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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-11

…critical or significant importance; 3° In OTC contracts economically equivalent to these instruments. Commodity derivatives are considered to be of critical or significant importance when the sum of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-12

…tify the European Securities and Markets Authority of any more restrictive position limits it imposes. The notification shall contain the reasons for the imposition of the more restrictive position li…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Position limits

Article L420-14

…of a trading venue on which commodity derivatives are traded shall apply position management controls. These controls shall include, as a minimum, the power for the trading platform to: 1° to monitor…

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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 1: General provisions

Article L512-1

…ly to those of these establishments which have not issued securities giving a right to the net assets.Mutual and cooperative banks may offer financial securities to the public.They may also make a pub…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L515-1

In addition to the operations referred to in II of Article L. 511-1, finance companies may carry out any of the following operations:-provide payment services, subject to having obtained the authorisa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article L513-1

The specialised credit institutions referred to in article L. 511-9 may only carry out banking transactions resulting from their own legislative and regulatory provisions or from the relevant authoris…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L518-1

…artements d'outre-mer, the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer and the Caisse des dépôts et consignations. These institutions and departments may carry out the banking transactions provided for by the law…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General information

Article L525-1

Electronic money issuers are electronic money institutions and credit institutions.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L532-16

In this section and for the application of the provisions relating to freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services :1. The expression "competent authorities" means the authorities of a Mem…

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