Subsection 7: Other powers

The AMF shall ensure that issuers referred to in Article L. 451-1-2 or issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a multilateral trading facility subject to the provisions of II of Article L. 433-3 regularly publish the information required by law or regulation. It verifies the information published by these issuers. To this end, it may require issuers, the persons that control them or are controlled by them and…

At the request of one or more investment services providers or a professional association of investment services providers, the Autorité des marchés financiers may, after obtaining the opinion of the Banque de France, certify standard contracts for transactions in financial instruments or units referred to inArticle L. 229-7 of the Environmental Code or the assets referred to in II of Article L. 421-1.

I. – The transactions referred to in Article 19 of the same Regulation shall be communicated by the persons referred to in a to c to the Autorité des marchés financiers and made public by the latter, under the conditions mentioned in Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (Market Abuse Regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the…

Legal entities whose registered office is in France and whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market shall make public the information required by the report referred to in the last paragraph of Articles L. 225-37 and L. 225-68 of the Commercial Code and, where applicable, the information referred to in 2° and the last paragraph of Article L. 22-10-35 under conditions set by the General Regulations of…

In the report referred to in the second sentence of the first paragraph of Article L. 621-18-3, the AMF shall report on the application of Articles L. 544-3 to L. 544-6 and may approve any recommendation it deems useful.

I. – The Autorité des marchés financiers shall issue the authorisation provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 18 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1031/2010 of 12 November 2010 on the timing, management and other aspects of the auctioning of greenhouse gas emission allowances. The General Regulation specifies the conditions for issuing and withdrawing this authorisation, where appropriate after consulting the Energy Regulation Commission. II. – The Autorité des marchés…

The Autorité des marchés financiers is responsible for applying the provisions of Articles 4, 5, 9 and 10 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories with regard to compliance with clearing, notification and reporting obligations by counterparties to a financial contract within the meaning of that Regulation. The notification of intra-group transactions…

The Autorité des marchés financiers may be delegated by the European Securities and Markets Authority under the conditions laid down in Article 74 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories to supervise trade repositories.

The AMF shall assess the risks that may arise from the use of leverage by an AIF or its management company. It may, where it considers it necessary to ensure the stability and integrity of the financial system, after notifying the European Securities and Markets Authority, the European Systemic Risk Board and the competent authorities of the AIF concerned, impose limits on the level of leverage which it has authorised…

I. – The AMF Ombudsman 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 remit of the Autorité des marchés financiers and to take appropriate action. It carries out its mediation role with regard to consumers under the conditions laid down in Title I…