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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-5

Where the Autorité des marchés financiers is not the competent authority for monitoring compliance with the disclosure requirements laid down in Article L. 451-1-2 of this Code and Articles L. 233-7 t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions and activities

Article L511-4-1

…2005-32 of 18 January 2005 on social cohesion and benefiting in this respect from public guarantees.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-4

The obligations set out in Article L. 451-1-2 do not apply to the following issuers: 1° The States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and their local authorities; 2° The European Cen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Takeover bids and public exchange offers

Article L433-1-2

…fer shall lapse automatically. The General Regulation of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers shall set out the conditions and cases of application of this I. II. - Where a bid referred to in section 2…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-2

…rities or debt securities with a nominal value of less than 1,000 euros and which are not money market instruments, within the meaning of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Cou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-6

…n relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market and amending Directive 2001/34/EC.The public may have access to this information during the ten y…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial reporting requirements

Article L451-1-3

…ties referred to in I and II of that Article are admitted to trading only on a French regulated market, publish regulated information within the meaning of Directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parlia…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Disclosure requirements for equity investments

Article L451-2-1

The information referred to in I of Article L. 233-7 of the Commercial Code is also provided when the issuer's registered office is outside the European Economic Area and falls within the cases referr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-41-1

…is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall verify, on its own initiative or at the request of the parent undertaking or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-12-2

…stitution referred to in Article L. 611-1 must be authorised by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.

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