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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exceptional aid to offset fixed costs

Article 919-82

…cinema to the amount of credits allocated to direct allocations.The amount of the direct allocation may not exceed 70% of the mathematical opposite of the gross operating surplus at fixed costs mentio…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exceptional aid to offset fixed costs

Article 919-85

…granting of the exceptional aid is subject to the provisions of exempted framework scheme No SA.42681, relating to aid for culture and heritage conservation for the period 2014-2023, adopted on the b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Cross-disciplinary provisions on quality in cancer research

Article R6123-91-8

Authorisation may only be granted if the applicant has an organisation, set up where appropriate in conjunction with other cancer treatment authorisation holders, which provides each patient, where ap…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article L225-129-6

…on to increase the share capital in accordance with the conditions set out in the articles L. 3332-18 to L. 3332-24 of the Labour Code, where the company has employees. However, the Extraordinary Gene…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.

Article L310-12-1

…peration of the decision-making and governing bodies of the persons referred to in 1° to 3°, 5° and 9° to 11° of B of I of Article L. 612-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code comply with the provision…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article R2224-19-8

The sums owed by users are invoiced in the name of the holder of the water subscription, failing that in the name of the owner of the business, failing that in the name of the owner of the building. H…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Service regulations and pricing

Article L2224-12-2-1

No charges related to payment rejection may be levied by drinking water and wastewater services on natural persons not acting for business purposes who have obtained, for the bill that generated payme…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions relating to the electronic recognition of professional qualifications of regulated professions

Article R123-30-12

…tores data on interim computer media made available by the computer service mentioned in Article R. 123-30-9, the administrative authority responsible for implementing this service shall, at the end o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-123-5

…g authorisation referred to in article L. 5141-5 or the registration referred to in article L. 5141-9, customs officers check the corresponding marketing authorisation or registration number which app…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Other applications of the Community arbitration procedure.

Article R5141-47-12

…ommunity arbitration procedure implemented in accordance with the provisions of Articles R. 5141-47-9 to R. 5141-47-11, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimenta…

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