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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Residence grants

Article 411-36

Selective financial aid is awarded jointly to writer-directors and creative residencies, in the form of a residency grant, for the rewriting of the script of a short film, when it is the writer-direct…

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

Article 422-3

The same person may not simultaneously apply for or receive more than three Diversity Images grants. Companies constituting a community of economic interests are considered to be the same person.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 411-30

The aid is awarded in the form of a grant.The aid is the subject of an agreement with the production company.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Subsidies

Article 411-35

…a rewriting grant has twelve months from the date of the award decision to submit a rewriting note and the reworked script to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée.In exceptional circums…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Award procedure and conditions

Article 442-3

Aid is awarded in the form of a grant.It may also be decided that the author(s) of the project will be mentored by a member of the committee.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and award conditions

Article 433-3

Aid recipients must have at least 50,000 subscribers to a single digital channel at the date of the aid application.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Expenditure

Article 4425-34

For the application of the provisions of 18° of Article L. 4425-29, the Corsican local authority shall depreciate its fixed assets, including those made available or allocated: 1° Intangible; > Tangib…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Consent to adoption

Article 348-4

…sent to the adoption of children under the age of two is valid only if the child has actually been handed over to the child welfare service, except in cases where there is a relationship of kinship or…

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

Article 397-4

…e accused is sentenced to unsuspended imprisonment, the court hearing the case pursuant to articles 395 et seq. may, regardless of the length of the sentence, order, on the basis of the elements of th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Involvement of third parties

Article 373-4

…ild has been entrusted to a third party, parental authority continues to be exercised by the father and mother; however, the person to whom the child has been entrusted performs all the usual acts rel…

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