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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Collective investments

Article L214-1

…ive investment in transferable securities authorised in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of laws, regulations and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General rules governing UCITS

Article L214-7-1

…CAV may delegate the management of its portfolio as referred to in article L. 214-7 to a management company. The registered office and head office of the management company are located in France. Howe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Intermediary parent companies

Article L517-4-2

An intermediate parent undertaking in the European Union is a credit institution or a financial holding company or a mixed financial holding company which has applied for approval in accordance with t…

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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 L562-3

…es:1° Belonging to, owned, held or controlled by natural or legal persons, or any other entity that commits, attempts to commit, facilitates or finances actions sanctioned or prohibited by resolutions…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4221-1

…2 to L. 4221-5 ; 2° Be a French national, an Andorran citizen, a national of a Member State of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, or a national of a country…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Forward financial instruments of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-53

…institutions and investment firms having their registered office in one of the Member States of the European Community or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area ; b) The bodies referre…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions relating to the control of groups

Article R356-5-2

Where a request by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution to a competent authority of another Member State to carry out on-site inspections of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking or…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Entry on the list of industrial property attorneys

Article R422-2

…industrial property firm; 2° Be of French nationality or a national of another Member State of the European Community or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area; 3° Have…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Filing of applications for plant variety certificates.

Article R623-3

…ons who do not have their domicile, registered office or place of business in a Member State of the European Union and who, pursuant to Article L. 623-6, apply for plant variety certificates, must, wi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-20-7

The Autorité des marchés financiers is the competent authority, within the meaning of Article 67(1) of Directive 2014/65/ EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in…

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