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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Pre-implementation and post-implementation aid committees

Article 211-144

A commission is responsible for examining applications for pre-production aid other than those mentioned in articles…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Pre-implementation and post-implementation aid committees

Article 211-143

A committee is responsible for examining applications for pre-production support for a director's second or third feature film. It has seven members, including two co-chairmen.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Pre-implementation and post-implementation aid committees

Article 211-151

The costing committee responsible for proposing the amount of aid is made up of one of the co-chairmen of each commission. For each project, the co-chair of the relevant committee has the casting vote…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III-1: Sale of buildings to be constructed.

Article 1601-2

A forward sale is a contract in which the seller undertakes to deliver the property on completion and the buyer undertakes to take delivery of it and pay the price on the delivery date. Ownership is t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2-3

The persons mentioned in 1°, 1° bis, 1° ter and 1° quater of Article L. 561-2 are not subject to the provisions of this chapter solely in respect of their activities in providing the service mentioned…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Grants and other revenue allocated by the Local Finance Committee

Article L2334-26

From 1986 onwards, communes receive a special allocation, deducted from State revenue, to cover the costs they incur in housing teachers.This allocation changes each year in line with the overall oper…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Funeral and burial regulations

Article D2213-1-1-2

Students in the third cycle of medical studies who have completed two semesters in the speciality they are pursuing are authorised to draw up death certificates as part of their postgraduate training…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 60-1-2

On pain of nullity, requisitions relating to technical data making it possible to identify the source of the connection or data relating to the terminal equipment used mentioned in 3° of II bis of art…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 56-1-2

In the cases provided for in articles 56-1 and 56-1-1, without prejudice to the prerogatives of the President of the Bar or his delegate as provided for in Article 56-1 and the rights of the person se…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Specific insurance accounting policies and valuations

Article A343-1-2

For the purposes of this article, the duration of the liabilities of an insurance undertaking is a prudent estimate of the weighted average maturity of future payments relating to regulated commitment…

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