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

Article 311-102

A minimum of ten days' work is required for music videos, covering all of the following positions: director, cinematographer, editor, colourist, animator, graphic designer and set designer, including…

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

Article 311-101

I. - Music videos must be produced with the assistance of:1° Authors and technical creative collaborators who are French nationals or assimilated;2° Technical industries established in France or on th…

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

Article 311-100

To be eligible for financial support, music videos must be produced by delegated production companies that hold the intellectual property rights for at least two distinct modes of exploitation, at lea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Summons to appear, immediate appearance and deferred appearance

Article 397-1-1

In the cases provided for in article 395, if there are sufficient charges against the person to bring him before the criminal court, but the case is not ready to be tried under the immediate appearanc…

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

Article 311-16

Audiovisual works must be produced by delegated production companies.For the purposes of granting aid for the production of the same work, this status may only be granted to a maximum of two productio…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Intervention by the guardianship judge

Article 387-1

The legal administrator may not, without the prior authorisation of the guardianship judge:1° Sell by mutual agreement a property or a business belonging to the minor;2° Bring into partnership a prope…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 39-1

Taking into account the specific context of his jurisdiction, the public prosecutor implements the criminal policy defined by the general instructions of the Minister of Justice, specified and, where…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: The decision on the civil action

Article 371-1

The court may reserve its decision on the civil action. It may also, after hearing the observations of the parties, postpone this decision to a later hearing, the date of which it shall fix. This post…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: The decision on the civil action

Article 375-1

The civil party is treated in the same way as the witness with regard to the payment of compensation, unless the court decides otherwise.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: The decision on the civil action

Article 373-1

In the event of a sentence of confiscation relating to property that is not in the hands of the law, the court ruling without the assistance of jurors may, in order to guarantee the execution of this…

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