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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Audit of operating accounts

Article L213-36

…itions of its depreciation and net revenues, the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée may carry out or have carried out by an independent expert an audit of the operating account drawn up by…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the classification committee

Article R211-34

The chairman and alternate chairman of the classification committee are appointed for a period of three years, renewable twice, by Prime Ministerial decree issued on the report of the Minister for Cul…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the classification committee

Article R211-30

…representing the Minister for the Interior, the Minister for Justice, the Minister for National Education, the Minister for the Family and the Minister for Youth respectively.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the classification committee

Article R211-31

The college of professionals is made up of nine full members and eighteen alternate members chosen by the Minister for Culture from leading figures in the film industry, after consultation with the ma…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the classification committee

Article R211-32

…ade up of: 1° Four full members and eight alternate members, chosen from leading figures in the medical world or specialists in the human sciences qualified in the field of child and adolescent protec…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the classification committee

Article R211-33

…re as follows:1° One full member and two alternate members proposed by the Minister for National Education;2° One full member and two alternate members proposed by the Minister for Youth;3° One full m…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition of the classification committee

Article R211-35

The full members and alternate members of the classification committee are appointed for a period of three years, renewable twice, by order of the Minister for Culture.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Entering into an innovation partnership

Article R2172-30

…on may take place in successive phases at the end of which certain tenderers are eliminated by application of the award criteria defined in the consultation documents. The purchaser shall indicate in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Municipal services

Article L2573-32

The communes and their groupings may create public establishments, called communal centres and inter-communal centres for social action, to intervene in matters of social action, in compliance with lo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Sales of immovable property.

Article R642-30

The order ordering the sale by amicable auction shall include, in addition to the information mentioned in Article R. 642-22, the statements required in 5° of

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