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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exclusion of non-specialised cinemas

Article D311-12

Public performances likely to result in exclusion from the benefit of financial aid are recorded in accordance with the forms and procedures mentioned in…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-5

Persons who are subject to a measure of exclusion from administrative contracts by virtue of an administrative decision taken in application of article L. 8272-4 of the Labour Code are excluded from t…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-1

…2-1 or 450-1 of the French Criminal Code, articles 1741 to 1743, 1746 or 1747 of the French General Tax Code, or for receiving such offences, as well as for equivalent offences under the legislation o…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-2

Persons who have not made the declarations required of them in terms of tax or social security or who have not paid the taxes, levies, contributions or social security contributions due are excluded f…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-6

The purchaser may, by way of exception, authorise an economic operator who is in a case of exclusion provided for in this Section to participate in the procedure for the award of a contract, provided…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-4

…o negotiate provided for in 2° of Article L. 2242-1 of the Labour Code. Except where the penalty of exclusion from the contracts has been pronounced for a different period set by a final court decisio…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-6-1

A person who finds himself in one of the cases of exclusion mentioned in articles L. 2141-1, L. 2141-4 and L. 2141-5 may provide evidence that he/she has taken measures to demonstrate his/her reliabil…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2141-3

The following persons are excluded from the contract award procedure:1° Subject to the compulsory liquidation procedure provided for in Article L. 640-1 of the French Commercial Code or subject to an…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2341-1

…2-1 or 450-1 of the French Criminal Code, articles 1741 to 1743, 1746 or 1747 of the French General Tax Code, or for concealing such offences, as well as for equivalent offences under the legislation…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Automatic exclusions

Article L2341-3

…2339-11-3 of the French Defence Code and Article L. 317-8 of the French Internal Security Code. The exclusion from the procurement procedure applies for a period of five years from the date of the jud…

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