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

Article 212-15

…is agreement is that provided for in article…

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

Article 212-14

…allocation awarded in application of article…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administration of Caisse des dépôts et consignations.

Article R518-29

Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations is authorised to cease to retain all records and documents relating directly or indirectly to payments of sums or remittances of securities or bills of exchange cons…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administration of Caisse des dépôts et consignations.

Article R518-28

…luding data, managed by the archives department of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, wherever and in whatever form these deposits are established. Notwithstandingarticle R. 212-1 of the French H…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Reimbursement of expenses

Article R2123-22-2

…of the Town Council may claim, on presentation of supporting documents, reimbursement of the travel and subsistence expenses they incur when travelling outside the territory of the municipality to tak…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures specific to the safeguarding, reorganisation or compulsory liquidation of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms

Article R613-20-2

On the basis of the documents and information provided by the debtor, the electronic money holders, the administrators appointed by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and by the cour…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: French UCITS portfolio management companies

Article L532-24-2

I. - A portfolio management company with its registered office in mainland France, the French overseas departments, the Department of Mayotte and Saint-Martin wishing to manage a UCITS established in…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 7: Investor information

Article L214-25

…inanciers defines the conditions under which general-purpose investment funds must inform investors and may be advertised, in particular by audiovisual means, or canvassed.The articles of association…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 8: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L214-26

Where one or more sub-funds are formed within a general-purpose investment fund, they are individually subject to the provisions of this Code governing that fund.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to securitisation undertakings

Article R214-235

The payment of sums due in respect of units issued by the fund is subordinated to the payment of sums due of any kind to holders of debt securities issued by the fund or to persons with whom loans hav…

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