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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article L224-9

…mpany pension savings plan takes the form of a collective company pension savings plan, covered by sub-section 2 of this section, or a compulsory pension savings plan, covered by sub-section 3 of this…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article L224-12

…n the fifth paragraph of article L. 224-6 entails the transfer to the new manager of all the individual rights in the plan being set up. In the event of a change in the legal status of a company which…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Governance

Article L224-21

The plan rules set out the list of assets to which payments may be allocated. Where this list includes assets other than units in the company mutual funds mentioned in article L. 214-164, the plan rul…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter V: French sub-account of the pan-European individual retirement savings product

Article L225-1

Subject to the provisions of this chapter to the contrary, the French sub-account, within the meaning of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1238 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to UCITS, debt securitisation funds and property investment funds

Article L231-7

Promoters of a specialised finance fund or securitisation mutual fund are liable to two years' imprisonment and a fine of €750,000 if they invest in units of this fund without the approval of the fund…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to non-trading property investment companies

Article L231-16

Failure by the directors of a management company to request the appointment of one or more of the company's statutory auditors is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 9,000 euros.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Complementary local currency certificates

Article L311-6

Issuers and managers of complementary local currency securities are subject to Title I of Book V when the issue or management of these securities falls within the scope of the payment banking services…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Provisions relating to the provision or delivery of information or documents on any durable medium other than paper

Article L311-10

Where the professional provides the customer with information and documents via a secure personal space on the Internet, he shall inform the customer of the existence and availability of this informat…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1a: Banking inclusion and prevention of over-indebtedness

Article L312-1-1-A

The Association française des établissements de crédit et des entreprises d'investissement (French Association of Credit Institutions and Investment Firms), referred to in Article L. 511-29, adopts a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-5

Customers who are natural persons and not acting for professional purposes are informed free of charge, by means of their monthly account statement, of the amount and name of any bank charges relating…

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