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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Direct allowances

Article 411-20

Direct allocations are subject to the same payment and repayment conditions as investment allocations, of which they are an accessory.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Exercise of control

Article R612-29-4

The request for an opinion referred to in IV of Article L. 612-23-1 must be sent to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution no later than two months and no earlier than six months before…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-24

…appointed for this purpose by the Minister of Justice, shall assist in the application of Article 230-23. This magistrate may act ex officio or at the request of private individuals. He shall have d…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Business management

Article 1301-4

The personal interest of the manager in taking on the business of others does not exclude the application of the rules of business management.In this case, the burden of commitments, expenses and dama…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 6: Suspension of the procedure for examining applications for business authorisations provided for in article L. 752-1-2

Article R752-29-4

The communications provided for in articles R. 752-29-2 and R. 752-29-3 between the prefect, on the one hand, and the presidents of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Unjust enrichment

Article 1303-4

The impoverishment ascertained on the day of the expenditure, and the enrichment as it remains on the day of the claim, are valued on the day of the judgment. In the event of bad faith on the part of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-40

…the liberty and custody judge, seised at any time by reasoned request from the investigating judge, may, by reasoned decision, authorise that the following do not appear in the case file: 1° The date,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Agency agreement

Article L132-20-4

…thorise a signal distributor to represent a work under the conditions mentioned in article L. 122-2-4 may only be exercised by a collective management organisation.If this organisation is governed by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Advanced therapy medicinal products prepared on an individual basis

Article R5121-201-4

…ues and cells mentioned in Article R. 1211-19 and in the good practices provided for in Article L. 1245-6, or those relating to blood and its components as provided for in Articles R. 1221-36 et seq,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2a: Farm-saved seed

Article L623-24-4

…med to have been marketed and is considered to be an infringement within the meaning of article L. 623-25.

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