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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operating rules

Article L214-16

…merger, a foreign UCITS approved in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 is absorbed by a French UCITS covered by this section, the merger…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22-2

I. - Where the feeder UCITS and the master UCITS do not have the same depositary, the depositaries of each of these two bodies shall enter into an information exchange agreement in order to ensure the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22-4

…or the activity of the master UCITS. In order to fulfil this obligation, it may rely on information and documents received from the master UCITS or, where applicable, from the management company, the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Custodian

Article L214-24-9

The custodian may not delegate to third parties the functions conferred upon it by I and III of article L. 214-24-8.The custodian may delegate asset safekeeping functions to third parties under the co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Shareholding and control

Article L214-24-23

…ol : 1° Of a company whose registered office is established in a Member State of the European Union and whose shares are not admitted to trading on a regulated market in a Member State of the European…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: General rules governing general-purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-39

Unitholders are liable for the debts of the co-ownership only up to the amount of the fund's assets and in proportion to their share.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: General rules governing general-purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-41

The redemption by the fund of its units and the issue of new units may be temporarily suspended by the management company when exceptional circumstances so require and if the interests of the unithold…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 8: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L214-26-1

In accordance with the conditions laid down in the general regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers, the fund rules or articles of association of a general-purpose investment fund may reserv…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Assessment

Article L214-24-15

…who is either a natural person or a legal entity independent of the AIF or its management company and of any other person with close links to the AIF or the management company;2° The AIF or its mana…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operating rules

Article L214-17-2

…ised, less or increased by the balance of the gains equalisation account.The sums referred to in 1° and 2° may be distributed, in whole or in part, independently of each other.The distributable sums a…

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