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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Definitive approval

Article D331-16

For audiovisual works, the date of completion is the date shown on the certificate of acceptance of the final version by a television service publisher.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Committee of experts

Article A331-29

The Committee of Experts may hear any person it considers likely to enlighten its choices. Persons heard in this way do not take part in the deliberations of the Expert Committee and are bound by an o…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Definitive approval

Article D331-14

The application for final approval must be accompanied by the following supporting documents:1° An accounting document certified by an auditor indicating the final cost of the cinematographic or audio…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 900-4

…d even of his own motion, either reduce the quantity or periodicity of the benefits encumbering the gift, or modify its purpose by drawing inspiration from the intention of the grantor, or even group…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Obligations to declare accounts in Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article R721-11

In Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, credit institutions shall declare the opening, closure or modification of accounts on which cheques may be drawn and the opening, closur…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: General conditions of application of the Code in the Southern and Antarctic Territories

Article R711-7

Pursuant to 6° of article 1-1 of law no. 55-1052 of 6 August 1955, the provisions of the regulatory part of the present code apply ipso jure in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Treatment of over-indebtedness and payment incidents

Article R721-26

In New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer:1° Receives from the Banque de France the information it gathers under the provisions of Artic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Treatment of over-indebtedness and payment incidents

Article R721-27

In order to identify all the accounts held in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands by the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 131-72 and the second para…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Treatment of over-indebtedness and payment incidents

Article R721-28

In order to carry out the tasks assigned to the Banque de France by Article R. 131-42 in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer (French…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-22

…tion of video games set out in 3° and 4° of 1 of III of article 220 terdecies of the French General Tax Code is verified using a points scale. This scale is made up of an "Authors and creative collabo…

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