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Showing 17811790 of 27836 articles for Art. Décret n° 2021-300 du 18 mars 2021

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

Article 211-49

Approval of investments is also required: 1° For the payment of pre-production production aid and production aid for genre films; 2° For the admission of cinematographic works produced as part of inte…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R773-21

…hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 533-1-Bn° 2021-941 of 15 July 2021R. 533-1 and R. 533-2law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013R. 533-2-2no. 2014-1…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R774-21

…hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the version resulting from the decreeR. 533-1-Bn° 2021-941 of 15 July 2021R. 533-1 and R. 533-2law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013R. 533-2-2no. 2014-1…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R775-20

…hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 533-1-Bn° 2021-941 of 15 July 2021R. 533-1 and R. 533-2law no. 2013-672 of 26 July 2013R. 533-2-2no. 2014-1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Disciplinary safeguards

Article R6153-33

…alière de France;3° Two members of the permanent teaching and hospital staff, covered by decree no. 2021-1645 of 13 December 2021 relating to teaching and hospital staff in university hospital centres…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Deeds relating principally to loans, debts and securities involved in economic activity

Article A444-138

…nsforming the last conventional mortgage registered prior to the entry into force of the ordonnance n° 2006-346 du 23 mars 2006, into a rechargeable mortgage, according to the following scale:Tranches…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L1543-1

…s Chapter.Article L. 1271-2 is applicable in French Polynesia in the version resulting from Law no. 2021-1017 of 2 August 2021.The second paragraph of the same article is applicable in New Caledonia a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exceptional aid to help offset the loss of revenue resulting from the introduction of the health pass

Article 919-54

…ct allocation is set by applying the following flat-rate amounts to admissions made between 14 July 2021 and 28 September 2021:- 0.75 € per entry for the fraction of entries less than or equal to 50,0…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Support measures for authors of fictional or animated cinematographic works

Article 919-1

By way of derogation from 1° of article 212-5, for applications submitted in 2021, financial assistance for the development of projects may be awarded to authors who have collaborated on the productio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section

Article R1244-6

…or donations made before the first day of the thirteenth month following the promulgation of Law No 2021-1017 of 2 August 2021 on bioethics, the donor file mentioned in Article R. 1244-5 of this Code…

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