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

Article 712-9

The amount of aid is set after consultation with the costing committee set up for the allocation of aid to world cinemas under the provisions of article 712-1. It may not exceed the amount of support…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Centre d'accueil et de soins hospitaliers de Nanterre.

Article R6147-98

The documents attached to the budget mentioned in article R. 6147-95 describe all the centre's activities. In particular, the following documents are attached 1° The opinion of the establishment's soc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Subscription of shares

Article L214-97

Except in the case of inheritance, liquidation of community property between spouses, or transfer either to a spouse or to an ascendant or descendant, the transfer of shares to a third party, in any c…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Supporting documents and other evidence of the absence of grounds for exclusion

Article R2343-8

The purchaser accepts as sufficient proof that the applicant is not in one of the cases of exclusion mentioned in Article L. 2341-1, Article L. 2141-4, 1° of Article L. 2341-3 and Article L. 2141-5, t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Credits

Article R753-9

…and column of the same table: " Applicable articles In the wording resulting from the decreeR. 313-3n° 2005-1007 of 2 August 2005R. 313-4No. 2021-1887 of 29 December 2021R. 313-5no. 2023-369 of 11 May…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-8

…o later than fifteen days after the deadline set for its adoption by articles L. 1612-2 and L. 1612-9 Failing this, the provisions of article L. 1612-2 shall apply.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval procedure

Article R1114-9

National approval may be granted by the Minister for Health to associations which have either at least 5,000 individually paid-up members, or individually paid-up members spread over at least four reg…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES

Article LO6253-9

The Executive Board may not deliberate unless the majority of its members are present. If, on the day fixed by the notice convening the meeting, the Executive Board does not meet in sufficient number…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Dissolution and liquidation of the company

Article R6223-91

When the dissolution of the société de participations financières de profession libérale de biologistes médicaux does not result in its removal from the roll of the order(s) to which it belongs, the l…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Choice of the most economically advantageous tender

Article L2152-9

Among the award criteria for global contracts mentioned in Article L. 2171-1, the purchaser shall take account of the proportion of the contract performance that the tenderer undertakes to entrust to…

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