Financial investment advisers :
1° Provide themselves with the resources and procedures necessary to carry out their activities and implement these resources and procedures efficiently ;
2° When providing the advice referred to in 1° or 3° of I of Article L. 541-1, have appropriate systems in place to obtain the relevant information referred to in 3° of Article L. 533-24 and to understand the characteristics and identify the target market defined for each financial instrument;
3° Maintain and apply effective organisational and administrative arrangements in order to take all reasonable steps to prevent conflicts of interest from adversely affecting the interests of their clients;
4° take all appropriate measures to detect conflicts of interest and avoid or manage them. These conflicts of interest are those that arise between, on the one hand, the financial investment advisors themselves, the persons placed under their authority or acting on their behalf or any other person directly or indirectly linked to them by a control relationship and, on the other hand, their clients, or between two clients, when carrying out one of the activities mentioned in I of Article L. 541-1 or a combination of these activities, including those arising from the receipt of benefits from third parties or from the remuneration structure and other incentive structures specific to the financial investment adviser.
Where these measures are not sufficient to ensure, with reasonable certainty, that the risk of prejudice to the interests of clients will be avoided, the financial investment adviser shall clearly disclose to clients, before acting on their behalf and for their account, the general nature or source of such conflicts of interest and the measures taken to mitigate such risks.
This information shall be provided in a durable medium and in sufficient detail, taking into account the nature of the client, to enable the client to make an informed decision about the activity in which the conflict of interest arises.