A company from a third country within the meaning of 1° of Article L. 532-47 of this Code is not required to establish a branch in France if, without providing any other investment service mentioned in Article L. 321-1 in France, it enters into transactions on its own account in financial instruments or in units mentioned inArticle L. 229-7 of the Environment Code in one of the following situations:
1° The transactions are entered into with an entity acting on its own account which is a credit institution authorised under the conditions provided for in article L. 511-10, an investment firm authorised under the conditions provided for in article L. 532-1, or an institution referred to in article L. 518-1 or in 1° of article L. 531-2, outside a regulated market, a multilateral trading facility or an organised trading facility;
2° The transactions are concluded on a regulated market, a multilateral trading facility or an organised trading facility referred to in Articles L. 421-1, L. 424-1 and L. 425-1.