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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 612-6

Publishers of catch-up television services are not eligible for financial support for online distribution of cinematographic and audiovisual works.Public institutions and their subsidiaries are not el…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and award conditions

Article 622-6

Selective grants are awarded and their amount is determined on the basis of:1° The quality and originality of the graphic design;2° The match between the technical choices made for the animation and t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Role of the departmental prefect

Article R322-8

In the cases mentioned in article R. 322-6, the Prefect shall order an investigation to establish the circumstances in which the accident occurred or in which the situation became apparent.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter I ter: Approved management centres, management and accounting associations, approved associations of the liberal professions and approved joint management bodies

Article 1649 quater E bis

Members of approved management centres are required to accept payment either by bank card or by cheque. In the latter case, they must make the cheques payable to themselves and not endorse them unless…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other missions of general interest and other activities

Article L141-8

The following may hold accounts with the Banque de France: 1. The organisations defined in article L. 511-1; 2. The French Treasury, the Institut d'émission des départements d'outre-mer, the Institut…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-34

The file shall retain for a period of three years information relating to the recordings and interrogations to which it is subject, specifying the capacity of the person or authority who carried out t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Cheque payment incidents

Article D734-8

Article D. 131-25 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, as amended by Decree no. 2007-1611 of 16 November 2007.

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 6: Public access to forests.

Article D343-6

Article R. 222-5 of the French Forestry Code sets out the rules for defining the objectives for welcoming the public to the forest.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Consumer credit

Article R341-6

A failure by the lender to comply with the formalities prescribed in article L. 312-32 is punishable by the fine laid down for 5th class offences.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Status of attached practitioners

Article R6152-600

The provisions of this section shall remain applicable only to practitioners attached in post on the date of publication of Decree no. 2022-135 of 5 February 2022 relating to the new rules applicable…

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