Financial securities admitted to the operations of a central depository may be registered in a securities account held by an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3, unless the issuer decides otherwise.
Financial securities that are not admitted to the operations of a central depository must be recorded, in the name of the owner of the securities, in a securities account held by the issuer or, if the issuer so decides, in a shared electronic recording system referred to in Article L. 211-3. However, except where prohibited by law or by the issuer, units or shares in undertakings for collective investment may be registered in a securities account held by an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3.
Financial securities admitted to trading on a “DLT market infrastructure” within the meaning of Article 2(5) of Regulation (EU) 2022/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on a pilot scheme for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology, and amending Regulations (EU) No 600/2014 and (EU) No 909/2014 and Directive 2014/65/EU are registered in a shared electronic record-keeping device under the conditions set out in the second paragraph of this Article or in a shared electronic record-keeping device under the conditions set out in the aforementioned Regulation (EU) 2022/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022.