The AMF may carry out surveillance, monitoring and investigation activities at the request of foreign authorities with similar powers. Where such activities are carried out on behalf of authorities of a State that is not a member of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, they shall be carried out subject to reciprocity.
The obligation of professional secrecy provided for in II of Article L. 621-4 shall not prevent the Autorité des marchés financiers, by way of derogation from the provisions of Law 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the communication of documents and information of a financial or technical nature to foreign natural or legal persons, from communicating the information that it holds or that it gathers at their request to foreign authorities exercising similar powers and subject to the same obligations of professional secrecy. When the information is communicated to the authorities of a State that is not a member of the European Union or a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, it shall be communicated subject to reciprocity. The AMF may also, in the performance of its duties, exchange confidential information relating to the obligations referred to in Articles L. 412-1, L. 451-1-2 and L. 451-1-3 with entities to which these authorities have delegated the supervision of their obligations, provided that these entities are subject to the same professional secrecy obligations. To this end, the Autorité des marchés financiers may enter into agreements organising its relations with these delegated entities.
The provisions of Articles L. 632-5 and L. 632-1 A shall apply to the activities governed by this article.
In addition to the agreements referred to in Article L. 632-7, the Autorité des marchés financiers may, for the implementation of the preceding paragraphs, enter into agreements organising its relations with foreign authorities exercising powers similar to its own.
The agreements referred to in Article L. 632-7 and in the previous paragraph shall be approved by the Autorité des marchés financiers under the conditions laid down in Article L. 621-3.