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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to film club screenings

Article D214-4

The authorisation to disseminate culture through cinema provided for in 2° of…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Reduced rate

Article 278 sexies A

…works: 1° Work to extend the premises or to bring the building to a new state within the meaning of 2° of 2 of I of Article 257, relating to: a) Social rental housing covered by an agreement under whi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R4216-2-3

…ent number of exits, as provided for in article R. 4216-8, which are accessible to disabled people; 2° It has at least two compartments, as referred to in article R. 4216-27, with sufficient capacity…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Recovery and control

Article L115-20

…s of receipt of a formal notice, served by registered post, to file the return within that period ; 2° 40% where the declaration has not been filed within thirty days of receipt of a formal notice, se…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial assistance.

Article L5134-72-2

When work integration assistance has been granted for the recruitment of an employee who, prior to his or her recruitment, was in receipt of the revenu de solidarité active (active solidarity income)…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R5121-138-2

…he retail dispensing of medicinal products: 1° To verify the authenticity of the medicinal product; 2° To identify individual boxes of medicinal products. III -The tamper-evident device enables the in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Withdrawal of approval

Article R383-1

…takings referred to in Article L. 310-2", "undertakings" or "insurance or reinsurance undertakings";2° The reference to Article L. 321-1 is replaced by the reference to Article L. 382-1, the reference…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Administration and control

Article L1524-1

On pain of nullity, the deliberations of the board of directors or supervisory board and general meetings of local semi-public companies are communicated within one month of their adoption to the repr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
34°: Tax credit for forestry investments

Article 200 quindecies

…out in the second paragraph of this 1° for the case where a simple management plan can be applied; 2° Subscriptions or cash acquisitions of shares in forestry groupings that have undertaken to apply…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Reduction of sentences

Article 721-1-1

Persons sentenced to a custodial sentence for one or more of the offences mentioned in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Penal Code, excluding those defined in articles 421-2-5 to 421-2-5-2 of the same c…

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