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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Accounting of the Banque de France

Article R144-5

Articles L. 123-12 to L. 123-14, the first paragraph of article L. 123-15 and articles L. 123-17 to L. 123-22 of the French Commercial Code as well as article R. 123-181, the second paragraph of artic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The General Council.

Article R142-5

The ministers mentioned in the third paragraph of article L. 142-2 are the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for the Budget.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article R131-51

…ent that is not based on one of the grounds provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 131-35 or written confirmation of such a stop payment, it sends the account holder a letter stating the r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Rules applicable to other payment instruments

Article D133-5

For the purposes of II of Article L. 133-26, a payment incident is any rejection of a payment order received by the payer's payment service provider due to a lack of funds or insufficient funds, regar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Special employee share ownership schemes.

Article R212-5

The rules relating to employee profit-sharing are set out in Chapter I of Title IV of Book IV of the Labour Code and in Decree no. 87-947 of 26 November 1987 setting the conditions for application of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: UCITS.

Article D214-5

The former SICAV, which retains the assets whose disposal would not be in the interests of the shareholders pursuant to Article L. 214-7-4, and the new SICAV have the same portfolio management company…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Negotiable debt securities.

Article D213-5

All negotiable debt securities issued under the same programme may be covered by a first demand guarantee under the conditions laid down by order of the Minister for the Economy. Where negotiable debt…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article R214-55

When a fund management company enters into forward purchase or sale transactions involving securities which are not admitted to trading on a financial instruments market within the meaning of I of art…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article R214-51

For the purposes of calculating the 15% limit referred to in 1° of II of article L. 214-28, the denominator is the higher of the following two amounts: the fund's net assets or the paid-up amount of s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article R214-54

…14-28 whose securities or rights are included in its assets; 2° May, notwithstanding article R. 214-56, sell equity or debt securities held for more than twelve months to an affiliated undertaking. In…

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