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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 211-140

The decision to grant aid is taken after consultation with the Overseas Aid Committee.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Conditions relating to the amount of remuneration paid to authors, performers and producers

Article 211-19

…f this chapter as well as the aid mentioned in title II of book VI when, among the remuneration allocated directly or indirectly, to co-authors or their heirs or legatees who are natural persons, to p…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 6 : Provisions common to certain methods of acquiring French nationality

Article 21-27-1

…h nationality by decision of the public authority or by declaration, the person concerned shall indicate to the competent authority the nationality or nationalities he or she already holds, the nation…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Exemptions granted by the mayor

Article R3132-21

The decision of the Mayor or, in Paris, of the Prefect of Paris relating to the derogation from Sunday rest for retail businesses provided for in article L. 3132-26, is taken after consultation with t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-20

…guage or one of whose official languages is French, or if French is their mother tongue, or if they can prove that they have attended a school teaching in French for at least five years..

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-22

…ined a foreigner even though one of his or her parents has acquired French nationality if he or she can prove that he or she has resided in France with that parent for the five years preceding the sub…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-24

No one may be naturalised unless they can prove that they are assimilated into the French community, in particular through sufficient knowledge, depending on their condition, of the French language, h…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-25

The conditions under which the assimilation and state of health of foreign nationals awaiting naturalisation will be checked will be laid down by decree.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 212-2

…st of the public prosecutor and in a reasoned decision, if it considers that the civil party's application was abusive or dilatory, order a civil fine against the civil party, the amount of which may…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-21

…identity of individuals, this identity may only be revealed once the matching operations have been carried out, and only for those items of data which have actually been matched with each other or wi…

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