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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-14

The operator of a trading venue on which commodity derivatives are traded shall apply position management controls. These controls shall include, as a minimum, the power for the trading platform to: 1…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reporting of positions

Article L420-16

I. - Trading venue managers : 1° Publish a weekly report presenting the aggregate positions held by the different categories of persons mentioned in IV for the different commodity derivatives, the uni…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition of regulated market and market undertaking

Article L421-1

I.-A regulated market in financial instruments is a multilateral system that brings together or facilitates the bringing together of multiple third-party buying and selling interests in financial inst…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Growth market for small and medium-sized enterprises

Article L424-8

A financial instrument mentioned in 1 or 2 of II of Article L. 211-1 traded on a small and medium-sized enterprise growth market may only be traded on another small and medium-sized enterprise growth…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Definitions and scope of application

Article L411-2

…ing the provisions of the first sentence of the first paragraph of Article L. 411-1, the following public offers are authorised: 1° The offer of financial securities or shares exclusively to a restric…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Recognition, review and withdrawal of regulated market status

Article L421-5

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall propose to recognise the status of regulated market only if it is satisfied that the persons referred to in Article L. 421-7 are of sufficiently good repute,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Definitions and scope of application

Article L411-2-1

Special conditions may be attached to the following offers of financial securities or shares to the public: 1° A public offer of less than a certain amount. The total amount of the offer is calculated…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Quality of execution of transactions

Article L420-17

Each trading platform shall make available to the public at least once a year, free of charge, data relating to the quality of execution of the transactions executed on it.These periodic reports shall…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Freedom to provide services within the territory of Member States of the European Union or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L420-18

The operator of a trading platform shall notify the AMF of the list of Member States of the European Union or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area in which it intends to provide mean…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of directors and shareholders of market undertakings

Article L421-7-4

Market undertakings and their appointments committees shall call on a wide range of qualities and skills when recruiting the persons referred to in article L. 421-7 and, to this end, shall implement a…

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