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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Responsibilities

Article R112-4

The Board of Directors deliberates in particular on :1° The establishment's strategic guidelines ;2° The initial budget and amending budgets, as well as the financial statements and the allocation of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation

Article R112-7

The Board of Directors meets at least twice a year, convened by the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, who sets the agenda.It is also convened by the Chairman at the reque…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation

Article R112-9

The financial control authority and the accounting officer attend meetings of the Board of Directors in an advisory capacity.The Chairman may also invite the heads of the institution's departments and…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3 : Cinematographic representation in a school or university establishment

Article R211-51

The Minister responsible for culture may, after consulting the chairman of the classification committee, authorise the non-commercial public showing of a work or document whose cinematographic release…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 260

The following may pay value added tax at their request: 1° (Provision no longer applicable). 2° Persons who let bare premises for the purposes of the business of a lessee liable for value added tax or…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 260 B

Transactions relating to banking, financial activities and, in general, trading in securities and money, as these activities are defined by decree, may, where they are exempt from value added tax, be…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 260 A

Local authorities, their groupings or their public establishments may, at their request, be subject to value added tax in respect of transactions relating to the following services: Water supply in mu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 260 C

The option mentioned in Article 260 B does not apply: 1° Transactions carried out by affiliates of the central body of savings banks and banques populaires, as well as their groupings, between themsel…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Scope of application

Article 260 CA

Taxable persons and non-taxable legal entities likely to benefit from the provisions of 2° of I of Article 256 bis may, at their request, pay the tax on their intra-Community acquisitions. The option…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2 : Decision of the departmental cinematographic development commission

Article L212-10

Applications for authorisation are examined by local government departments.

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