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

Article 621-20

The application for aid must be submitted before filming begins.

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

Article 611-28

The decision to award a grant is taken on the advice of the Commission des aides à l'édition vidéographique.

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

Article 612-29

The decision to award a grant is taken on the advice of the Online Distribution Grants Committee.

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

Article 612-28

The application for aid must be submitted before any eligible expenditure is incurred.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Management of psychiatric emergencies

Article D6124-26-6

When an analysis of the activity of an emergency facility reveals a large number of patients requiring psychiatric care, the facility must have a psychiatrist on duty at all times. If this psychiatris…

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

Article 611-26

Selective financial assistance helps to cover the following publishing costs:1° Purchases and pre-purchases of exploitation rights and, where applicable, payment of guaranteed minimums;2° Expenditure…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Changes of forenames and surnames.

Article 61-2

The change of name extends automatically to the beneficiary's children when they are under thirteen.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-24

A person provisionally arrested under the conditions provided for in Article 696-23 shall be released if, within a period of thirty days from the date of his arrest, where this was carried out at the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-21

If the person claimed voluntarily evades the obligations of judicial supervision or house arrest under electronic surveillance or if, after having been released without judicial supervision or house a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-20

Release from judicial supervision, house arrest under electronic surveillance or modification thereof may be ordered at any time by the investigating chamber under the conditions set out in Article 19…

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