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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-15-1

…at the company's request.It may also be decided ex officio by the Autorité in the following cases: 1° The company has obtained authorisation by making false declarations or by any other irregular mea…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Central depositories

Article L441-2

…archés financiers may appoint a provisional administrator for the central depositary referred to in 1° of I of Article L. 441-1, to whom all the powers of administration, management and representation…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Central depositories

Article L441-1

…depositories, and amending Directives 98/26/EC and 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 236/2012, are: 1° Central securities depositories authorised by the Autorité des marchés financiers; 2° Central sec…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article L511-6

…ocial reasons, grant loans on preferential terms to some of their members from their own resources; 1° bis. Associations governed by the law of 1st July 1901 relating to the contract of association or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-2

…other than those mentioned in I are subject to the obligation provided for in I. These issuers are :1° French issuers whose securities giving access to capital within the meaning of Article L. 212-7,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Public buy-out offers and squeeze-out

Article L433-4

…ciers sets the conditions applicable to the offer and squeeze-out procedures in the following cases:1° When the majority shareholder(s) of a company whose registered office is in France and whose shar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Takeover bids and public exchange offers

Article L433-1-2

…e, of the voting rights attached to the shares he holds in the company for the quantity exceeding : 1° The threshold of three-tenths of the capital or voting rights, if the draft offer has been filed…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-4

The obligations set out in Article L. 451-1-2 do not apply to the following issuers: 1° The States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and their local authorities; 2° The European Cen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-3-4

I. - This section applies to1° to financial instruments traded on a trading venue or for which a request for admission to trading on a trading venue has been submitted ;2° Financial instruments other…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Takeover bids and public exchange offers

Article L433-1

…a other than France when the equity securities of this company to which voting rights are attached :1° Are not admitted to trading on a regulated market in the State in which the company has its regis…

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