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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 411-31

The production company has two years from the date of signature of the agreement to apply for a cinematographic exhibition licence, unless an exemption is granted by the President of the Centre nation…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Agricultural risk compensation scheme

Article D443-2

The approval referred to in III of article L. 442-1-2 is granted by a joint decision of the ministers responsible for agriculture and the economy, within two months of the date of receipt of the appli…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title XIV: Trusts

Article 2018-1

Where the trust agreement provides that the settlor retains the use or enjoyment of a business or property for business use transferred to the trust assets, the agreement entered into for this purpose…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Pledging of tangible movable property

Article 2333

A pledge is an agreement by which the pledgor grants a creditor the right to be paid in preference to his other creditors on a present or future movable asset or group of movable tangible assets. Secu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article L3423-6

Any employee referred to in Article L. 3211-1 who is not in receipt of statutory or contractual benefits for partial deprivation of employment and who is bound to his employer by a contract of employm…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Agreements relating to unemployment insurance.

Article L5422-21

Approval makes the provisions of the agreement binding on all employers and employees within the professional and territorial scope of the agreement.Approval is granted for the duration of the agreeme…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Creation of apprenticeship training units

Article L6233-1

The teaching provided by the apprentice training centre may be provided in an educational establishment within an apprenticeship training unit. This unit is created within the framework of an agreemen…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Costs of implementing secret cryptology agreements

Article R208

For each delivery or implementation, at the request of the judicial authorities under the conditions set out in II of Article 28 of Law no. 90-1170 of 29 December 1990 on the regulation of telecommuni…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Increases.

Article L7422-10

When the client gives a job to be delivered by a deadline such that it can only be completed by working on a Sunday or public holiday, the worker will be entitled to the supplements provided for in th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Study agreement

Article R1143-1

Any company with fewer than three hundred employees may enter into an agreement with the State under which it may receive financial assistance to carry out a study of : 1° Its situation in terms of pr…

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