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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: French investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L532-24

…registered office is located in mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte and Saint-Martin and which is authorised to provide investment services pursuant to Article…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: The Chairman

Article 246

If the president of the assizes is prevented from attending before the opening of the session, he is replaced by order of the first president. If the president of the assizes is prevented from attendi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 312-45

…pment aid and, where applicable, preparation aid granted in application of Chapter I of this Title, may not have the effect of increasing the total amount of public financial aid to more than 50% of t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 10: Rights of the seller of furniture, claims and restitutions.

Article R641-31

I.-Articles R. 624-13 to R. 624-15 shall apply to judicial liquidation proceedings subject to the following provisions: The application made on the basis of articles L. 624-9, L. 624-10, L. 624-18 or…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special provisions relating to mortgages held by spouses and guardians

Article 2442

Judgments on the claims of a spouse, guardian or legal administrator in the cases provided for in the preceding articles shall be given in the forms regulated in the Code of Civil Procedure. If the co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Master and feeder undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities

Article R214-31

The investment of a UCITS in another UCITS governed by French or foreign law may not exceed the limit set in article R. 214-24 unless it has been authorised by the Autorité des marchés financiers to b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Calculation and payment of the allowance

Article R5123-31

…ployee resumes work. The allowance ceases to be paid when, from the date provided for in article L. 161-17-2 of the Social Security Code, beneficiaries meet the conditions required to validate a full-…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Purge

Article 2461

The property is, ipso jure, purged of the droit de suite attached to the mortgage in the cases provided for by law, in particular the sale on seizure of property, expropriation for public utility or t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 212-21

To be eligible for screenwriting grants, authors must, depending on the case :1° When writing a first screenplay, provide evidence of having written, in the ten years preceding the year of application…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XVIII: Declaration of commissions, brokerage, rebates, fees, royalties, partners' remuneration and profit shares

Article 240

…y, according to the nature of the activity for which the beneficiary received them. The declaration may be filed in accordance with the procedures set out in the first paragraph of the article 87 A, r…

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