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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Inspections and investigations

Article L621-12

For the purposes of investigating offences defined in Articles L. 465-1 to L. 465-3-3 and acts that may be classified as property offences and sanctioned by the Enforcement Committee of the Autorité d…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Injunctions, emergency measures and other measures

Article L621-13

…des Marchés Financiers, as well as any assets held by an AIF. It shall rule by order upon request, and any interested party shall be required to refer the matter to it. It may, under the same conditi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-18-8

…y an AIF or its management company. It may, where it considers it necessary to ensure the stability and integrity of the financial system, after notifying the European Securities and Markets Authority…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-20-4

The minutes or reports of an investigation or any other document from criminal proceedings that is directly related to facts that may be submitted to the AMF Enforcement Committee for review may be di…

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

Article L621-24

…d or administer financial instruments of which they have become aware in the course of their duties and which may constitute a breach of the provisions of the AMF General Regulation relating to the ru…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Investment recommendations produced or disseminated as part of a journalistic activity

Article L621-33

…e a breach by a member of the rules of the code of conduct referred to in the same article.Notwithstanding Articles 42 et seq. of Act 86-1067 of 30 September 1986 on freedom of communication, when the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Investment recommendations produced or disseminated as part of a journalistic activity

Article L621-34

…their legal representative, depending on the seriousness of the breach: 1° A warning ; 2° a reprimand 3° Compulsory insertion of a notice or press release in the publication concerned; 4° Broadcast…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Inspections and investigations

Article L621-10

The investigators and auditors may, for the purposes of the investigation or audit, ask to be provided with any documents, regardless of the medium used.Investigators and auditors may summon and inter…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-18-2

…n shall be communicated by the persons referred to in a to c to the Autorité des marchés financiers and made public by the latter, under the conditions mentioned in Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-20

…upon the chairman of the Autorité des marchés financiers or his representative to file submissions and to develop them orally at the hearing, without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 466-1.

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