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Article L421-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.-A regulated market in financial instruments is a multilateral system that brings together or facilitates the bringing together of multiple third-party buying and selling interests in financial instruments, in accordance with non-discretionary rules, in a way that leads to the conclusion of contracts in the financial instruments admitted to trading under the rules and systems of that market. It is recognised and operates in accordance with the provisions of this…

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Article L421-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

A regulated market is managed by a market undertaking. This undertaking takes the form of a commercial company. Where the market undertaking manages a regulated market, its registered office and effective management are established in mainland France or in the overseas departments or the Department of Mayotte or Saint-Martin. The market undertaking must at all times comply with the laws and regulations applicable to it. The market undertaking carries out…

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Article L421-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The AMF may appoint an agent for the market undertaking, to whom all powers of administration, management and representation of the legal entity shall be transferred. This appointment shall be made either at the request of the managers if they consider that they are no longer in a position to perform their duties normally, or on the initiative of the Autorité des marchés financiers if the management of a trading…

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Article L421-4 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Recognition as a regulated market for financial instruments is decided by order of the Minister for the Economy on a proposal from the Autorité des marchés financiers. The Autorité des marchés financiers consults the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution on the measures planned by the market undertaking to comply with the obligations set out in paragraphs 2 and 4 of I and II of Article L. 421-11. The…

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Article L421-5 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall propose to recognise the status of regulated market only if it is satisfied that the persons referred to in Article L. 421-7 are of sufficiently good repute, have the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to perform their duties and devote sufficient time to them, and that there are no objective and demonstrable reasons for considering that the corporate bodies constituted by these persons within…

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Article L421-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

On a proposal from the Autorité des marchés financiers, the Minister responsible for the economy may withdraw recognition from a regulated market in any of the following cases: 1° If the market undertaking does not make use of it within twelve months, if it expressly renounces it or if the market has ceased to operate for six months; 2° If the market undertaking has obtained the authorisation by making false…

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Article L421-7 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Within a market undertaking, the following persons shall be of sufficiently good repute and possess the knowledge, skills and experience necessary for the performance of their duties: 1° Members of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board and the Management Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the Deputy Chief Executive Officers, as well as any other person or member of a corporate body exercising equivalent functions; 2° Persons who effectively…

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Article L421-7-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.-The persons referred to in Article L. 421-7 must meet the following requirements: 1° They must devote sufficient time to performing their duties within the market undertaking. The number of mandates for the functions mentioned in II that may be exercised simultaneously by one of these persons in any legal entity shall take into account the particular situation and the nature, scope and complexity of the activities of the market…

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Article L421-7-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.- Market undertakings of significant importance due to their size and internal organisation, as well as the nature, scale and complexity of their activities, shall set up an appointments committee composed of the persons referred to in Article L. 421-7 who do not hold any of the offices referred to in 1° of II of Article L. 421-7-1 within the market undertaking concerned. The criteria according to which market undertakings…

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