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

Article 722-14

With regard to the production of demonstration tapes, direct subsidies are reserved for the promotion of series and collections with a total running time of more than four hours and with episodes or i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Direct marketing of banking and financial services.

Article D341-15

The rights of access and rectification provided for respectively in articles 39 and 40 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978 may be exercised with the Banque de France and the persons having app…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Biological analyses and screening tests.

Article D1221-7

Blood or its components may only be used to prepare labile blood products intended for direct therapeutic use if the results of the screening tests provided for in 5° of article D. 1221-6 are negative…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Adoption judgment

Article 353-2

Third-party proceedings against the adoption judgment are admissible only in the event of fraud or deceit attributable to the adopters or to the spouse, partner bound by a civil solidarity pact or coh…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-19

The agents reporting to the Minister responsible for Sport, the persons approved by the Agency mentioned in article L. 232-11 and the persons authorised to carry out investigations mentioned in articl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Donation and use of gametes.

Article L1244-2

The donor must be of age. An emancipated minor may not be a donor. Prior to the donation, the donor shall be duly informed of the legislative and regulatory provisions relating to gamete donation, in…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Central purchasing bodies

Article L2113-3

…the award procedures provided for in this Book.Auxiliary purchasing activities consist of providing assistance with the award of contracts, in particular in the following forms:1° Provision of technic…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to new building projects

Article R2431-9

…ager and required to obtain the building permit and other administrative authorisations, as well as assistance to the project owner during their examination. For new housing developments, the prelimin…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Commitments of the private project manager

Article R2432-3

Where the assignment entrusted to the project manager includes assisting the project owner with the award of public works contracts, the public works contract must include an undertaking by the contra…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title II: Protection of technical knowledge

Article R622-1

…examination and publication of topographies of semiconductor products. The Institute shall provide assistance to applicants by any appropriate means, specified by decision of its Director General.

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