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One year ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chose the XBRL standard to simplify and unify the exchange of financial information, and as such have joined the European central banks that have been using it since 2007 for regulatory reporting. In France, Infogreffe (which includes all of the Registries of the Commercial Courts) also selected the XBRL standard in 2008 for its portal for the filing of electronic financial statements.

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