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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Disclosure requirements for equity investments

Article L451-2-1

…ded when the issuer's registered office is outside the European Economic Area and falls within the cases referred to in II of Article L. 451-1-2 of this Code. In such cases, Articles L. 233-7, II, IV,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 2: Mergers involving joint stock companies or limited liability companies

Article L236-12

…ial court and until the completion of the transaction, the acquiring company permanently holds at least 90% of the shares or other securities conferring voting rights in the acquired companies, or the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Mutual recognition procedure.

Article R5141-47-3

…in France of a marketing authorisation issued by another Member State of the European Union, known as the reference State, the holder of this authorisation must submit a marketing authorisation appli…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-108

The Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, must send or make available to shareholders the documents necessary to enable them to make informed judgements on the management and…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 59 undecies

…ing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, signed in Washington on 3 March 1973, and the European Union regulations adopted for its application, and the o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Special provisions for securitisation funds

Article L214-185

…ects in the performance of his duties to the management company's directors and to the Autorité des marchés financiers. The fund's unitholders exercise the rights conferred on shareholders by articles…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Approval of AIFM established in a third country

Article L532-41

Any dispute arising between the Autorité des marchés financiers and the AIFM established in a third country of which France is the reference Member State shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Fr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for taking up the activity of financial investment adviser

Article L541-2

Financial investment advisers who are natural persons, as well as natural persons with the power to manage or administer legal persons authorised as financial investment advisers, must meet the age an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-16

…ining the opinion of the Haut Conseil du Commissariat aux Comptes. The opinions of the Autorité des marchés financiers and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution are also required for th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3° : Property damaged or unavailable outside France

Article 766

The basis of assessment for transfer duties on death relating to securities, sums, values or assets of any kind which have been made unavailable outside France as a result of measures taken by a forei…

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