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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Reserving contracts for economic operators employing disabled and disadvantaged workers

Article L2113-12

Contracts or lots of a contract may be reserved for adapted companies mentioned in article L. 5213-13 of the French Labour Code, establishments and services providing assistance through work mentioned…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to the State, its public establishments and unauthorised purchasers

Article L2223-1

The competent administrative authorities shall authorise the signing of partnership contracts by the State and its public establishments, under conditions laid down by regulation.These provisions shal…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Form of prices

Article R2112-6

The prices of services covered by a contract are:1° Either unit prices applied to the quantities actually delivered or performed;2° Or lump-sum prices applied to all or part of the contract, regardles…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Global performance contract

Article R2171-3

To award a global performance contract, the purchaser will use a number of criteria, including the criterion of overall cost and one or more criteria relating to the performance objectives defined on…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Contract notices for contracts awarded in accordance with a procedure adapted by virtue of their subject-matter

Article R2331-7

For service contracts subject to Section 2 of Chapter III of Title II, the purchaser is free to choose the advertising methods best suited to the characteristics of the contract, in particular the val…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-41

…s relating to the audiovisual sector; 4° "Main character" means a character who appears in at least 25% of the scenes in the work and "secondary character" means a character who appears in less than 2…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Exceptional aid to help offset the fall in activity in 2020

Article 919-26

…d a turnover relating to the distribution of cinematographic works in cinemas representing at least 25% of their average total turnover in the years 2018 and 2019;6° In 2020, have suffered a loss of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Health surveillance, safety and policing

Article L1435-1

…agency contributes to achieving the objectives of the urban policy defined in article 1 of law no. 2014-173 of 21 February 2014 on programming for cities and urban cohesion. To this end, it is involv…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to establishments distributing the Livret A or the Livret de développement durable et solidaire.

Article R221-9

…sted in article L. 100-2 of the same code; 3° To finance legal entities covered by Article 1 of Law 2014-856 of 31 July 2014 on the social economy. Where applicable, in order to enable verification of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 4: Procedures for drawing up and issuing the payment notice for the parking charge

Article R2333-120-9

…s taken.Officers who, on the date provided for in the first paragraph of V of Article 63 of Law no. 2014-58 of 27 January 2014, are sworn to record paid parking offences retain the benefit of this swe…

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