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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Shareholding and control.

Article D214-32-7-9

The AIF or its management company shall provide the AMF and the AIF's unitholders or shareholders with information relating to the financing of the acquisition of the company concerned.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions relating to aid intensity

Article 722-7

The total amount of financial aid awarded for the promotion of audiovisual works abroad may not exceed 50% of the expenditure incurred by the company in this respect.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
7: Information to be provided by the owner

Article 78

Whether it is a farm lease or a sharecropping lease, the owner is required, each time the lease is renewed or amended, to submit to the administration, within three months, a declaration indicating th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV: Procedure applicable to organised crime and delinquency and to felonies

Article 706-73

…ed crimes and offences of trafficking in human beings provided for by the articles 225-4-2 to 225-4-7 of the Penal Code; 6° Aggravated crimes and offences of procuring provided for by the articles 225…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Professional inadequacy

Article R6152-716

In the event of professional inadequacy, the contract may be terminated without compensation or notice, following the opinion of the hospital medical committee. Hospital practitioners seconded on cont…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Conservatory measures

Article 706-103

…event of an investigation being opened for one of the offences falling within the scope of articles 706-73,706-73-1and 706-74 and in order to guarantee payment of the fines incurred and, where applica…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Conservatory measures

Article 706-104

[Provisions declared unconstitutional by Constitutional Council decision no. 2004-492 DC of 2 March 2004.] [Provisions declared unconstitutional by Constitutional Council decision no. 2004-492 DC of 2…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Free credit

Article R341-7

The fact that an advertiser distributes or causes to be distributed advertising that does not comply with the obligations set out in the provisions of article L. 312-41 is punishable by a fine for a 5…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Simplified procedure

Article R41-7

If several offences and contraventions give rise to a single order, the accused shall pay the fixed procedural fee only once.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 6: Provisional arrest.

Article 728-70

The person is immediately released and the electronically monitored house arrest or judicial supervision is terminated if enforcement of the sentencing decision is refused or if the sentencing State w…

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