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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions relating to video game companies and video games

Article D331-19

For the purposes of I of article 220 terdecies of the French General Tax Code, a company is considered to be a video game creation company if, on the one hand, it is responsible for the artistic and t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation

Article R261-17

The Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée provides the material, human and financial resources required to carry out the tasks of the Commission de protection de l'accès aux œuvres (Commissio…

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

Article D331-14

…nominative social declaration provided for in Article R. 133-14 of the Social Security Code;5° (Deleted)6° A list of the names of the technical industries and other creative service providers used an…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Single chapter: Legal deposit obligation

Article R241-1

…er which the documents mentioned in article L. 131-2 of the French Heritage Code are deposited are set out in articles R. 131-1 to R. 131-7, R. 132-24 to R. 132-32 and R. 133-1 of the French Heritage…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Ethics

Article R261-12

…from publicly taking a position that could undermine the serenity of the Commission's work or their ethical obligations, or that could call into question the Commission's decisions.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Tax deductions and reductions for overseas investments

Article D333-1

…oductive investments made in the overseas departments, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and the French Southern…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R261-1

…of the French Intellectual Property Code, in particular by selling a business, transferring all assets and liabilities, making a partial contribution of assets or merging; 2° Acquire control, within…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Allocation of financial aid

Article D311-1

The general conditions for granting financial aid are set by deliberation of the Board of Directors of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in a consolidated document known as the "gener…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Société de financement de l'industrie cinématographique et audiovisuelle (financing company for the film and audiovisual industry)

Article D332-1

The rules relating to sociétés de financement de l'industrie cinématographique et audiovisuelle (Sofica) are set out in Articles 46 quindecies A to 46 quindecies F of Annex III to the General Tax Code…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Penalty procedure

Article R423-13

At the end of the meeting, the Chairman of the Regulatory Control Committee invites the defendant and, if applicable, his counsel to speak again before the Committee deliberates on the case.

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