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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Payment Security Observatory

Article R142-23

The Chairman of the Payment Card Security Observatory is appointed from among its members by the Minister for the Economy. The Chairman's term of office is three years and is renewable. In the event o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-23

Where the confiscation order relates to a sum of money expressed in a foreign currency, the criminal court converts the amount to be confiscated into euros at the exchange rate in force on the date on…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments and organisations

Article R1243-23

Authorised establishments or organisations shall make available to the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé updated data concerning staff, equipment and any information…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Appeals against the decision of the departmental committee.

Article L752-23

One month before the date on which the project is due to open to the public, the beneficiary must send the representative of the State in the department, the mayor and the chairman of the public estab…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VIII : Taxation of capital gains on the disposal of building land

Article 238 undecies

When the transfer of undeveloped land or a similar asset within the meaning of A of article 1594-0 G is remunerated by the handover of buildings or parts of buildings to be erected on this land, taxat…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Advances

Article 232-20

When a cinema integrated into a circuit is transferred to another circuit during the amortisation period of an advance, the repayment of this advance continues to be charged to the automatic cinema op…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Performance of the credit agreement

Article R341-23

A failure by the lender or credit intermediary to comply with the obligations relating to informing the borrower in the event of a change in the borrowing rate set out in Article L. 313-46 is punishab…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Control and prohibition of collective water misting systems

Article R1335-23

The costs of monitoring the water quality of the systems, particularly when the monitoring is carried out following the reporting of one or more cases of legionellosis potentially linked to the system…

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

Article 231-5

The amount of the direct allocation is obtained by multiplying the circulation index by the ratio between the amount of credits allocated to direct allocations and the sum of the circulation indices o…

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

Article 411-23

Applications for aid may be submitted:1° Either by the writer-director who wrote or co-wrote the script for the short film he or she is directing;2° Or by the production company.

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