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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-20-2

…uthority within the meaning of Article 32 of Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps.II.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4a: Administrative composition

Article L621-14-1

…cle L. 621-15, except in the case of breaches referred to in f of II of the same Article L. 621-15, and with the professional obligations mentioned in Article L. 621-17, the AMF Board may, at the same…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article L621-15-2

Where an institution mentioned in Article L. 370-1 of the Insurance Code and offering the operations mentioned in Articles L. 3334-1 to L. 3334-9 and L. 3334-11 to L. 3334-16 of the Labour Code has br…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-18-6

The Autorité des marchés financiers is responsible for applying the provisions of Articles 4, 5, 9 and 10 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-20-9

The Autorité des marchés financiers is the competent authority within the meaning of Article 29(4) and (5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 201…

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

Article L621-13-5

…by any means capable of establishing the date of receipt, to the following operators: 1° Operators and natural or legal persons offering online investment services that are not authorised pursuant to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-20-5

…authority within the meaning of Article 40 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and contrac…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The High Council for Financial Stability

Article L631-2-1

…ité financière supervises the financial system as a whole, with the aim of preserving its stability and its ability to make a sustainable contribution to economic growth. In this capacity, it defines…

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

Article L621-10-2

…of investigating market abuse as defined by Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (Market Abuse Regulation) and repealing Directiv…

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

Article L621-13-1

…ator for a person referred to in Article L. 543-1, to whom all powers of administration, management and representation of the legal entity shall be transferred. The provisional administrator shall dis…

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