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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Rules applicable to financial contracts, temporary acquisitions and sales of financial instruments and guarantees

Article R214-15-2

I. - When an eligible financial security or money market instrument referred to in article L. 214-20 includes a financial contract which simultaneously meets the three conditions mentioned below, the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article L111-3

The provisions of articles L. 111-1 and L. 111-2 shall apply without prejudice to special consumer information provisions specific to certain activities. The provisions of Article L. 111-2 do not appl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Investment ratios

Article R214-28

I. - A UCITS with a formula is a UCITS which meets the following two conditions:1° It is managed passively and its management objective is to reach, at the end of a given period, an amount determined…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Shareholding and control.

Article D214-32-7-2

The notification referred to in Article D. 214-32-7-1 shall contain the following information:1° The consequences of the transaction on voting rights ;2° The terms of the acquisition of control, in pa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Collective investments

Article L744-10

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in II, in the wording i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article D214-80

The deduction of fees and commissions borne by subscribers of units in mutual funds mentioned in 1 of VI, VI bis and VI ter of article 199 terdecies-0 A of the French General Tax Code and in 1 of III…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-74

On the decision of its chairman, who is responsible for its implementation, the multidisciplinary commission on security measures may carry out or have carried out throughout France any examinations,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Responsibility of the competent authorities

Article L532-45

…Prohibit the marketing, in the European Union, of units or shares of AIFs managed by managers established in third countries or of third-country AIFs managed by managers established in the European U…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Contracts between a performer and a phonogram producer

Article L212-11

…dition that each of the rights transferred is the subject of a separate mention in the contract concluded with the phonogram producer and that the field of exploitation of these rights is delimited as…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Shareholding and control.

Article D214-32-7-15

For the purposes of Article D. 214-32-7-14:1° The term "distribution" includes in particular the payment of dividends and interest on shares;2° The provisions relating to capital reductions do not app…

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