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

Article 422-1

…e French population around the values of the Republic. This support encourages the emergence of new forms of writing and new talent, particularly from priority urban policy neighbourhoods. They are re…

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

Article 919-79

Exceptional aid is granted in the form of a direct allocation to help offset the fixed costs incurred by operators of cinemas who :1° Are eligible for financial aid for the creation and modernisation…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Merger

Article L236-13

Where the merger is effected by the creation of a new company, the new company may be formed without any contributions other than those of the merging companies.Where the new company is a limited liab…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority

Article R331-23

…regard to exceptions and article L. 331-31 with regard to the transmission of printed texts in the form of a digital file.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-32

…nt of receipt. The company has six months from this notification to notify the partner, in the same form, of a plan to sell his shares to a partner or to a third party registered on the list of indust…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Acquisition of rights

Article R512-13

…thereto; in the event of a claim of ownership, the corresponding summons; 3° Changes of name, legal form or address as well as rectifications of material errors affecting the entries. No entry shall b…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 723

…ribed and estimated item by item in a separate statement, four copies of which, drawn up on special forms provided by the administration, must remain deposited with the tax department with which the f…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL

Article L3221-4-1

…authorised speed 10 km/h higher than that provided for in the highway code. This decision takes the form of a reasoned order, issued after consultation with the departmental road safety committee, on…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Bodies and operations

Article L5211-11

…establishment of inter-municipal cooperation meets at least once every three months or, for unions formed for a single work or service of inter-municipal interest, once every six months. To this end,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: The right to support for young people towards employment and independence

Article L5131-4

The support referred to in article L. 5131-3 may take the form of a contractual support pathway towards employment and independence agreed with the State, drawn up with the young person and adapted to…

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