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Article L632-5 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or the Autorité des marchés financiers is asked to cooperate in an investigation, on-site inspection or supervisory activity in accordance with Article L. 632-2, or in an exchange of information in accordance with Article L. 632-1, it may refuse to comply with such a request only where the request is likely to undermine French sovereignty, security or public policy or where…

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Article L632-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.-Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or the Autorité des marchés financiers has reasonable grounds to suspect that acts infringing the provisions applicable to investment services providers, management companies managing UCITS authorised in accordance with Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009, AIF management companies within the meaning of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of…

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Article L632-6-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Notwithstanding the provisions of Law 68-678 of 26 July 1968 on the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or legal persons, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the Autorité des marchés financiers shall cooperate with the European Securities and Markets Authority, established by Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010…

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Article L632-6-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Autorité des marchés financiers shall provide the competent authorities of other Member States with the information necessary to monitor and respond to the potential consequences of the activities of management companies providing portfolio management services on behalf of third parties or engaged in the activity of collective investment management on the stability of systemically important financial institutions and on the orderly functioning of the markets on which the managers…

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Article L632-6-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Notwithstanding the provisions of Law no. 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or legal persons, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, its supervisory board and its resolution board may exchange information covered by professional secrecy with the European Central Bank and the Single Resolution Board, for the purposes of carrying out the…

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Article L632-7 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. Notwithstanding the provisions of Act 68-678 of 26 July 1968 on the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or legal persons, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the Autorité des marchés financiers may enter into cooperation agreements with counterpart authorities in a State that is not a member of the European Union or a party to the Agreement…

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Article L632-8 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is the single authority serving as a contact point for receiving requests for exchanges of information or cooperation from the authorities of other Member States of the European Union or other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as well as from the European Securities and Markets Authority when these requests relate to the implementation of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European…

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Article L632-9 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Where the activities of a trading platform referred to in Article L. 420-1 that has installed access arrangements in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area have acquired substantial importance for the operation of financial instrument markets and investor protection, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall set up proportionate cooperation arrangements with the competent authority of that…

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Article L632-10 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The AMF may request information directly from investment services providers that are members of a regulated market and are not established in France. In such cases, it shall inform the competent authority of the Member State of the European Union or of the other State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area to which they belong.

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Article L632-11 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

When the Autorité des marchés financiers receives transaction reports in accordance with Article L. 533-9, it shall transmit this information to the competent authority of the most relevant market in terms of liquidity for the financial instrument in question, when this market is located in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. When the AMF receives transaction…

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