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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Statutory auditors

Article L511-39

I. - The provisions of articles L. 225-38 to L. 225-43 of the French Commercial Code apply to all credit institutions and finance companies.For the application of article L. 225-40 of the same code, w…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Combating alcoholism and smoking.

Article L3822-4

Title I of Book V of this Part shall apply in the Territory of Wallis and Futuna as amended by Order No 2016-623 of 19 May 2016 transposing Directive 2014/40/EU on the manufacture, presentation and sa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Housing finance companies

Article L513-29

I. - To achieve their purpose, housing finance companies may:1° Grant loans to any credit institution guaranteed by the remittance, assignment or pledging of the receivables referred to in II, in acco…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Provisions applicable to communes in the departments of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion

Article L2563-2-1

The total amount of the flat-rate allowance for the municipalities in the overseas departments is increased in 2001 by a sum of 40 million francs, taken from the development allowance instituted in ar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Withdrawal of authorisation and deregistration of investment firms

Article L532-6

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may withdraw the authorisation of an investment firm at the request of the firm. It may also be decided ex officio by the AMF in the following case…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Housing finance companies

Article L513-30

I. - To finance the operations referred to in Article L. 513-29, housing finance companies may issue bonds called housing finance bonds benefiting from the privilege defined in Article L. 513-11 and r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-5

Financial holding companies and parent undertakings of finance companies are subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of Article L. 511-13, Article L. 511-21 and Articles L. 511-33 to L. 511-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Enforcement measures

Article L633-12

I. - If the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, when appointed as coordinator, finds that the regulated entities of a financial conglomerate comply with the requirements referred to in A…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Fundamental missions

Article L141-6-1

…de France becomes aware, in the course of its duties, of an emergency situation as defined in Article L. 613-20-5, it shall alert as soon as possible the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolut…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article L22-10-42

The commercial court within whose jurisdiction the company has its registered office may, at the request of the principal and for a period not exceeding three years, deprive the agent of the right to…

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