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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exceptional cinematographic performances

Article R211-47

The application must be sent to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée at least two weeks before the date scheduled for the first public performance of the work or document. It must includ…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Responsibilities

Article R112-4

…ctors deliberates in particular on :1° The establishment's strategic guidelines ;2° The initial budget and amending budgets, as well as the financial statements and the allocation of the results for t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exceptional cinematographic performances

Article R211-45

…Minister responsible for culture issues a cinematographic exhibition licence under the conditions set out in this sub-section:1° Either for an unlimited number of screenings and, except in the case o…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Financial and accounting provisions

Article R114-4

Receipts and imprest accounts may be set up by decision of the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée under the conditions laid down by Decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July 2019 on t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Classification committee reports and opinions

Article R211-4

…Art…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: General conditions of employment, recruitment and grading

Article R113-4

…how proof of the qualifications specified below for each of the job categories mentioned in article R. 113-2: 1° For categories 1 "head of department" and 1: a level 6, 7 and 8 diploma within the mean…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Common provisions

Article R211-42

Members of classification committees and the classification commission, as well as agents authorised by the Minister for Culture, have free access, on presentation of a service card, to cinemas or any…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exceptional cinematographic performances

Article R211-48

…being filmed; 4° The classification measure and, where applicable, the warning attached to it, as determined by the applicant or the Minister for Culture; 5° The performance conditions mentioned in a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Programming projects representing programming commitments

Article R212-43

…Art…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Programming projects representing programming commitments

Article R212-42

…Art…

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