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Showing 34713480 of 60748 articles for Art. CE 11-5-2021 n° 440044 and 440045

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-20-5

…authority within the meaning of Article 40 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and contrac…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-17-5

…nishable by the penalties laid down in Article 226-13 of the Criminal Code for the directors or officers of the persons mentioned in Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliamen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Powers

Article L621-18-5

…Article 18 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1031/2010 of 12 November 2010 on the timing, management and other aspects of the auctioning of greenhouse gas emission allowances. The General Regulation sp…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial securities.

Article D211-9-5

…stered intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-4 (3) may, under a general securities management mandate, transmit a shareholder's vote or proxy for a meeting of an undertaking for collective invest…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D214-32-5

…he end of the financial year. However, when the AIF publishes an annual financial report in accordance with I of article L. 451-1-2, this report is published no later than four months after the end of…

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

Article D214-80-5

…he same timeframe as that applicable to the annual report. This letter shall present, for each fund and, where there are earlier vintages of these funds, for each earlier vintage, and for each year of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Popular savings passbook account.

Article R*221-57

The competent administrative authority referred to in articles R. 221-55 and R. 221-56 is the Minister for the Economy.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Funding bodies

Article D214-240-5

The extract from the articles of association of the specialised finance company referred to in Article L. 214-190-2 shall be filed with the Trade and Companies Register. It shall be signed by the memb…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Sociétés civiles de placement immobilier (non-trading property investment companies), sociétés d'épargne forestière (forestry savings companies) and groupements forestiers d'investissement (forestry investment groups)

Article R214-176-5

…merger between several forestry investment groups or between one or more forestry investment groups and one or more forestry savings companies or between one or more forestry investment groups and one…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds.

Article R214-214-5

The assets of a fonds commun de placement d'entreprise mentioned in article L. 214-165-1 may include shares in sociétés anonymes à responsabilité limitée issued by companies governed by law no. 47-177…

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