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Showing 8190 of 47145 articles for Art. Cass. ass. plén. 21 December 2007 n° 06-11.343 · Cass. 3e civ. 24 April 2003 · Cass. 3e civ. 4 October 1995 · Cass. 3e civ. 7 June 2000 · Cass. 3e civ. 29 November 2000 · Cass. 1re civ. 6 November 2002

French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Production approval

Article 211-61

In the case of co-productions, production approval is issued to each of the production companies involved in the co-production contract, provided that the contract has been entered in the public film…

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

Article 612-29

The decision to award a grant is taken on the advice of the Online Distribution Grants Committee.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-24

…ed fine, they send their reasoned request to the competent public accountant. In this case, article 495-20 is not applicable. If the competent public accountant considers the request to be justified,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XIII sexies : Capital gains tax on the sale of buildings other than building land

Article 1609 nonies G

…rsons or companies or groupings covered by articles 8 to 8 ter and in those provided for in article 244 bis A by taxpayers not resident in France for tax purposes who are liable for income tax.The tax…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Specific investment for certain animated works

Article 211-67

When production companies have an automatic cinema production account, they must either have exhausted their investment possibilities under this account, or have less than €800,000 in the account. In…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-29-7

…ree in the Conseil d'Etat shall set the terms and conditions for the application of articles L. 228-29-1 to L. 228-29-6, in particular the conditions not provided for in Article L. 228-29-1 under whic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Formation of the company

Article R5125-24-6

…inancières de profession libérale de pharmaciens d'officine by merger or takeover, articles R. 5125-24-1 to R. 5125-24-5 are applicable.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 211-63

…ork;2° Salaries and remuneration of personnel hired for preparatory work;3° Location scouting costs;4° For works belonging to the animation genre:a) Expenditure on the design, development and modellin…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-4

…aised the nationality objection before a court which has stayed the proceedings pursuant to Article 29. The third party making the request must be implicated.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-21

In view of the request made pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 495-18 or the complaint made pursuant to the second paragraph of article 495-19, the public prosecutor may either waive prosecuti…

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