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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Tasks of approved professional associations

Article R519-41

The association shall carry out verifications of the evidence referred to in subsections 2 and 3 in accordance with an action plan proportionate to the number of its members and phased over time. This…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Internal organisation of approved professional associations

Article R519-50

The association adopts written procedures for preventing and managing conflicts of interest. It shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and its members of any links of any ki…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Conditions for admission to the profession

Article D522-1-1

The maximum amount of payment transactions referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 522-11-1 is set at three million euros per month. This ceiling applies to the average total amount, over the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Title II: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article D525-1

The amount specified in article L. 525-5 is set at 150 euros.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Approval and authorisation

Article R532-4

The period of time after which the AMF's silence on applications for professional certification from bodies organising examinations to verify the professional knowledge of natural persons placed under…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for investment firms and credit institutions providing investment services authorised in France

Article D532-23-2

…to carry on business;2° A programme of operations specifying in particular the investment services and related services that the company will provide in the host State and whether it plans to do so u…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for investment firms and credit institutions providing investment services authorised in France

Article D532-23-3

Where, pursuant to I of Article L. 532-24, an investment firm or credit institution wishes to provide custody account keeping services in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Specific rules concerning third countries for the management of FIAs

Article R532-34

I. - The period referred to in Article L. 532-9 is suspended while the European Securities and Markets Authority examines the notification provided for in Article L. 532-37.II. - Where the Autorité de…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules of good conduct and organisation

Article R519-31

…vities mentioned in article L. 511-6 when they may be useful in assessing the customer's background and, where applicable, the risk incurred. II. - Intermediaries must refrain from transmitting false…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Internal organisation of approved professional associations

Article R519-47

The association draws up a code of conduct setting out the rules applicable to its members. This code may be common to one or more approved associations. The association may ask the Autorité de contrô…

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