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Showing 601610 of 28915 articles for Art. Cons. conc. n° 91-D-42 du 22 Oct 1991

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Conduct of the procedure

Article R631-42

…re the sale of all or part of the business has been ordered by the court pursuant to article L. 631-22, the mandataire judiciaire shall receive the sale price notwithstanding the execution of the deed…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Common provisions

Article R211-42

Members of classification committees and the classification commission, as well as agents authorised by the Minister for Culture, have free access, on presentation of a service card, to cinemas or any…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Programming projects representing programming commitments

Article R212-42

…Article R. 212-40 are reviewed annually by the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Approval of investments

Article 211-42

For the purposes of investment approval, feature films must meet the conditions set out in sub-section 2 of section 1 of this chapter.

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

Article 212-42

Production companies that have already produced, as delegated production companies, over the four years preceding the application, at least three French-initiative feature-length cinematographic works…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Commission for assistance with difficult programming

Article 231-42

The Commission des aides à la programmation difficile is made up of four members appointed, with the exception of the Chairman, for a renewable term of three years.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Calculation methods for fiction, animation and audiovisual adaptations of live performances

Article 311-42

…h French hourly expenditure equal to or greater than:1° €60,000 for works in the fiction genre;2° €122,000 for works in the animation genre;3° €54,000 for works in the audiovisual adaptation of a live…

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

Article 312-42

If the work belongs to the fiction genre, the project must have been awarded creation aid or rewriting aid.

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

Article 421-9

To be eligible for writing grants, authors must be French nationals or equivalent.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 5: Advisory Committee

Article 421-26

The Commission is made up of two colleges which sit separately.The first college, made up of the Commission Chairman and six other members, is responsible for examining applications for writing and de…

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