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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Compliance with environmental obligations

Article 122-18

Companies applying for financial assistance for the production of long or short cinematographic works or for the production of audiovisual works in the fiction or documentary genre must submit the fol…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article R322-123

…takings carrying on direct insurance operations, including the operations referred to in Article R. 322-135, the companies or funds referred to in Article L. 322-27 whose exclusive object is reinsuran…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L5134-120

…aching establishments and local public agricultural teaching and vocational training establishments may offer future teaching posts.II - The job of future teacher is intended for students with higher…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Authorisations.

Article L6122-12

…al Health Agency establishes that the quantitative and qualitative targets mentioned in article L. 6122-8 are not being sufficiently met according to criteria defined by decree, he may revise the auth…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Terms of self-employed practice

Article R4321-129

…practice is that of the professional residence in respect of which, in accordance with article L. 4321-10, he is registered on the roll of the Conseil Départemental de l'Ordre.In the case of practice…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Firm prices

Article R2112-12

In contracts with instalments, the price of each instalment may be discounted under the conditions set out in articles R. 2112-10 and R. 2112-11. This discounting is carried out on the basis of the ec…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation.

Article R512-12

…rm credit transactions. Caisses de crédit agricole mutuel that fail to comply with this requirement may not receive new advances from the central body of Crédit Agricole for medium-term loans or indiv…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Operations on behalf of the State

Article R515-12

The agency manages operations financed from the State budget on behalf of and at the risk of the State. The terms of these operations are the subject of specific agreements signed on behalf of the Sta…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Infant formulae

Article L122-12

For the purposes of this sub-section, infant formulae are foodstuffs intended for the feeding of children up to the age of four months and presented as meeting, on their own, all their nutritional req…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Obligations of the market undertaking

Article L421-12

Without prejudice to Article 53 of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central sec…

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