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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic foreign promotion account

Article 721-23

Sums held in the automatic foreign promotion account may also be invested to acquire the foreign exploitation rights to cinematographic works mentioned in 1°, 2° and 3° of article 721-6. These sums ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2

The judicial police officers and, on their orders and under their responsibility, the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in articles 20 and 21-1° may ask any person…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L622-7

I. - The judgment initiating the proceedings entails, ipso jure, a prohibition on the payment of any claim arising prior to the opening judgment, with the exception of payment by way of set-off of rel…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Award conditions

Article R5424-72-1

The trusted third party responsible for certifying the non-viable nature of the activity referred to in 3° of article L. 5424-25 may be, at the choice of the self-employed worker:-a chartered accounta…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Award conditions

Article R5424-71-1

For the application of the second sentence of 1° of Article L. 5424-27, the average monthly amount of income from the self-employed activity mentioned in 1° of Article R. 5424-70 is determined: 1° By…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Award conditions

Article R5424-72-2

I.-The non-viable nature of the activity referred to in 3° of article L. 5424-25 corresponds to a drop of at least 30% in the income declared by the self-employed person for income tax purposes corres…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Seizures without dispossession

Article 706-158

During the investigation in flagrante delicto or the preliminary investigation, the liberty and custody judge, at the request of the public prosecutor, may order by reasoned decision the seizure, at t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Compensation for the consequences of health risks

Article L1544-7

For the application in New Caledonia and French Polynesia of article L. 1142-17 : I. - The first three paragraphs of the article are replaced by the following provisions: When the damage is compensabl…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Risks covered.

Article A432-7

As regards the guarantee of the exchange rate risk relating to export transactions or to loans or credits granted to finance export transactions or export-related transactions, the loss or profit that…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article R225-77

The date after which voting forms received by the Company will no longer be taken into account may not be more than three days before the date of the General Meeting, unless a shorter period is provid…

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