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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Appointment

Article 131-2

The committees include an equal number of women and men as full and alternate members. If there is an odd number of seats to be filled, the difference between the number of women and the number of men…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Ethics

Article 132-4

A member of a committee who has a conflict of interest in relation to a matter on the agenda of a committee meeting and who withdraws for the adoption of the resolution on that matter is prohibited, f…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Operation

Article 133-3

If a member is unable to sit for a period of more than one month during his or her term of office for exceptional reasons, in particular due to requirements connected with filming or the promotion of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Operation

Article 133-12

The Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée or his representatives attend meetings of the Commission as of right.The secretariat of the Commission is provided by the relevant de…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Ethics

Article 132-1

The members of the committees are bound by an obligation of impartiality.They shall personally examine the matters submitted for their consideration and deliberate on them without regard to persons or…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Ethics

Article 132-5

Committee members are subject to a duty of confidentiality, under which they must refrain from taking a public position that could undermine the serenity of the committees' work or their ethical oblig…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Qualification system for contracting entities

Article R2162-27

Contracting entities may use a qualification system established by a third party. They shall inform the economic operators concerned thereof.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Claims in contentious matters.

Article 58

Where this option is open to them under Article 12, the parties may, if they have not already done so since the dispute arose, give the judge, in the joint application, the task of ruling as amiable c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IX: Special schemes

Article 298 bis

…or intermediation services relating to live butchery and charcuterie animals.5° Farmers, where the average revenue from all their farms, calculated over two consecutive calendar years, exceeds €46,00…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: METROPOLITAN POLE

Article L5731-3

The metropolitan pole is subject to the rules applicable to mixed syndicates provided for in article L. 5711-1, or article L. 5721-2 when a region, a department or the metropolis of Lyon is a member,…

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