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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Measures to boost cinema distribution

Article 916-9

…he automatic financial aid to which they are entitled under article 222-3, between 2 September 2020 and 16 February 2021, are those set out in article 916-10.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures to boost film production

Article 916-2

…n or equal to €307,500;- 128.65% when the total revenue from feature films is greater than €307,500 and less than or equal to €615,000;- 123.06% when the total revenue from feature films is greater th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Measures to boost cinema distribution

Article 916-10

…n or equal to €307,500;- 198.89% when the total revenue from feature films is greater than €307,500 and less than or equal to €615,000;- 170.48% when the total revenue from feature films is greater th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4: Withholding

Article L623-44

This Section shall not apply to farm-saved seed covered by Section 2a of this Chapter.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Compulsory taxes. Additional taxes to certain registration duties

Article 1595 ter

The additional taxes provided for in articles 1595 and 1595 bis do not apply to sales of movable property referred to in 2 of Article 1584.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Direct taxes and assimilated taxes. Income tax. Corporation tax. Duties and penalties

Article 1668

…second paragraph of I of article 219, on the income taxed at the rate set in b of I of Article 219 and on income taxed under the conditions set out in Article 238 of the last financial year. Companie…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
13°: Financing certain export transactions

Article 136

The withholding tax provided for in 1 of l'article 119 bis et du prélèvement prévu au I de Article 125 A interest, arrears and all other income from bond issues contracted before 1 January 1965 by cre…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Procedure for awarding global contracts applicable to purchasers subject to Book IV

Article R2171-16

…es:1° For design-build contracts awarded by contracting authorities in the cases listed in 1° to 3° and 5° of Article R. 2172-2;1° bis For global performance contracts awarded by contracting authoriti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Respective scope of application of registration duty and land registration tax

Article 662

…uties:1° When they do not give rise to the merged formality, the deeds referred to in 1 of article 635 ;2° The acts referred to in 1°, 5°, 7° and 7° bis of 2 of article 635 and in article 636 and gene…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Bodies and operations

Article L5842-4

…The provisions of Section 3 of Chapter I of Title I of Book II of Part Five mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right…

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