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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Advisory Committee on the Financial Sector and Advisory Committee on Financial Legislation and Regulation

Article L614-1

…e Comité Consultatif du Secteur Financier is responsible for studying issues relating to relations between credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Missions

Article L621-1

…inancial instruments, the units referred to inArticle L. 229-7 of the Environmental Code and the assets referred to in II of Article L. 421-1 of this Code that are offered to the public or admitted to…

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

Article L621-12

…n whose jurisdiction the premises to be visited are located may, at the reasoned request of the Secretary General of the Autorité des marchés financiers, authorise by order the investigators of the au…

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

Article L621-13

On a reasoned request from the Chairman or Secretary General of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the president of the court may order the sequestration, wherever held, of funds, securities or righ…

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

Article L621-10

…n and interview any person likely to provide them with information. They may access business premises. They may obtain explanations on the spot under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Et…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article L621-16

…d facts, the criminal court may order that the financial penalty be deducted from the fine it imposes.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Other powers

Article L621-19

…n is appointed by the AMF Chairman on the advice of the AMF Board for a renewable term of three years. The Ombudsman is empowered to receive complaints from any interested party that fall within the r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Penalties

Article L621-15

…é des marchés financiers or the request made by the Chairman of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.Subject to Article L. 465-3-6, if it decides to initiate sanction proceedings, it n…

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

Article L621-11

…ing his or her explanations on the spot and the conditions under which this right is exercised are determined by decree of the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Cooperation and exchanges of information between authorities

Article L631-1

…départements d'outre-mer, the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the Autorité des marchés financiers shall cooperate with each other. They shall…

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