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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-3-1

I. - A. - The penalties provided for in A of I of Article L. 465-1 shall apply to any person who carries out a transaction, places an order or behaves in such a way as to give, or be likely to give, m…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-3

I.-The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may require a Class 2 or Class 3 investment firm to take, at an early stage, any measures necessary to address any of the following issues: 1° T…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6a: Equity savings plan for financing small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies

Article L221-32-2

…are used for one or more of the following purposes:a) Shares, excluding those mentioned in article L. 228-11 of the French Commercial Code, or company investment certificates and cooperative investme…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L310-2-3

…king duly established in a third country has entered into a contract pursuant to 2° of I of Article L. 310-2 and is no longer in one of the situations provided for in I of the same article, this direc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Inter-company occupational health and prevention services.

Article L4622-9-3

…prevention service with the interoperability and security reference frameworks mentioned in Article L. 4624-8-2 of this code. The reference systems and the principles guiding the preparation of the ce…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Supervision on a consolidated basis by a competent authority of another Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L613-21-3

…udentiel et de résolution with a view to reaching a joint decision on 1°, 2° or 3° of II of Article L. 613-20-4 or on the measures to be taken in the event of any question or finding of significant im…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Organisation and operation

Article L5721-6-3

…ich it is a member, under the conditions provided for in the second to fourth paragraphs of article L. 5212-29. The opinion of the commission départementale de la coopération intercommunale is deemed…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6b: SME Innovation Account

Article L221-32-5

I. - The holder of an SME innovation account defined in article L. 221-32-4 may deposit in this account units or shares in a company subject to corporation tax that it has acquired or subscribed to ou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L613-34-4

…thorities in France or in the other Member States of the European Union, mentioned in II of Article L. 613-31-2 ; 8° The Haut Conseil de Stabilité Financière (High Council for Financial Stability) or…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Offences committed by the employer or his delegate.

Article L4741-3-1

…re by the employer to comply with the measures taken by the inspection officer pursuant to articles L. 4731-1 or L. 4731-2 is punishable by one year's imprisonment and a fine of 3,750 euros.

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