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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1 : Application for a cinema licence

Article R211-2

The showing of a work or document dubbed into French is subject to the issue of a separate cinematographic exhibition licence from that issued for the showing of the work or document in the original v…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 4: Share of global contract performance reserved for SMEs

Article R2171-23

If the holder of a global contract is not itself a small or medium-sized enterprise or a craftsman, the minimum proportion that it undertakes to entrust, directly or indirectly, to small and medium-si…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: The French Association of Credit Institutions and Investment Firms and other professional bodies

Article L511-29

All credit institutions and finance companies are required to join a professional body or a central body affiliated to the Association française des établissements de crédit et des entreprises d'inves…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The insurance certificate.

Article R211-21

Vehicles registered in a French overseas department or territory or in Mayotte, as well as vehicles not subject to registration whose usual place of parking is in one of these departments or territori…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 7: Functioning of the groups of elected representatives.

Article L3121-24

In the departmental councils, the operation of the groups of elected representatives may be the subject of deliberations without the decisions relating to the allowance system for elected representati…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General measures and implementing provisions.

Article L4411-2

Decrees in the Council of State, issued after consultation with the employers' and employees' professional organisations concerned, shall determine the measures for implementing this chapter and may,…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 6: Appointment of the examining magistrate.

Article D31-2

Where the investigating judge relinquishes jurisdiction pursuant to the last paragraph of Article 118, he shall immediately inform the president of the judicial court in which the investigating divisi…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Processes, products and appliances for mandatory disinfection.

Article R3114-2

Appliances of an approved type bear a serial letter corresponding to the type to which they belong and a serial number within this series.

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Free information, screening and diagnostic centres

Article D3121-26

Each year, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency sends the Minister for Health and the Prefect of the département an updated list of the free information, screening and diagnostic centres…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Free information, screening and diagnostic centres

Article D3121-24

The Regional Health Agency is responsible for the strategic planning, coordination, monitoring and analysis of the activities of accredited centres. The agency may entrust the operational implementati…

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