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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Withdrawal of approval and deregistration

Article L532-12

…list of approved portfolio management companies as a sanction by the Autorité des marchés financiers.Deregistration entails the liquidation of the legal entity if it has its registered office in Fran…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Prudential provisions

Article L526-31

…n which intends to outsource operational functions shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.Essential operational functions may not be outsourced in such a way as to seriously…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-18-1

…rsons mentioned in the previous paragraph are treated in the same way as investment service providers. Where an investment service provider with its registered office in another Member State of the Eu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-20

The persons referred to in Article L. 532-18-1 shall send the Autorité des marchés financiers, at its request and for statistical purposes, periodic reports on the activities of their branch. The Auto…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: European UCITS management companies

Article L532-20-1

…r Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area which set up branches to manage one or more UCITS governed by French law and approved in accordance with Di…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: European FIA management companies

Article L532-21-3

…3° of the first paragraph of Article L. 533-10 when these management companies manage an AIF or market its units or shares on an unrestricted basis. III - The Autorité des marchés financiers may requi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Approval of AIFM established in a third country

Article L532-32

…egal representative is the AIFM's contact point in the European Union. All official correspondence between the competent authorities and the AIFM and between unitholders or shareholders established in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-47

In this section :1° "Third-country firm" means a firm which, if its head office or registered office were situated in a Member State of the European Union, would be either a credit institution providi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-50

I.-The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall not grant authorisation to the branch of the applicant third-country undertaking unless the third-country undertaking to which the branch…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Approval of AIFM established in a third country

Article L532-42

Where a competent authority of a third country fails to comply with a request for information exchange referred to in 2° of Article L. 532-29, the AMF may refer the matter to the European Securities a…

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