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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The company pension savings plan

Article D224-12-1

For the application of article L. 224-24, a compulsory inter-company retirement savings plan may be set up by several companies for the benefit of all their employees or one or more categories of empl…

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

Article D312-1-1

I.-Credit and payment institutions are required to use the following names:A.-List of the most representative services attached to a payment account :1° Subscription to remote banking services (intern…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Assignment and pledging of trade receivables.

Article R313-17-1

…a partnership contract or a contract mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 6148-5 of the Public Health Code, the notification is made to the assigning public accountant designated in the cont…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Loans to businesses.

Article D313-14-1

The minimum notice period referred to in the second sentence of the first paragraph of article L. 313-12 is sixty days for all categories of credit.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Loans to businesses.

Article R313-14-1

The public bodies referred to in article L. 313-13 are State-owned industrial and commercial public bodies whose purpose authorises them to participate in the financing of economic activity.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Popular banks.

Article R512-1-1

The central body of the caisses d'épargne et des banques populaires may authorise the banques populaires to incorporate a portion of their reserves into their share capital. Such incorporation may onl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article R511-17-1

Where they have a website, credit institutions and finance companies shall use it to present the systems implemented to ensure compliance with the requirements laid down in Article L. 511-45, in this…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions.

Article R511-16-1

Credit institutions and finance companies disclose in their annual reports the return on their assets, calculated by dividing their net profit by their balance sheet total.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions of access and practice

Article R519-11-1

Where the professional training or experience required under articles R. 519-8, R. 519-9 and R. 519-10 is acquired in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreem…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions of access and practice

Article R519-15-1

The banking and payment services intermediaries referred to in I and III of article R. 519-4 shall ensure that their staff who carry out credit intermediation activities referred to in article L. 313-…

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