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

Article 421-25

The Documentary Innovation Grants Committee is made up of eleven members, including a chairman, appointed for a period of one year, renewable once.

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

Article 421-28

The reading committees consulted on projects that are the subject of an application for enhanced development aid are made up of one full member of the second college and two alternate members of the C…

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

Article 421-27

The reading committees consulted on projects for which a writing grant is requested include three alternate members of the committee.The agenda for the meetings and the choice of readers for each comm…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Misleading commercial practices

Article L132-5

Failure to carry out the corrective notices provided for in article L. 132-4 is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 euros.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Temporary work.

Article L1255-5

Failure by the user to comply with the prohibitions on the use of temporary work set out in Articles L. 1251-9 and L. 1251-10 is punishable by a fine of 3,750 euros. A repeat offence is punishable by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-5

The Minister for Health may withdraw the approval of a committee if the conditions of independence, composition or operation required to carry out its mission in the best possible conditions are no lo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: The guarantee fund for policyholders against the failure of life and health insurance companies.

Article L423-5

The guarantee fund is subrogated to the rights of policyholders, subscribers and beneficiaries of benefits, up to the amount of the sums it has paid.The guarantee fund is also subrogated, within the s…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Notification file

Article D261-5

Notification files are examined by staff who are subject to the ethical obligations set out in Chapter IV of Law no. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 on the rights and obligations of civil servants.

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R213-5

Failure by the third-party debtor required to make direct payment to pay the maintenance due to the creditor is punishable by the fines laid down for fifth-class offences.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Shareholdings in companies

Article L2253-5

Where, in a public limited company, a municipality is a member or chairman of the board of directors, a member of the management board or a member or chairman of the supervisory board, the civil liabi…

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