FRANCE: AMF makes changes to General Regulation on France short selling in line with EU Short Selling Regulation

Thursday April 25 2013

The AMF has announced changes to its General Regulation in line with amendments approved by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, effective 18 April. The changes concern the regulation of share buybacks on Alternext, custody accounts and an update to Book II to make reference to the EU Short Selling Regulation. The previous provisions of Article 223-37, which set out the French short selling measures as applicable from February 2011, have been removed from the updated French language version of the General Regulation as no longer applicable. 

Click on the above link for the updated General Regulation (French).