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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-18-2

…n Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (Market Abuse Regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-20-1

…the public prosecutor and forward to the latter all information, reports and documents relating thereto. Subject to the provisions of the third paragraph of Article L. 632-16, the public prosecutor ma…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article L621-15-2

…de, the Autorité des marchés financiers, on its own initiative or following a referral from the competent authorities, shall immediately notify the competent authority of the State in which the instit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Cooperation with the Commission de Régulation de l'Energie and the bodies responsible for physical agricultural markets

Article L621-21-1

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall cooperate with the competent bodies for the supervision, management and regulation of the physical agricultural markets, designated under the conditions laid…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Injunctions, emergency measures and other measures

Article L621-13-2

The Autorité des marchés financiers may require the suspension, on a temporary basis, of the redemption of units or shares or the issue of new units or shares in an undertaking for collective investme…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Provisions specific to the Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L632-11-2

…ral or legal persons, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall cooperate with the International Monetary Fund, the Financial Stability Board, the Bank for International Settlements, the International…

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

Article R131-21-1

…cheque is deemed to constitute regularisation of the incident. The drawer provides proof of this deletion to the drawee by submitting the certificate referred to in articles R. 733-18 and R. 743-1 of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Bank staff.

Article R142-21-1

…Article L. 142-9 of the present Code, the General Council of the Banque de France draws up the budget allocated each year to social and cultural expenditure. The overall contribution of the Banque de…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Investment ratios

Article D214-22-1

…its in undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities governed by French law marketed in France or in undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities governed by f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Rules applicable to financial contracts, temporary acquisitions and sales of financial instruments and guarantees

Article R214-15-2

I. - When an eligible financial security or money market instrument referred to in article L. 214-20 includes a financial contract which simultaneously meets the three conditions mentioned below, the…

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