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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Approval of investments

Article 211-44

In the case of a co-production, investment approval may be requested by each of the production companies not designated as delegated production companies by the co-production contract until the cinema…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Approval of investments

Article 211-49

Approval of investments is also required: 1° For the payment of pre-production production aid and production aid for genre films; 2° For the admission of cinematographic works produced as part of inte…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Approval of investments

Article 211-48

The production company has a period of two years from notification of the first investment approval decision for the cinematographic work to obtain a cinematographic exhibition licence.In exceptional…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic cinema production account

Article 211-40

Subject to payment, under the conditions provided for in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholder default.

Article R228-25

…shares were registered in an account with the issuer in accordance with the provisions of articles R. 211-1 and R. 211-4 of the Monetary and Financial Code, the registration of the defaulting shareho…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 4: Open livestock account.

Article 211

1. Customs officers may carry out such visits, surveys and checks as they deem necessary for the application of the provisions relating to open account, movement and grazing. 2. Security receipts must…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article R225-122

…o waive their pre-emptive rights on an individual basis shall notify the company by registered letter.Waiver without indicating a beneficiary shall be accompanied, in the case of bearer shares, by the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions relating to the insurance of vehicles in international traffic and certain other vehicles.

Article R*211-26

As regards the vehicles mentioned in articles R. 211-22 and R. 211-25, the presumption of insurance results from the production either of one of the documents provided for in section IV of this chapte…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions relating to the insurance of vehicles in international traffic and certain other vehicles.

Article R*211-23

…ed for in section IV of this chapter, or of the international insurance card referred to in article R. 211-22 must, in order to be allowed to drive a vehicle in France which is not normally based in F…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The insurance certificate.

Article R*211-19

…Defence and the Minister of Transport sets the form in which the documents provided for in articles R. 211-15 and R. 211-18 must be drawn up.

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