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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 212-12

Direct grants, which may be accumulated, are awarded when the project meets the following conditions: 1° The project is developed jointly by at least two production companies, each meeting the conditi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Open-ended employment contracts

Article L1254-21

I.-The employment contract includes the clauses and information relating to the relationship between the company providing the freelance administration services and the supported employee: 1° The meth…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of the budget

Article D6262-21

When the initial budgets for the financial years during which the deficit is to be absorbed do not show sufficient measures for this absorption, the territorial audit chamber, to which these budgets h…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of the budget

Article D6362-21

When the initial budgets for the financial years during which the deficit is to be absorbed do not show sufficient measures for this absorption, the territorial audit chamber, to which these budgets h…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions.

Article R4113-21

When the health insurance funds have decided to exclude one or more members practising within the company from the agreement provided for in articles L. 162-5 or L. 162-9 of the Social Security Code,…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The insurance certificate.

Article R211-21-6

The provisions of articles R. 211-21-1 to R. 211-21-5 do not apply in the cases mentioned in the last paragraph of article R. 211-14 and to the persons mentioned in articles R. 211-22 and R. 211-23.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Dormant accounts

Article L312-21

If I of article L. 312-5 is implemented, any sums due to holders of dormant accounts, within the meaning of article L. 312-19, are deposited by the fonds de garantie des dépôts et de résolution at the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Investigation assistants

Article 21-3

Investigation assistants are recruited from among members of the technical and administrative support corps of the national gendarmerie, category B administrative staff of the national police and the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: "My Training Activity" information system

Article R6351-21

The rights of access and rectification provided for in Articles 15 and 16 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals wi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 210 D

The capital gains that may arise from a transaction referred to in article 48 of law n° 78-763 of 19 July 1978 on the status of sociétés coopératives de production are taxable in the name of the socié…

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