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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Weighting coefficients

Article 211-34

For entry into the automatic cinema production account, the sums calculated are weighted by a coefficient determined according to the number of points obtained by the cinematographic works on the scal…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Calculation for foreign operations

Article 211-32

The rate of calculation is set at 66% of the amount of the sums definitively entered in the automatic foreign promotion account of the foreign sales company.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 5: Reduction in calculation rates

Article 211-33

The calculation rates are reduced when they are applied on the occasion of the exploitation of edited cinematographic works, depending on the duration of the pre-existing filmed elements that are used…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The insurance certificate.

Article R211-21-2

For the application of article R. 211-21-1, any insurance company operating in the territory of the French Republic must issue, free of charge, a certificate for each of the vehicles covered by the co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L2315-6

In establishments with one or more installations subject to authorisation underArticle L. 512-1 of the Environment Code or subject to the provisions of Articles L. 211-2 and L. 211-3, Titles II to VII…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: General conditions of detention

Article D70

Finally sentenced persons are received in the prisons mentioned in article R. 112-15 of the Penitentiary Code or in the quarters of the penitentiary centres mentioned in article R. 112-16 of the same…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article R228-1

The intermediary mentioned in the seventh and eighth paragraphs of Article L. 228-1 declares its status as an intermediary registered on behalf of third parties, as soon as the account is opened, with…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application.

Article L4521-1

The provisions of this Title are applicable in establishments comprising at least one basic nuclear installation within the meaning of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L311-1

Authors and performers of works fixed on phonograms or videograms, as well as the producers of such phonograms or videograms, shall be entitled to remuneration in respect of the reproduction of the sa…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 211

I. - In limited liability companies that have not opted for the partnership tax regime under the conditions provided for in IV of Article 3 of Decree no. 55-594 of 20 May 1955 as amended and whose man…

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