French Monetary and Financial Code
In forceI. - UCITS shall transmit, either directly or via the management company which manages them, the information concerning them to an approved body with legal personality responsible for managing a single market repository. This body is responsible for collecting, processing and disseminating this information. It brings together the professions involved in UCITS management. This body is approved, on the basis of its articles of association, by order of the minister responsible for the economy.
An order of the Minister responsible for the economy shall determine the list of information referred to in this I which is made public and may be relied upon by third parties and, among this list, the information whose provision or dissemination for the benefit of investors, third parties or the Autorité des marchés financiers on the single market repository referred to in this I shall have the effect of discharging the obligations of the UCITS or the management company which manages it.
II. - The registration of UCITS and their classes of units or shares gives rise to the payment by the UCITS to the approved body referred to in I of annual registration fees set by order of the Minister for the Economy in the light of the information provided by this approved body, up to a limit of €500 applicable to each class of units or shares.
III. - The board of directors of the approved body referred to in I may decide that UCITS or the management companies that manage them shall transmit to the single market repository information other than that provided for by the order referred to in I above. The list of this information is made public.
