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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV - GEOLOCALISATION

Article R53-40

The request from the investigating judge provided for in the first paragraph of Article 230-40 shall specify the reasons why he considers that the conditions provided for by the provisions of that sam…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV - GEOLOCALISATION

Article R53-40-3

If the liberty and custody judge does not grant the investigating judge's request, this request, the liberty and custody judge's decision, the public prosecutor's opinion and, where applicable, the in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV - GEOLOCALISATION

Article R53-40-2

The separate file authorised by the liberty and custody judge includes the documents he lists, the investigating judge's request, the public prosecutor's opinion and, where applicable, the investigato…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV - GEOLOCALISATION

Article R53-40-4

Where information relating to a geolocation operation has been placed in a separate file pursuant to Article 230-40, and except where it has been placed in the procedural file pursuant to Article 230-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations.

Article D452-7

Associations shall report annually on their activities in accordance with the procedures laid down by order in the forms provided for in article D. 452-5. Associations shall draw up annual accounts. T…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations.

Article D452-5

Applications for approval and renewal are sent to the departmental directorate for competition, consumer affairs and fraud control in whose area of jurisdiction the association has its registered offi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations.

Article D452-8

…the association no longer meets one of the conditions for approval. The association must first be given formal notice to submit its observations. The decision to withdraw authorisation is published i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: European regulated markets.

Article D422-1

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall inform the European Commission and the European Securities and Markets Authority without undue delay of any measure taken pursuant to the second paragraph of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations.

Article D452-1

…he six months preceding the date of the application, the association must also have at least 200 individually paid-up members and have been effectively and publicly active in defending the interests o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Recognised foreign markets.

Article D423-2

The list of recognised markets is drawn up by the Minister for the Economy, after consulting the Autorité des marchés financiers.

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