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

Article 421-15

…e decision to award writing aid for the project, unless a derogation is granted on the grounds of exceptional circumstances, external to the production company, directly affecting the completion of th…

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

Article 422-16

…year for other projects, from the date of the first payment, to submit the finished version to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. On reasoned request, this period may be extended by…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Consultative Commission

Article 443-1

…up of ten members chosen, for each session, from a list drawn up each year by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée.For each session, the Commission appoints a chairpers…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Civil status records

Article 1055-4

The operative part of the decision ordering the change of forename is forwarded without delay by the public prosecutor to the civil registrar holding the interested party's civil status records, in th…

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

Article 1031-4

In matters where representation is compulsory, any observations of the parties must be signed by a lawyer at the Conseil d'Etat and the Cour de cassation.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Individuals

Article 1144-4

The divorce agreement that fixes alimony or compensatory allowance in the form of a life annuity sets out the collection procedures and the rules for revising the claim, as well as the criminal penalt…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IX: Parental authority

Article 1208-4

The court hearing an application for a judicial declaration of parental abandonment shall rule in the same form and by the same judgment on the delegation of the exercise of parental authority.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IX: Parental authority

Article 1210-4

The central authority designated under the international and European instruments relating to the international wrongful removal of children shall transmit to the public prosecutor at the judicial cou…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IX: Parental authority

Article 1180-4

…horisation of both parents, is subject to obtaining the agreement of each of the parents in accordance with the procedures set out in II, III and IV of this article. II.-Each of the two parents, joint…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Inheritance and gifts

Article 1381-4

A decision to issue or refuse to issue a European Certificate of Succession may be referred to the president of the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the office of this public officer is locate…

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