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Article L515-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Articles of Association determine the registered office and mode of administration of the company, the conditions necessary for the amendment of these Articles of Association and the dissolution of the company, the composition of the capital and the proportion in which each member contributes to its constitution. They regulate the extent and conditions of each member’s liability for the company’s commitments. The Articles of Association reserve the right of…

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Article L515-7 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Articles of Association provide that the Board of Directors shall determine for each member the maximum amount of guarantees that may be granted and shall limit the period for which such guarantees are given. They expressly stipulate that the Board of Directors may refuse to grant the guarantee requested, or may grant it only subject to the guarantees it deems appropriate.

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Article L515-8 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The capital, the reserve funds and the guarantee fund are allocated to guarantee the sureties given by the company in such a way as to serve as a provision for bills, notes and commitments, in the absence of settlement. Before beginning to give any guarantees, the directors are required to state, in a declaration filed in duplicate at the clerk’s office of the judicial court of the company’s registered office,…

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Article L515-9 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Articles of Association determine the levies and commissions charged to the company on its transactions. A reserve fund known as the “legal reserve”, equal to half the share capital, is set up in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 232-10 of the French Commercial Code. Subject to the possibility of paying interest on the capital actually paid in, as determined by the Articles of…

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Article L515-10 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The conditions of publication prescribed for ordinary commercial companies are replaced, in respect of mutual guarantee companies, by the following provisions: 1. Prior to any transaction, three copies of the articles of association, together with a complete list of the directors or managers and the members, indicating their name, profession, domicile and the amount of each subscription, shall be filed with the clerk of the court in whose jurisdiction the…

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Article L515-13 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.-The Agence française de développement carries out a permanent mission of public interest within the meaning of Article L. 511-104. This mission consists of carrying out financial operations of all kinds with a view to : 1° Contribute to the implementation of the State’s development aid policy abroad, in particular by financing : a) As a priority, access to essential services in the least developed countries and in particular in…

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Article L516-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Credit and investment institutions are credit institutions whose purpose is to provide, within the framework of an authorisation provided for in I of article L. 532-1, investment services mentioned in article L. 321-1, including at least one of those mentioned in 3, 6-1 and 6-2 of that same article.

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Article L516-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Credit and investment institutions are not authorised to receive repayable funds from the public as referred to in article L. 312-2 or to carry out credit transactions, except to provide the service referred to in point 2 of article L. 321-2 under conditions relating to the capital of the institutions, the beneficiaries, the purpose of the loans and their contractualisation, specified by order of the Minister for the Economy.

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