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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-2

…ny request for assistance.To this end, the delegated production company fills in, electronically, a form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, accompanied by the insurance co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Profits

Article L232-12

…ce of distributable sums, the General Meeting determines the share allocated to shareholders in the form of dividends. However, where a balance sheet drawn up during or at the end of the financial yea…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Penalties

Article L824-5

…auditor, without the statutory auditor being able to invoke professional secrecy, any document or information, in any form whatsoever; they may require a copy thereof;2° Obtain from any person any doc…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter Id : Multi-territorial exploitation licences for online rights in musical works

Article R321-13

…rganisation. III. - The mandating organisation shall make available to the agent organisation the information relating to its own musical repertoire necessary for the granting of multi-territory onlin…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisations authorised to manage reprographic reproduction rights

Article R322-2

…culture will request a supplementary file by registered letter, which must be submitted in the same form within one month of receipt of this letter.Accreditation is granted by order of the minister re…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Filing formalities

Article R512-11

Where the filing has been made in simplified form, the applicant must, no later than six months before the end of the three-year period provided for in Article R. 512-10, waive deferment of publicatio…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single section

Article R718-5

…Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property may require filing in electronic form where this method is likely to facilitate the examination and publication of such documents.The…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VIII: System applicable to investment gold.

Article 298 sexdecies C

…rted with a view to its conversion into investment gold; c. Services whose purpose is to change the form, weight or purity of gold, including investment gold. 2. Where they carry out supplies that are…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter IIa: Tax on the operators of electronic contact platforms for the provision of certain transport services

Article 300 quinquies

…le 300 bis, to the transactions mentioned in 1° of the said article 300 bis or to the elements that form part of the same economic transaction within the meaning of I and II of article 257 ter: 1° The…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Licences and transfers of inheritance rights

Article 750

…for sales of the same property.II. - However, the sale by auction of movable or immovable property forming part of a succession or a marital community, as well as the transfer of rights of inheritanc…

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