I. – (Repealed).
II. – The staff and agents of the Autorité des marchés financiers, its appointed experts and the experts appointed to the Consultative Commissions referred to in III of Article L. 621-2 are bound by professional secrecy under the conditions and subject to the penalties laid down in Article L. 642-1.
This secrecy may not be invoked against the judicial authority acting in the context of either criminal proceedings or receivership or liquidation proceedings instituted against a person referred to in II of article L. 621-9.
III. – The provisions of Chapter VIII of Title II of Book 1 of the Commercial Code are applicable to the members of the Autorité des marchés financiers. No person may be a member of the Autorité des marchés financiers if he or she has been sanctioned under the provisions of this Code during the previous five years.