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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Exemption provisions relating to direct allocations based on the distribution conditions of cinematographic works

Article 919-63

…f derogation from 5° of the same article, the minimum amount of final distribution expenditure is reduced to €30,000;3° By way of derogation from the first paragraph of 2° of article 222-20, distribut…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Measures relating to the intensity of public aid

Article 919-64

…ks for which it is justified that there are particular difficulties in distributing them in cinemas due to abnormal market conditions linked to the significant drop in attendance at cinemas in the con…

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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 Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Reduction of sentences

Article 721-2

…eventing the commission of further offences, order that a sentenced person who has benefited from reductions in sentence under article 721 be subject, after his release and for a period which may not…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable persons

Article 6

…is children, where they derive income from their work or from assets independent of his own.3. Any adult under the age of twenty-one, or under the age of twenty-five where they are still studying, or,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the recognition and enforcement by the French authorities of a European protection order

Article 696-100

…t out in Article 696-90 are not fulfilled; 3° The protection measure was ordered on the basis of conduct that does not constitute an offence under French law; 4° The European protection order is based…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions for the importation of plasma pastes and labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products.

Article D1221-65

When the import concerns plasma pastes or labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products, the authorisation referred to in Article D. 1221-58 is issued to the following organisa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions for the importation of plasma pastes and labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products.

Article D1221-67

…the import authorisation may be issued by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé on the basis of a forward programme submitted by the importer…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions for the importation of plasma pastes and labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products.

Article D1221-66

…ovisions of g of Article D. 1221-61, that the samples of blood or its components, from which the product for which the import authorisation is requested was prepared, comply with the requirements of S…

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