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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Possibilities for grouping company pension savings plans

Article L224-27

…ph. This plan covers all the employees of the company and may receive the payments mentioned in 1°, 2° and 3° of article L. 224-2, which may be reserved for one or more categories of employees, provid…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Special payment rules

Article L224-20

…collective company retirement savings plan must be able to receive the payments mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L. 224-2, made in cash. The plan must also be able to receive sums from the compulsory…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1

Article L223-2

Only the following may issue savings bonds1° Credit institutions ;2° Natural persons and companies that operate as traders and have drawn up the balance sheet for their first financial year.Savings bo…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Availability of savings

Article L224-5

…esponding to the sums mentioned in 3° of article L. 224-2 are issued in the form of a life annuity; 2° The rights corresponding to the other payments are delivered, at the choice of the holder, in the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-4

…id accounts, within the limit of an amount set by order of the Minister responsible for the economy;2° Obtain the closure of the deceased's accounts and the payment of the sums contained therein, if t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Governance

Article L224-22

…social and governance factors, assessed according to criteria defined by the Supervisory Committee; 2° On the allocation of the savings to which the payments are assigned unless the holder expressly d…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Right to an account

Article L312-1

…ey do not have such an account in France:1° Any natural person or legal entity domiciled in France ;2° Any natural person legally resident in another Member State of the European Union and not acting…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Definition of operations for providing customers or managing means of payment

Article L311-4

The activities mentioned in 2° to 7° of III of article L. 314-1 are not considered to be the provision or management of means of payment.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Provisions specific to securitisation companies

Article L214-179

…out a quorum being required; the same applies, on second call, to the extraordinary general meeting;2° The same natural person may simultaneously hold five offices as managing director, member of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Other collective investments

Article L214-191

…ny set up by a single person and whose articles of association expressly prohibit multiple members ;2° A société de placement à prépondérance immobilière à capital variable (real estate investment com…

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