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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Pre-implementation and post-implementation aid committees

Article 211-143

A committee is responsible for examining applications for pre-production support for a director's second or third feature film. It has seven members, including two co-chairmen.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Pre-implementation and post-implementation aid committees

Article 211-151

The costing committee responsible for proposing the amount of aid is made up of one of the co-chairmen of each commission. For each project, the co-chair of the relevant committee has the casting vote…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Brevet professionnel de la jeunesse, de l'éducation populaire et du sport (vocational qualifications in youth, popular education and sport)

Article D212-27-1

Persons are admitted to prepare, by means of initial training, for the vocational diploma in youth, popular education and sport covered by article L. 212-1, in an accredited training body mentioned in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to samples taken for the purposes of investigating offences

Article R512-16-2

…ls may order, where applicable under the conditions set out in article L. 512-16, of goods in order to submit them to controls.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to the issuing of a European Investigation Order by the French judicial authorities

Article D47-1-2

…f the judicial authorities mentioned in Article 694-20 is drafted using the form set out in Annex A to Directive 2014/41/EU of 3 April 2014 on the European Investigation Order in criminal matters.It s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Single integration contract

Article L5522-2-1

…134-19-3 -The single integration contract takes the form of :"1° For employers in the non-profit sector mentioned in Article L. 5134-21, the employment support contract defined by Section 2 of Chapter…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: The audit incident.

Article 288-1

Where the electronic signature enjoys a presumption of reliability, it is for the judge to say whether the evidence available to him justifies the reversal of that presumption.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title VII: Provisions specific to the Cour de cassation.

Article 1009-2

…ordering the striking off. It shall be interrupted by an act unequivocally expressing the intention to enforce.The First President or his delegate may, even of his own motion, after inviting the parti…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title VII: Provisions specific to the Cour de cassation.

Article 1015-2

When the Cour de cassation invites a person to submit general observations on the points it determines pursuant to article L. 431-3-1 of the Code of Judicial Organisation, the latter may make written…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Conditions for admission to the profession

Article D522-1-2

The minimum capital of the payment institutions referred to in article L. 522-11-1 is set at 40,000 euros.

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