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Showing 36613670 of 65950 articles for Art. CJUE 30-9-2021 aff. 299/20 and ord. 10-2-2022 aff. 191/21

French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Increased rates for calculating sums representing automatic aid

Article 919-13

…two successive periods under the following conditions:1° By 65% for the period between 14 July 2021 and 10 August 2021;2° By 45% for the period between 11 August 2021 and 28 September 2021.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: New horizontal aid to compensate for reduced activity

Article 919-89

…f aid may not exceed that of the actual loss of turnover recorded over the period between 1 January and 30 June 2021 compared with the average turnover achieved between 1 January and 30 June in 2017,…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 2: Apprehension in the hands of a third party

Article R222-10

The delivery or apprehension shall be recorded in accordance with the provisions of article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article R5141-96

…on, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and the company operating the veterinary medicinal product of any suspected serious adverse reaction…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article R5141-95

…y ask veterinary pharmacovigilance centres to carry out veterinary pharmacovigilance investigations and work. It may also ask the poison control centres mentioned in article L. 6141-4 to provide it wi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety)

Article R5141-94

…travail is responsible for implementing the national veterinary pharmacovigilance system. It leads and coordinates the actions of the various parties involved. It compiles the information collected a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Appeals against judgments on jurisdiction and the merits of the case

Article 90

Where the court has declared itself to have jurisdiction and has ruled on the merits of the dispute in the same judgment given at first instance, that judgment may be appealed against in its entirety.…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Appeals against judgments on jurisdiction and the merits of the case

Article 91

Where the court has declared that it has jurisdiction and has ruled on the merits of the dispute in the same judgment given at last instance, the judgment may be appealed against solely on the questio…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article A310-10

…body or authority authorised to receive the lodgement of claims or observations relating to claims and any other measures. The note also indicates whether creditors whose claims are preferential or s…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Assessment of duties and taxes.

Article 109

The duties and taxes payable for each item on the same declaration and the duties and taxes levied as in customs matters are rounded down to the nearest franc.

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