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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Combating illegal employment

Article 122-16

The Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée notes the failure of beneficiaries of financial aid to comply with their obligations relating to the fight against illegal employment, offences again…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Calculation for marketing in the form of videograms

Article 211-28

Sums are calculated for the marketing by sale or rental in the form of videograms intended for the private use of the public of cinematographic works for which production approval has been granted. Th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Calculation of sums entered in the automatic cinema exhibition account

Article 232-4

The sums entered in the automatic cinema exhibition account are calculated by applying rates to the proceeds of the tax provided for in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 511-12

The aid is awarded in the form of a grant, an advance or both.The choice of the form of aid and any resulting split between grant and advance are determined according to the characteristics of the wor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the issuing of a European protection order by the French authorities

Article 696-95

The public prosecutor shall transmit the European protection order to the competent authority of the executing State by any means that leaves a written record and under conditions that enable the addr…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Injunction procedures.

Article 1424-1

This section relates to the European order for payment procedure provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 creating a European orde…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Other applications of the Community arbitration procedure

Article R5121-51-8

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé or the applicant for marketing authorisation may refer the matter to the European Medicines Agency with…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-3-4

…use Regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC, which are not wholesale energy produc…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter V: Termination of the contract

Article L2195-5

Where a contract should not have been awarded to an economic operator on the grounds of a serious breach of the obligations laid down by European Union procurement law which has been recognised by the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Composition.

Article L2353-10

Where there is no trade union organisation in the European Company whose registered office is in France, employee representatives on the European Company Works Council are elected directly in accordan…

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