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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 211-3

To be eligible for financial assistance for production and preparation, production companies must meet the following conditions:1° Be established in France;2° Have chairmen, directors or managers, as…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Grants and other revenue allocated by the Local Finance Committee

Article R2334-39

When the local investment support grant contributes to the financing of investment projects, the provisions of articles R. 2334-22 to R. 2334-26, the second paragraph of article R. 2334-27 as well as…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Redistribution and inter-professional fund for access to law and justice

Article R444-37

The board of directors of the fund management company is made up of five directors appointed under the conditions set out in article L. 225-17, in accordance with the following procedures: 1° One dire…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Use of residential premises

Article R1331-37

I.-A dwelling is used in conditions that clearly lead to over-occupation in accordance witharticle L. 1331-23 and is therefore unfit for habitation within the meaning ofarticle L. 1331-22: -when it is…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

Article L142-3

…with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and by the loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Organisation

Article L2511-3

…daries of these arrondissements as they stood on 1 January 1983, the date of publication of the loi n° 82-1169 du 31 décembre 1982 relative à l'organisation administrative de Paris, Marseille, Lyon et…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TRANSFER OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FROM THE DEPARTMENTS AND REGIONS TO THE TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES OF GUYANA AND MARTINIQUE

Article L7331-3

…creation of the territorial authorities of French Guiana and Martinique constituted pursuant to loi n° 2011-884 du 27 juillet 2011 relative aux collectivités territoriales de Guyane et de Martinique e…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 8: Departmental Commission for Intercommunal Cooperation

Article R5211-38

Except in the cases provided for by IV of Article L. 5210-1-1 and by Articles 60 and 61 of the loi n° 2010-1563 du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme des collectivités territoriales, decisions are taken by a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Discipline of sworn goods brokers Discipline of sworn goods brokers

Article L131-32

Any breach of the laws and regulations relating to his profession or his duties as a sworn goods broker and any breach of probity or honour, even relating to facts unrelated to the tasks entrusted to…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic cinema production account

Article 211-39

In accordance with the…

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