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

Article 622-11

The aid is awarded in the form of a grant. Payment of the grant is subject to obtaining the decisions required under article…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exceptional aid to help offset the loss of revenue resulting from the introduction of the health pass

Article 919-52

Exceptional aid is granted in the form of direct allocations to distribution companies in order to compensate for part of the loss of revenue suffered as a result of the impact on attendance at cinema…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Contractual clauses

Article R2194-1

…ications, whatever their amount, have been provided for in the initial contractual documents in the form of review clauses, including clear, precise and unequivocal price variation or option clauses.T…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Disclosure of criteria and implementation procedures

Article R2352-8

For contracts awarded in accordance with a formalised procedure, the award criteria shall be weighted or, where weighting is not possible for objective reasons, shall be indicated in descending order…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Protection of works and objects to which copyright or related rights are attached

Article R331-7

…wn up by the sworn and approved agents mentioned in Article L. 331-19 may be drawn up in electronic form. In this case, a secure electronic signature is used under the conditions provided for by Artic…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Property tax on undeveloped land

Article 1397

…submitted within the period indicated in Article R. 196-2 of the Book of Tax Procedures and in the forms provided for by this same book.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Domestic arbitration.

Article 1442

The arbitration agreement takes the form of an arbitration clause or an arbitration agreement. An arbitration clause is the agreement by which the parties to one or more contracts undertake to submit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Mobility vouchers

Article L3261-5

The payment referred to in articles L. 3261-3 and L. 3261-3-1 may take the form of a specific, dematerialised, prepaid payment solution called a "titre-mobilité". These vouchers are issued by a specia…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1-1: Single integration contract.

Article L5134-19-3

The single integration contract takes the form of : 1° For employers in the non-profit sector mentioned in article L. 5134-21, the employment support contract defined in section 2 ; 2° For employers i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prohibitions.

Article L5222-2

…for a foreign worker to come to France, and from making deductions from the worker's wages, in any form whatsoever, in connection with his or her recruitment.

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