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

Article 611-26

Selective financial assistance helps to cover the following publishing costs:1° Purchases and pre-purchases of exploitation rights and, where applicable, payment of guaranteed minimums;2° Expenditure…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 660

The Criminal Division may, before ruling on the case, order that the application be communicated to the parties. In this case, the pleadings shall be transmitted to it, within the time limit set by it…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Procedure in the event of an appeal

Article 712-11

The decisions of the sentence enforcement judge and the sentence enforcement court may be appealed by the sentenced person, by the public prosecutor and by the public prosecutor, as from their notific…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Rules applicable to training hours

Article L6321-7

In the cases provided for in 1° and 2° of article L. 6321-6, the employee's refusal to participate in training activities outside working hours or the termination of the agreement under the conditions…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 74-2

Officers of the judicial police, assisted where necessary by agents of the judicial police, may, on the instructions of the public prosecutor, carry out the acts provided for in the Articles 56 to 62…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 6: Information to be provided to the public

Article L385-7-2

Article L. 533-22-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code applies to supplementary occupational pension funds.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 6: Information to be provided to the public

Article L385-7-1

I.-The provisions of I of article L. 533-22 of the Monetary and Financial Code are applicable to supplementary occupational pension funds, insofar as they invest in shares admitted to trading on a reg…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Service.

Article 661

The competent authority shall inform the judicial officer of the steps taken; it shall send him, where appropriate, any minutes or receipts recording the delivery of the document. These documents shal…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Service.

Article 664

No service may be made before six o'clock and after twenty-one o'clock, nor on Sundays, public holidays or non-working days, except by permission of the judge in case of necessity.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Judgments of the Cour de cassation

Article 605

The Cour de cassation, before ruling on the merits, investigates whether the appeal has been properly lodged. If it considers that the legal conditions have not been met, it issues, depending on the c…

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