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Showing 40714080 of 6655 articles for Art. EU Regulation 2368/2002

French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Coverage of cash requirements and investment financing

Article 916-22

…for culture and heritage conservation for the period 2014-2023, adopted on the basis of Commission Regulation No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the inter…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Additional compensation measures

Article 916-33

…for culture and heritage conservation for the period 2014-2023, adopted on the basis of Commission Regulation No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the inter…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Exceptional aid for particularly vulnerable farmers

Article 919-78

…for culture and heritage conservation for the period 2014-2023, adopted on the basis of Commission Regulation No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the inter…

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

Article 919-85

…for culture and heritage conservation for the period 2014-2023, adopted on the basis of Commission Regulation No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the inter…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exceptional aid to programming groups and agreements

Article 919-73

…for culture and heritage conservation for the period 2014-2023, adopted on the basis of Commission Regulation No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the inter…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility

Article L22-10-74

The provisions of article L. 226-4-1, relating to the proportion of members of the supervisory board of each sex, are applicable without threshold conditions to companies whose shares are admitted to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-40

…ion public. The terms and conditions for the application of this article are set out in the General Regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article L238-3-1

…s using the acronym "SE" in their company name in breach of the provisions of Article 11 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European company (SE) to change…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Common provisions

Article L5211-4-3

…ts that it shares with its member communes in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in a regulation for their availability, including for the exercise by the communes of competences that ha…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Procedures for reimbursing undue payments

Article L6323-45

…ining account has used undue entitlements or that the holder has used entitlements in breach of the regulations or the general conditions of use of the dematerialised service, it may recover the undue…

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