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

Article 223-29

Structural aid is subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Uni…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Accounting obligations applicable to certain traders.

Article L123-28-2

…hey do not employ any employees and when they have registered a total and temporary cessation of activity with the Trade and Companies Register. The derogation no longer applies if the business is res…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-2

I. - The portfolio management companies of the AIFs mentioned in 1° and 2° of II of this article and the portfolio management companies of UCITS determine the remuneration policies and practices of th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The High Council for Financial Stability

Article L631-2-2

…ks defined in Article L. 631-2-1, the Haut Conseil de stabilité financière may interview representatives of credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms, portfolio management companies, in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Reimbursement of travel and subsistence expenses

Article R2123-22-2

Members of the Town Council may claim, on presentation of supporting documents, reimbursement of the travel and subsistence expenses they incur when travelling outside the territory of the municipalit…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Purge

Article 2464

…due or not, forthwith, but up to the price stipulated in the deed of acquisition or, if he has received the property by gift, the value he declares.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Purge

Article 2471

…ty purchaser against his authors, for compensation for the damage he would suffer, either from the division of the objects of his acquisition, or from that of the holdings.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Purge

Article 2461

The property is, ipso jure, purged of the droit de suite attached to the mortgage in the cases provided for by law, in particular the sale on seizure of property, expropriation for public utility or t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Purge

Article 2467

…ditor requests the auction within the prescribed time and form, the value of the property is definitively fixed at the stipulated price or the declared value. The property is consequently released fro…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Purge

Article 2472

…tion. If a pledgee and a mortgagee make a higher bid, only the higher bid of the mortgagee is effective. By the effect of payment or deposit made pursuant to the second paragraphs of articles 2463 or…

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