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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Membership and operation of professional associations of banking and payment services intermediaries

Article L519-11

I.-For the purposes of their registration in the register referred to in I of Article L. 546-1, the banking and payment services intermediaries referred to in Article L. 519-1 and their agents shall j…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Statutory Auditors.

Article L820-3

…or entities that control it or that are controlled by it, within the meaning of I and II of Article L. 233-3. Information on the total amount of fees received is included in the documents made availab…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Statutory audit.

Article L823-20

The specialised committee referred to in Article L. 823-19 :1° Credit institutions and finance companies whose securities are not admitted to trading on a regulated market and which have issued, conti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 10: Provisions relating to the resolution procedure

Article L613-57

…e I of Book II or of other ownership securities or creditor of a person referred to in I of Article L. 613-34, and the fonds de garantie des dépôts et de résolution under Article L. 613-55-5, does not…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Community of communes

Article L5842-22

I. - Article L. 5214-16, with the exception of VI and VII, and Articles L. 5214-16-1 to L. 5214-22 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - For the applic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Deposit guarantee mechanism and resolution funding mechanism

Article L312-5

…r in a position to return, immediately or in the near future, the funds referred to in I of Article L. 312-4-1. The intervention of the Fonds de Garantie des Dépôts et de Résolution (Deposit Guarantee…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L621-5-4

I.- The duties and contributions mentioned in article L. 621-5-3 are liquidated, authorised and recovered according to the procedures laid down for the revenues of the State's public administrative es…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Supervision of groups on a consolidated basis

Article L613-20-4

…application for authorisation to use an internal risk assessment approach as referred to in Article L. 511-41 on behalf of several credit institutions or investment firms belonging to the same group a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article L450-3-3

I.-As an exception to the last two paragraphs of Article L. 450-3, for the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences and breaches provided for in Title II of this Book, access to data st…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Bodies and operations

Article L5211-11-2

I. - After each general renewal of the municipal councils or an operation provided for in articles L. 5211-5-1 A or L. 5211-41-3, the president of the public establishment for intercommunal cooperatio…

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