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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Common provisions

Article 223-21

The aid is awarded in the form of a grant.The aid is the subject of an agreement signed with the distribution company.This agreement may include commitments by the distribution company concerning the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Compensation for distribution costs

Article 917-9

…ompany must complete and submit, by 30 June 2021 at the latest, by electronic means, an application form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, together with all the detailed…

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

Article 723-9

The aid is awarded in the form of a grant.The aid is the subject of an agreement signed with the beneficiary.The aid is paid in two instalments. The first instalment, which may not exceed 50% of the t…

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

Article L233-20

…ise the consolidated balance sheet and income statement and notes to the financial statements: they form an indivisible whole.To this end, the companies included in the consolidation are required to s…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Patents for invention

Article R616-1

…on the patentability of the invention to the Institut national de la propriété industrielle, in the form provided for patent applications to article R. 612-63, paragraph 2. The content of these observ…

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

Article R622-1

…Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property may require filing in electronic form where this is likely to facilitate the examination and publication of topographies of semicondu…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Issue and maintenance of plant variety certificates

Article R623-48

…receipt, at the headquarters of the national plant variety authority, or by a message in electronic form in accordance with the procedures laid down by the head of the national authority to guarantee…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Completion of formalities

Article 660

The competent public accountants are prohibited from carrying out the registration formality in respect of deeds subject to land registration pursuant to the decree no. 55-22 of 4 January 1955 as amen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L2334-13

…ce between all the resources allocated to the overall operating grant of the communes and the total formed by the flat-rate grant provided for in Article L. 2334-7 and the fixed allocation for new com…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: COMMUNE SECTION

Article L2411-1

…tants having their real and fixed domicile within its territory. II. - No section de commune may be formed as from the promulgation of loi n° 2013-428 du 27 mai 2013 modernisant le régime des sections…

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