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

Article 421-8

Selective financial aid is awarded to authors for writing an elaborate version of creative documentary projects.

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

Article 411-82

The same project may not give rise to the award of selective aid and: 1° Pre-production production aid or production programme aid provided for in this section, with the exception of projects giving r…

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

Article 621-8

Production expenditure corresponding to work carried out in France by companies established in France must amount to a minimum of:1° For cinematographic works: €1,000,000;2° For audiovisual works in t…

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

Article 622-8

The award of selective financial aid is subject to the provisions of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in a…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Availability of consultation documents

Article R3122-8

Any amendment to the consultation documents shall be communicated to all economic operators, to candidates admitted to submit a tender or to all tenderers, under conditions guaranteeing their equality…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article L642-8

In execution of the plan approved by the court, the liquidator or the administrator, where one has been appointed, shall take all necessary steps to complete the transfer. Pending the completion of th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Recommendations sent to subscribers

Article R331-8

The electronic communications operators mentioned in Article L. 34-1 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code are required to communicate, by interconnection to the automated processing o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The trade union committee.

Article L5212-8

The decision to establish or an amending decision may provide that the delegates appointed by the municipal councils of the communes that are members of the syndicat shall constitute a college for the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Presentation of declarations.

Article R123-84

Applications are drawn up in the forms defined by Article R. 123-3 and sent by the single body defined in Article R. 123-1 to the registry of the competent court.They are accompanied by the deeds and…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Presentation of declarations.

Article R123-88

The application for registration as a collaborating spouse shall be made by the person required to be registered in the terms provided for in 8° of article R. 123-37.

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