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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Control of video exhibition revenues

Article D222-3

…blication of videograms intended for private use by the public must visibly display the publisher's reference number allocated to them on each videogram they publish and on the cover.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Content of the contract

Article 1163

…determined or determinable. Benefit is determinable where it can be deduced from the contract or by reference to usage or the parties' previous relations, without the need for a new agreement by the p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Grounds for refusal of recognition and enforcement

Article 728-31

…or in Articles 728-32 and 728-33. The decision to refuse shall state the reasons for the refusal by reference to these same articles.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Supplementary provisions

Article L3122-23

…of hours for which a night worker must be qualified is set at two hundred and seventy hours over a reference period of twelve consecutive months.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 231-4

…se an average number of film screenings per cinema equal to or greater than 400 per year during the reference period defined in article…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article R612-74

…blished in the Official Bulletin of Industrial Property. This mention includes an indication of the reference to the number of the Official Bulletin of Industrial Property in which the patent applicat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Simplified extradition procedure

Article 696-25

Except where the provisions of this Title relating to the European arrest warrant apply, where a request for provisional arrest for the purposes of extradition emanates from a State party to the Conve…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 754

…int order under the conditions set out in Article 712-6. To this end, this magistrate may issue the warrants provided for in article 712-17. The decision of the sentence enforcement judge, which is pr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Technical protection and information measures

Article L331-5

Effective technological measures intended to prevent or limit uses not authorised by the holders of a copyright or a right related to copyright in a work, other than software, a performance, a phonogr…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Persons liable.

Article L211-1

Any natural person or any legal entity other than the State, who may be held liable for damage suffered by third parties as a result of personal injury or damage to property caused by a vehicle, must,…

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