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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article R131-1-1

The Banque de France and the supervisory authorities for each category of institution concerned shall ensure that bankers comply with the provisions of this chapter, in accordance with the legislative…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Injunction and regularisation

Article R131-20

When the account holder has paid the amount of the unpaid cheque to the beneficiary, he must provide proof of payment by remitting the cheque to the drawee.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-31

…es, the drawee informs the Banque de France in a single notice of the regularisation of all incidents.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Information provided by the Banque de France to bankers, finance companies, electronic money institutions and payment institutions.

Article R131-44

…suing cheque forms to a new account holder for the first time. The answers must be kept for two years.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Financial sector advisory committees

Article L785-4

…ommunity regulation or directive before it is examined by the Council of the European Union" are deleted.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial and accounting system.

Article R121-18

The school's budget and annual accounts are drawn up for each year from 1st January to 31st December.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and operation.

Article R121-7

The company is administered by a Board of Directors and managed by a Chief Executive Officer.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Banknotes.

Article R122-9

…ment institution. For this purpose, these institutions shall only issue them with euro notes that meet the requirements of Article R. 122-7 or Article R. 122-8.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Penalties and suspicious transaction reports

Article L785-8

…article L. 229-7…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Other powers

Article L785-9

…Article L. 229-7…

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