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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Definitions and scope of application

Article L411-4

For the purposes of the provisions of the Criminal Code and Order no. 45-2138 of 19 September 1945 establishing the Ordre des Experts Comptables and regulating the title and profession of Chartered Ac…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Definitions and scope of application

Article L411-2

Notwithstanding the provisions of the first sentence of the first paragraph of Article L. 411-1, the following public offers are authorised: 1° The offer of financial securities or shares exclusively…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Definitions and scope of application

Article L411-2-1

Special conditions may be attached to the following offers of financial securities or shares to the public: 1° A public offer of less than a certain amount. The total amount of the offer is calculated…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Definitions and scope of application

Article L411-1

Persons or entities that have not been authorised to do so by law are prohibited from making a public offer, within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 2017/1129 of 14 June 2017, of financial securities…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions

Article L420-1

I.-A trading venue is a regulated market within the meaning of Article L. 421-1, a multilateral trading facility within the meaning of Article L. 424-1 or an organised trading facility within the mean…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Holding, trading and transporting gold

Article L426-1

Gold may be held, transported and traded freely in France.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Organisational requirements

Article L420-3

…ndle high volumes of orders and messages and allow for an orderly trading process during periods of market stress. These trading systems are tested to confirm that these conditions are met in situatio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Organisational requirements

Article L420-4

…tracts with all investment service providers other than portfolio management companies that apply a market-making strategy, within the meaning of 3° of Article L. 533-10-3, on the trading venue and sh…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Organisational requirements

Article L420-8

…of 14 July 2016 supplementing Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in financial instruments by regulatory technical standards concerning the quotation step reg…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Organisational requirements

Article L420-7

The operator of a trading platform shall make available to the Autorité des marchés financiers, at its request, data relating to the order book or provide access to the order book so that it can monit…

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