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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exceptional aid to help offset the loss of revenue resulting from the introduction of the health pass

Article 919-56

To obtain the aid, distribution companies must submit a form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée electronically by 31 January 2022 at the latest.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Titre Emploi-Service Entreprise.

Article L1273-5

Employers who use the "Titre Emploi-Service Entreprise" are deemed to have complied with the following formalities, by giving the employee and sending the authorised body the parts of the job voucher…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Fire and rescue services

Article R1424-51

…orm the duties of a volunteer firefighter during duty time, except in the cases provided for by loi n° 96-370 du 3 mai 1996 relative au développement du volontariat dans les corps de sapeurs-pompiers.

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-5

For budgets voted by nature, the budget article corresponds to the most detailed subdivision of the nomenclature defined by the decree provided for in Article L. 5217-10-5, supplemented, for programme…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article R228-52

Participating securities issued to subscribers contain the following information: 1° The company name, followed, where applicable, by its acronym; 2° The form of the issuing company; 3° The amount of…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter V: Attachment of assets placed in a safe deposit box

Article R525-5

A creditor who obtains a writ of execution at a time when the property has already been removed from the safe, shall proceed as provided in Articles…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Mission, conditions of access and exercise and incompatibilities.

Article L811-5

…tion measures provided for in Chapter V of Title II of Book VI of this Code, in Title VI of the loi n° 85-98 du 25 janvier 1985 relative au redressement et à la liquidation judiciaires des entreprises…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Information provided at the time of implementation

Article L2312-57

In the absence of an agreement, one month after each election of the social and economic committee, the employer provides it with economic and financial documentation specifying: 1° The legal form of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: OVERSEAS REGIONS

Article R4437-5

I. - For the application to Mayotte of article R. 4432-10, references to articles R. 4432-1 to R. 4432-7 are replaced by references to articles R. 4437-3 and R. 4437-4.II. - For the application to May…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: REFUSAL AND WITHDRAWAL OF RESIDENCE PERMITS

Article R432-5

A resident permit may be withdrawn and replaced ipso jure by a temporary residence permit in the following cases: 1° The foreign national, holder of a resident permit, may not be subject to a deportat…

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