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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 411-56

Selective financial aid is awarded to production companies that have never received production programme aid in lieu of such aid when it has been applied for, for the development of a finished version…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exceptional aid to help offset the loss of revenue resulting from the introduction of the health pass

Article 919-56

To obtain the aid, distribution companies must submit a form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée electronically by 31 January 2022 at the latest.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Collection of the claim

Article R2191-56

…ervice on the accounting officer provided for in paragraph 1, the beneficiary of the assignment or pledge of the claim shall alone collect the amount of the claim or the part of the claim that has bee…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 5: National Patent Register

Article R613-56

By way of derogation from 2° of Article R. 613-55, may be produced with the application:1° In the event of a transfer by death, a copy of any deed establishing the transfer, at the request of the heir…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 14: Maintenance and repair of medical equipment

Article D224-56

When several parts from the circular economy can be offered to replace the same defective part, particularly when the choice of one of them has consequences for the repair or maintenance time, the pos…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Economic regime

Article 568 ter

I. - The distance selling of manufactured tobacco products, including when the purchaser is located abroad, is prohibited in mainland France and the overseas departments. The acquisition, introduction…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Economic regime

Article 568 bis

As an exception to Article 568, in the overseas departments, from 1 January 2019 only persons who are qualified traders and hold a licence granted on behalf of the department by the president of the d…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 5: Data retention

Article R142-56

With the exception of those mentioned in this article, DNA processing data shall not be transferred or interconnected, linked or reconciled with any other processing. The civil status data of the asyl…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 6: Judgement

Article R532-56

When the Minister responsible for immigration so requests, the Cour nationale du droit d'asile will forward its rejection decisions to him or her.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Discharge from hospital.

Article R1112-56

Hospitalised patients may, in view of the length of their stay and their state of health, be granted exceptional leave of absence for a maximum period of forty-eight hours. Such leave is granted by th…

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