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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Accounting and reporting requirements applicable to investment services providers

Article L533-8

Investment services providers shall keep, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers, relevant information relating to all transaction…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisational rules

Article L541-8

Financial investment advisers : 1° Provide themselves with the resources and procedures necessary to carry out their activities and implement these resources and procedures efficiently ; 2° When provi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-8

I. - When a person referred to in Article L. 561-2 is unable to meet the obligations laid down in Article L. 561-5 or Article L. 561-5-1, it shall not carry out any transaction, whatever the terms and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L571-8

Failure by the directors of a credit institution or finance company to publish the annual financial statements in accordance with the conditions set out in article L. 511-37 is punishable by a fine of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to investment service providers

Article L573-8

…d down in articles L. 551-3 and L. 551-4 shall be liable to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 18,000 euros. Failure by the manager to comply with the provisions of article L. 551-5 is punishable…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Payment service providers

Article L572-8

Failure by any manager of a payment institution to respond, after formal notice, to requests for information from the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR), obstructing the ACPR in a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the freezing of assets and the prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L562-8

The freezing orders and prohibitions provided for in Articles L. 562-2, L. 562-3, L. 562-3-1, L. 562-5, L. 712-4 and L. 712-10 or the freezing measures implemented by virtue of acts taken in applicati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition

Article L612-8

The supervisory board may set up one or more specialised committees from among its members and delegate to them the power to take individual decisions, under conditions laid down by decree in the Cons…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Trade union premises.

Article L2142-8

In undertakings or establishments with at least two hundred employees, the employer shall make available to the trade union sections common premises suitable for the performance of their delegates' du…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Secondment of employees to trade union organisations

Article L2135-8

A collective bargaining agreement, a collective branch agreement or a company agreement determines the conditions under which employees may be seconded to trade unions or employers' associations.

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