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

Article 422-9

…f an agreement with the beneficiary.The aid is paid in two instalments. The first instalment, which may not exceed 75% of the grant, is paid when the grant is awarded. The balance is paid after submis…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Communication and production of documents in the file of a competition authority

Article L483-4

The judge may not order the Autorité de la concurrence, the minister responsible for the economy, any competition authority of another Member State or the European Commission to produce a document in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Joint representation action

Article L622-4

An association that brings an action under the provisions of articles L. 622-1 to L. 622-3 may bring a civil action before the examining magistrate or the trial court at the head office of the accused…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Nullity and dissolution.

Article R6223-48

Early dissolution may be decided by at least three quarters of the members. A copy of this decision is filed by the legal representative(s) with the Trade and Companies Register in which the company i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Validation and checks carried out by the presidents of the chambers of trades and crafts

Article L123-45

…lification professionnelle des personnes exerçant certaines activités listées à l'Article 16 of Law no. 96-603 of 5 July 1996 above. Where the qualification required to carry out the activities mentio…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Duration of protection

Article L123-4

…ished separately, except where they constitute only a fragment of a previously published work. They may only be attached to previously published works by the same author if the author's successors in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to performers and phonogram producers

Article L214-4

…tivity concerned, use phonograms under the conditions provided for in 1°, 2° and 3° of Article L. 214-1. The organisations called upon to appoint the members of the commission and the number of people…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 43 bis

…subscribed to the initial capital of the sociétés immobilières conventionnées referred to in Order no. 58-876 of 24 September 1958 or to their capital increases, have waived, within a period of one y…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Appearance on preliminary recognition of guilt

Article 495-11

…tence, the person is, according to the distinctions provided for in the second paragraph of article 495-8, either immediately incarcerated in a remand centre, or summoned before the sentence enforceme…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-4

Cheques may only be drawn on a credit institution, an investment services provider other than a portfolio management company, the French Treasury, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations or the Banque…

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