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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Registration of financial securities

Article R211-5

Financial securities in mandatory registered form may only be traded on a trading platform once they have been placed in an administration account.Financial securities that are not in registered form…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R131-50

The drawee must be able to prove, for a period of two years, the date on which it delivered or sent the cheque forms to the account holder.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Examination of an application for authorisation

Article R151-5

The application for authorisation of a foreign investment is filed by the investor. However, where the proposed investment involves one or more investors belonging to a chain of control, the applicati…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Accounting rules.

Article R144-5

Articles L. 123-12 to L. 123-14, the first paragraph of article L. 123-15 and articles L. 123-17 to L. 123-22 of the French Commercial Code as well as article R. 123-181, the second paragraph of artic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation of the General Council.

Article R142-5

The ministers mentioned in the third paragraph of article L. 142-2 are the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for the Budget.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R131-51

…ent that is not based on one of the grounds provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 131-35 or written confirmation of such a stop payment, it sends the account holder a letter stating the r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 10: Applicable charges

Article D133-5

For the purposes of II of Article L. 133-26, a payment incident is any rejection of a payment order received by the payer's payment service provider due to a lack of funds or insufficient funds, regar…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employee profit-sharing and incentive schemes.

Article R212-5

The rules relating to employee profit-sharing are set out in Chapter I of Title IV of Book IV of the Labour Code and in Decree no. 87-947 of 26 November 1987 setting the conditions for application of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operating rules

Article D214-5

The former SICAV, which retains the assets whose disposal would not be in the interests of the shareholders pursuant to Article L. 214-7-4, and the new SICAV have the same portfolio management company…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for the issue of negotiable debt securities.

Article D213-5

All negotiable debt securities issued under the same programme may be covered by a first demand guarantee under the conditions laid down by order of the Minister for the Economy. Where negotiable debt…

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