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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Surrender in the event of illegal residence

Article R621-5

The administrative authority designated in article R. 621-1 may, in application of the provisions of article L. 621-4, take a surrender decision against a foreign national holding long-term resident s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions for authorising and operating public health establishments and medical biology analysis laboratories

Article R2131-5-5

…cle L. 2131-1.For each activity mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, the authorisation may be limited to part of that activity.Where the health care organisation has several sites, the au…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Compensation for distribution costs

Article 917-5

Exceptional aid is granted in the form of direct allocations to distribution companies in order to compensate for part of the expenditure they have incurred in distributing cinematographic works whose…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Increased rates for calculating sums representing automatic aid

Article 919-51

…t at :- 290.40% when the amount of revenue generated by feature films is less than or equal to €307,500;- 155.21% when the amount of revenue generated by feature films is greater than €307,500 and les…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Increased rates for calculating sums representing automatic aid

Article 919-50

…rates are set at :- 273.99% when the total revenue from feature films is less than or equal to €307,500;- 150.69% when the total revenue from feature films is greater than €307,500 and less than or eq…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Exceptional entry of sums on the automatic account

Article 919-59

In order to take account of the difficulties of investment linked to the deteriorated conditions in which cinematographic works are shown in cinemas and to encourage the distribution of new works, sum…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: The parties.

Article 553

In the event of indivisibility with regard to several parties, an appeal by one party has effect with regard to the others even if they have not joined the proceedings; an appeal against one party is…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 596

…a penalty other than that applied by law to the nature of the crime, the annulment of the judgment may be pursued both by the public prosecutor and by the convicted party.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 556

The landings and accretions that successively and imperceptibly form at the riparian bottoms of a watercourse are called "alluvium".Alluvium benefits the riparian owner, whether the watercourse is sta…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Opposition.

Article 575

If the opposition is made in the manner provided for in Article 573 (paragraph 2) it must, on pain of inadmissibility, be declared at the clerk's office of the court which handed down the decision by…

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