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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-11

Credit institutions and finance companies must have paid-up initial capital or a paid-up endowment, the minimum amount of which, between one million and five million euros depending on the authorisati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-19

When credit institutions having their head office abroad open offices for information, liaison or representation, the opening of these offices must be notified in advance to the Autorité de contrôle p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-9

Credit institutions are authorised as banks, mutual or cooperative banks, specialised credit institutions, credit and investment institutions or municipal credit funds.Banks may carry out all banking…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-20

I. - A parent undertaking is an undertaking which has exclusive control, within the meaning of article L. 233-16 of the Commercial Code, over one or more other undertakings or which exercises a domina…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 11: Intervention.

Article L511-66

Acceptance by intervention may take place in all cases where recourse is open before maturity to the bearer of an acceptable bill of exchange. Where a person has been indicated on the bill of exchange…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-7

…fficers are empowered to investigate and record infringements or breaches of the provisions: 1° Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on rail passenge…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 10: Marketing of structured deposits

Article L511-105

When they market structured deposits within the meaning of Article L. 312-22 or when they provide advice on these deposits, credit institutions are subject to the provisions of 2°, 3° and 6° of II of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L511-27

I. - Any credit institution having its registered office in France and wishing to establish a branch in another Member State shall notify the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of its pl…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers

Article L511-5

Officers are empowered to investigate and record infringements or breaches of the following provisions:1° Sections 1, 2, 5, 10, 11 and 12 of Chapter I of Title II of Book I;2° Sections 1 and 2 and sub…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article L511-6

Without prejudice to the specific provisions applicable to them, the prohibitions defined in Article L. 511-5 do not apply to the institutions and services listed in Article L. 518-1, nor to undertaki…

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