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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-13

Where agricultural commodity derivatives which are based on the same underlying and which have the same characteristics are traded in significant volumes on trading platforms or where critical or sign…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Admission to trading

Article L421-15

Decisions to admit a financial instrument or an asset mentioned in II of Article L. 421-1 are made public by the market undertaking.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Clearing houses

Article L440-2

Only the following may join clearing houses 1. Credit institutions and investment firms having their registered office in France as well as branches established on French territory of credit instituti…

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

Article L452-3

…ing the rights of a civil party under the Code of Criminal Procedure. However, service of documents and notifications concerning the investor shall be addressed to the association.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Acquisitions of participating interests

Article L465-4

…es applicable to breaches of the obligation to disclose significant shareholdings are set out in 1° and 2° of I and III of article L. 247-1 and in article L. 247-2 of the French Commercial Code, repro…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Operating conditions

Article L425-6

The operator of the organised trading system may use an investment services provider other than a portfolio management company to act as a market maker within the meaning of 2° of Article L. 531-2 on…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Holding, trading and transporting gold

Article L426-1

Gold may be held, transported and traded freely in France.

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

Article L465-3-1

…behaves in such a way as to give, or be likely to give, misleading indications as to the supply, demand or price of a financial instrument or who fixes, or is likely to fix, the price of a financial i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Book V: Service providers

Article L500-1

…n Articles L. 213-8, L. 511-1, L. 517-1, L. 517-4, L. 522-1, L. 526-1, L. 531-1, L. 542-1, L. 543-1 and L. 549-2, or have the power to sign on behalf of this organisation; 2° Exercise one of the profe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Clearing houses

Article L440-7

Deposits made by clients with investment services providers other than portfolio management companies, members of a clearing house or made by such members with a clearing house to cover or guarantee p…

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