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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 6: Access to the cinema

Article L212-29

…ny cinema exhibitor who joins an approved access formula is subject to the conditions of the approval. Any exhibitor who does not benefit from the guarantee provided for in article L. 212-30 is oblige…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Tax on admission prices to screenings organised by cinema operators

Article L115-3

The tax is payable on a monthly basis per cinema, for the cinema weeks completed during the month in question and during which at least two screenings were organised. However, for the months of Decemb…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation to operate as an operator

Article L212-2

…s to operate a cinema must hold a licence granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. Any person whose purpose is to organise travelling film shows is considered to…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Projects subject to authorisation

Article L212-8

For the purposes of assessing the thresholds mentioned in article L. 212-7, cinemas that are grouped together on the same site and which ... are considered to be part of the same cinema, whether or no…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Financial and accounting provisions

Article L114-2

Each year, the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée draws up a report, which gives an account of the forecast yield and use of the taxes and levies and other products that it collects or tha…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Tax on television service publishers and distributors

Article L115-7

…to the taxpayers concerned. The sums paid by a person mentioned in the third paragraph of article L. 115-6 to a publisher mentioned in the first paragraph of the same article L. 115-6 are included i…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Tax on television service publishers and distributors

Article L115-12

…art…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Recovery and control

Article L115-20

…arti…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Lien and enforcement of pledges

Article L124-3

Under penalty of nullity, no sale by public auction, whether voluntary or forced, of a cinematographic or audiovisual work or of any of its components may be carried out until fifteen days after a sum…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Relocation of film screenings

Article L212-18

…e establishment, he must make a prior declaration to the president of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. For operators who carry out a touring activity, moving film screenings means m…

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