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Book VI: Banking and financial institutions

Article R611-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Minister responsible for the economy may extend to the Caisse des dépôts et consignations and the accounting officers of the Directorate General of Public Finances the provisions relating to the conditions of banking transactions carried out by credit institutions adopted pursuant to this chapter. However, the provisions mentioned in the previous paragraph may not be made applicable either to consignments or to the management of funds whose management is…

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Article R611-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Minister responsible for the economy may extend to the Caisse des dépôts et consignations and the accounting officers of the Directorate General of Public Finances the provisions relating to the organisation of services common to credit institutions adopted pursuant to this chapter.

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Article R611-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Minister responsible for the economy may extend the accounting provisions adopted pursuant to this chapter to the accounting officers of the Directorate General of Public Finances. However, this extension may not go beyond the establishment of correlation tables enabling them to provide accounting information on the banking transactions they carry out that is identical to that of credit institutions. The Minister responsible for the economy may extend to Caisse…

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Article D612-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The vice-chairman of the AMF receives remuneration equivalent to that of a deputy governor of the Banque de France, as provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 142-19, as well as an expense allowance equivalent to that paid to a deputy governor of the Banque de France under the second paragraph of the same article. The members of the Supervisory Board and the Enforcement Committee, with the exception…

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Article R612-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – On a proposal from its Chairman and by a two-thirds majority of its members, the plenary session of the AMF Board of Supervision may set up one or more specialised commissions referred to in Article L. 612-8 . The decision to set up a specialised committee shall specify 1° The areas in which the specialised committee is empowered to take individual decisions; 2° Its composition. In addition to…

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Article R612-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Director General of the Treasury or, where applicable, the Director of Social Security or their representatives have a period of three working days following the meeting of the supervisory board to request a second deliberation by the supervisory board. The Director General of the Treasury or, where applicable, the Director of Social Security or their representatives may request a second deliberation by a specialised committee either before this committee…

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Article R612-4 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Each section of the AMF’s Supervisory Board or Resolution Board meets when convened by its Chairman. Where, pursuant to Article L. 612-10, a member does not take part in a meeting of the Supervisory Board or the Resolution Board, that member shall count towards the quorum. Minutes are kept of the meetings of the Authority. The names of the members present and of those members who did not take part…

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Article R612-5 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

When a panel of the supervisory board, or where applicable a specialised commission, decides by written consultation, in application of the third paragraph of Article L. 612-13, the Chairman shall, within a time limit that he shall set, obtain the votes of the members and the observations of the Director General of the Treasury and, where applicable, the Director of Social Security or their representatives. This period may not be…

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Article D612-5-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

When the resolution board decides by written consultation in application of the first paragraph of IV of Article L. 612-8-1, the chairman shall obtain the votes of the members within a time limit that he shall set. This period may not be less than forty-eight hours from the time the documents are sent. If a member so requests in writing within this period, the vote shall be taken at the…

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Article R612-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

In order to guarantee identification and effective participation in the meeting of a panel of the Supervisory Board ruling by means of teleconferencing pursuant to the fourth paragraph of Article L. 612-13, these means must at least allow the voice of the participants to be transmitted and must meet the technical characteristics allowing continuous and simultaneous retransmission of the deliberations.

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