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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L511-23

…ets the conditions required for this purpose by those authorities may, within the territory of mainland France, the overseas departments, the Department of Mayotte and Saint-Martin, establish branches…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Central bodies

Article L511-30

For the application of the provisions of this code relating to credit institutions and finance companies, the following are considered as central bodies:Crédit agricole S.A., the central body of savin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Company accounts and accounting documents

Article L511-35

…cle L. 232-1 of the French Commercial Code are applicable to credit institutions, finance companies and investment firms under conditions set by the French Accounting Standards Authority (Autorité des…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article L511-8-2

Any credit institution operating on the markets for financial futures instruments whose underlying asset is, in whole or in part, an agricultural commodity is prohibited from building up physical stoc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-15-1

…out in Part Three, Part Four or Part Six of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, with the exception of the requirements set out in its Articles 9…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-16

In the cases provided for in Articles L. 511-15 and L. 511-15-1, the funds repayable from the public referred to in Article L. 312-2 and the other repayable funds are repaid by the credit institution…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services within the territory of States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L511-25

In order to supervise an institution benefiting from the regime provided for in Article L. 511-24 and notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1a of Law no. 68-678 of 26 July 1968, the competent auth…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Company accounts and accounting documents

Article L511-37

All credit institutions, finance companies, investment firms and members of clearing houses referred to in Article L. 440-2 .3 must publish their annual financial statements in accordance with the con…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Statutory auditors

Article L511-39

…s of articles L. 225-38 to L. 225-43 of the French Commercial Code apply to all credit institutions and finance companies.For the application of article L. 225-40 of the same code, when these credit i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-9

…tions are authorised as banks, mutual or cooperative banks, specialised credit institutions, credit and investment institutions or municipal credit funds.Banks may carry out all banking transactions.M…

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