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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Central body for savings banks and banques populaires

Article L512-108

In the event that an affiliated institution or company takes decisions that do not comply with directly applicable laws, regulations or European provisions relating to banking and financial activities…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Payment service providers

Article L521-1

I. - Payment service providers are payment institutions, electronic money institutions, credit institutions and account information service providers.II. - When they provide payment services, the foll…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-15

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, where it is the authority responsible for supervision on a consolidated basis, continuously monitors compliance with the conditions set out in Art…

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

Article L541-3

All financial investment advisers must be able to provide evidence at all times of the existence of an insurance policy covering them against the financial consequences of their professional civil lia…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the freezing of assets and the prohibition on making assets available to third parties

Article L562-14

I. - When a credit institution is designated in application of article L. 312-1 to open an account for a person subject to a measure freezing funds and economic resources, it shall seek prior authoris…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Mandate.

Article L2143-11

The trade union delegate's term of office ends no later than the first round of elections to the staff representative institution that renews the institution whose election recognised the representati…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings.

Article L2262-14

Any action for nullity of all or part of a collective agreement or arrangement must, on pain of inadmissibility, be brought within two months of : 1° of the notification of the company agreement provi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Membership.

Article L2261-3

Any representative trade union organisation of employees and any trade union organisation or association of employers or individual employers may join an agreement. However, if the activity in which t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 5: Takeover bid

Article L2312-50

If the takeover bid is made by a company that does not have a social and economic committee, the employer informs the employees directly. Similarly, if there is no social and economic committee in the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Economic warning rights

Article L2312-64

The social and economic committee or, where applicable, the economic committee may be assisted, once per financial year, by the chartered accountant provided for in article L. 2315-92, summon the stat…

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