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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of cinemas

Article L212-17

The conditions for issuing and withdrawing approval are set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.In particular, this approval is subject to compliance with technical specifications which the decree may ent…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter V: Special provisions relating to the location of cinemas

Article L425-1

…e of the State in the département may, within one month of receiving the report referred to in article L. 414-4, give formal notice to the operator of the cinema concerned to reduce the number of scre…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions

Article L611-1

For the application of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: NAME AND TERRITORY OF THE TOWN

Article L2114-1

Where the takeover, in execution of legislative provisions or legal decisions, of all or part of the territory of a commune has had the effect of making communal life impossible, the abolition of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Collective investment management companies

Article L543-1

Collective investment management companies are portfolio management companies, legal entities that manage the AIFs mentioned in 3° of III of Article L. 214-24, managers of European venture capital fun…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Responsibilities.

Article L2332-1

The Group Works Council receives information on the activity, financial situation, annual or multi-annual employment trends and forecasts, and any preventive measures envisaged in the light of these f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Access to non-identifying data and the identity of the third-party donor

Article L2143-1

…urposes of this Chapter, the notion of third-party donor means the person whose gametes have been collected or retrieved pursuant to Chapter IV of Title IV of Book II of Part One of this Code, as well…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Departmental councils.

Article L4123-17

The procedures for the election and operation of the territorial council of the Ordre des Médecins, des chirurgiens-dentistes and des sages-femmes of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, as well as its powers an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Public auction sales.

Article L322-15

Judicial sales of wholesale goods authorised under Article L. 322-14 as well as all those authorised or ordered by consular justice in the various cases provided for by this code are carried out by sw…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Prevention of business difficulties.

Article L611-10

The homologation of the agreement puts an end to the conciliation procedure. Where the debtor is subject to statutory audit of its accounts, the approved agreement is sent to its statutory auditor. Th…

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