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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 10: Applicable charges

Article D133-5

…r 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, regardl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 10: Applicable charges

Article D133-6

…ment incidents other than the rejection of a cheque, the charges levied by the payer's payment service provider in respect of an incident may not exceed the amount of the rejected payment order, subje…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Election and remuneration of the employee representative.

Article R142-7

…to vote, regardless of age 1° Permanent employees who, on the day of the ballot, are either in service with the Banque de France, on leave, on secondment, on availability for national service, or mobi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Payment Security Observatory

Article R142-24

…s part of its remit, the Observatory may instruct some of its members to study particular questions and, to this end, set up working or study groups from among its members, the terms of reference and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Approval of the accounts.

Article R144-4

…year.A 5% deduction from the net profit for the year is then allocated to a specific reserve, which ceases to be funded when it reaches an amount equal to twice the capital of the Banque de France. Fi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Prior application for examination of an activity

Article R151-4

…as to whether all or part of the activity of this entity falls within the scope of I of Article L. 151-3, the Minister for the Economy shall respond within two months. Under the same conditions, an i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Statistical declarations for the compilation of France's balance of payments and international investment position.

Article R152-1

I.- Credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions, investment companies, portfolio management companies, undertakings for collective investment and the in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Statistical declarations for the compilation of France's balance of payments and international investment position.

Article R152-3

The Banque de France must be provided with additional information for statistical purposes, in accordance with the conditions and deadlines set by order of the Minister for the Economy, when the amoun…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-2

Refusing to accept coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France according to their value is punishable in accordance with article R. 642-3 of the French Penal Code.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-5

…525-8 or a bureau de change, fails to withdraw from circulation, prior to issuing euro banknotes received from the public, banknotes which he has sufficient reason to believe to be counterfeit; An em…

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