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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Book III: Services

Article D330-4

…approval of a system referred to in 2°, 3° or 4° of I of Article L. 330-1 shall be made in writing and by any means that can be relied upon to provide a date certain to the Minister responsible for t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title I: Public offerings

Article D411-4

The threshold mentioned in 1° of article L. 411-2 is 150.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title V: Investor protection

Article D452-3

…artement in which the association has its registered office, after consulting the public prosecutor and the Autorité des marchés financiers. It is published in the Journal officiel de la République fr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Accounting provisions.

Article R511-6

Credit institutions and finance companies are required to close their financial year on 31 December. However, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may authorise them to derogate from t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Governance of credit institutions and finance companies

Article R511-24

…tion, in whole or in part, of the variable remuneration shall be defined by the credit institutions and finance companies in particular in consideration of the serious losses that they may cause to th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: French regulated markets.

Article R421-1

…ions of the third paragraph of Article L. 421-3, it shall immediately inform the market undertaking and shall then have a period of three months in which to make known its decision to confirm this mea…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: French regulated markets.

Article D421-6

The AMF draws up and maintains a list of French regulated markets. It shall communicate this list to the other Member States of the European Union and to the other States party to the Agreement on the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Operating conditions for regulated markets and market undertakings.

Article D421-7

…for in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 421-9 shall indicate separately the number of shares and the number of voting rights held in the market undertaking, calculated in accordance with the co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Operating conditions for regulated markets and market undertakings.

Article D421-9

The declarations provided for in the second paragraph of I of article L. 421-9 must be made within seven days of the threshold being crossed.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title II: Trading platforms

Article D423-3

…cts, when they have been approved by the competent supervisory authority in their country of origin and after the competent French authorities have ensured that the rules of competence, good repute an…

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