estate companies made by taxable persons within the meaning of article 256 A are exempt from transfe…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Calculation of total distributed income

Article 115

1. In the event of a merger or demerger of companies, the allocation of securities, sums or values to the members of the transferring company in consideration for the cancellation of the securities of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
12° : Tax reduction for certain overseas investments

Article 199 undecies C

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French General Tax CodeIn force
12° : Tax reduction for certain overseas investments

Article 199 undecies D

I. - 1. The sum of the income tax reductions mentioned in Articles 199 undecies A, 199 undecies B and 199 undecies C and the carryovers of these tax reductions, which may be offset for a taxpayer in r…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Removal credit.

Article 114

1. Receivers of Customs may allow goods to be removed as and when they are checked and before the obligations laid down in a to c of 1 of Article 113 have been fulfilled, subject to a duly bonded tend…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Educational assistance

Article 1184

The provisional measures provided for in the first paragraph of article 375-5 of the Civil Code, as well as the information measures provided for in article 1183 of this code, may only be taken, excep…

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