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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Provisions relating to aid for the creation and distribution of short cinematographic and audiovisual works

Article 918-6

For the allocation of production programme aid in 2021 and 2022, the 20-point reduction provided for in II of article 411-44 does not apply.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Summons to appear, immediate appearance and deferred appearance

Article 397-6

…apply to minors, or in respect of press offences, political offences or offences for which the procedure for prosecution is provided by a special law. Notwithstanding the first paragraph of this Artic…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Award notice

Article R3125-6

The awarding authority shall send for publication an award notice within a maximum period of forty-eight days from the notification of the concession contract.This notice shall be drawn up in accordan…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article LO6314-6

…subsoil of territorial waters, excluding: 1° Areas classified as nature reserves on the date of the Loi organique n° 2007-223 du 21 février 2007 portant dispositions statutaires et institutionnelles r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 698

The offences falling within the jurisdiction of the courts mentioned in articles 697 and 697-4 are prosecuted, investigated and judged according to the rules of this code, subject to the specific prov…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Service of documents in ordinary form.

Article 668

Subject to Article 647-1, the date of service by post is, as regards the person making the service, the date of dispatch and, as regards the person to whom the service is made, the date of receipt of…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 619

New pleas are not admissible before the Cour de cassation. They may nevertheless be raised for the first time, unless otherwise provided: 1° Pleas in law of a purely legal nature; 2° Pleas arising fro…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section V: Special rules for international notifications.

Article 688

The court shall be seised of the claim made by writ by the delivery to it of the document completed with the information provided for in Article 684-1 or, as the case may be, in Article 687-1, where a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 667

A judgment which has dismissed an application for committal on grounds of public safety, on the grounds set out in the first paragraph of Article 665-1, on the grounds of legitimate suspicion or in th…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Book II: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENS AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES

Article L200-6

Restrictions on the right to move and reside freely in France imposed on foreign nationals whose situation is governed by this book may only be justified by behaviour which constitutes, from the point…

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