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Showing 511520 of 59246 articles for Art. Cass. com. 9 June 2009 n° 08-10.350 · Cass. com. 22 October 1996 · Cass. 1re civ. 22 May 1991 · Cass. 1re civ. 10 July 1996 · Cass. 3e civ. 2 April 2003

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1a: Organs, tissues and cells removed for autologous therapeutic purposes

Article R1211-22-2

…lyses performed, mentioning the individual results of these analyses in accordance with article R. 1211-22-1. This report also mentions the laboratory that performed the analyses. It is produced in th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
11° Tax credit for expenditure on the production of live shows

Article 220 quindecies

…panies engaged in the activity of live performance entrepreneur, within the meaning of Article L. 7122-2 of the Labour Code, and subject to corporation tax, may benefit from a tax credit in respect of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4° Tax credit for expenditure on the production of phonographic works

Article 220 octies

I. - Phonographic production companies within the meaning of Article L. 213-1 of the Intellectual Property Code, subject to corporation tax, are eligible for a tax credit in respect of expenditure on…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article R645-22

…e judgment by which the court opens the compulsory liquidation procedure pursuant to article L. 645-9 automatically terminates the professional recovery procedure without the debts being erased.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Rights and obligations attached to plant variety certificates

Article L623-22-2

The licence application provided for in Article L. 623-22-1 shall be made to the judicial court. The licence is non-exclusive. In particular, the court shall determine its duration, scope and the amou…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Specific powers of the President of the Investigating Chamber

Article 221-1

…last investigative act necessary to ascertain the truth, the president of the investigating chamber may, by petition, refer the matter to that court. The Investigating Chamber may, in the interests of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the implementation of a resolution measure

Article L311-22

…ion proceedings is part of a group referred to in the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 356-2, the resolution college shall implement the resolution measures in such a way as to minimise their…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2 : Obligations relating to the issue of a cinema licence

Article R211-22

When a work or a document for which the cinematographic licence includes a specific ban on representation is published in the form of a videogram intended for private use by the public, this fact must…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Registration of sums in the automatic cinema distribution account

Article 222-6

…phic works fixed on 70 mm film as defined in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Registration of sums in the automatic cinema distribution account

Article 222-5

When two companies are responsible for the distribution of the same film, the sums are entered in the automatic cinema distribution account of only one of these companies in consideration of the speci…

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