The external valuation expert, any member of a management body or any person who, in any capacity whatsoever, participates in the direction or management of an external valuation expert or who is employed by the latter is bound by professional secrecy under the conditions and subject to the penalties set out in articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Penal Code.
As part of their mission, external valuation experts are released from the obligation of professional secrecy towards the auditor of the undertaking for collective investment in real estate, the Autorité des marchés financiers, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the tax authorities.