I. – When the competent authorities of a Member State or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area wish, in specific cases, to verify the information relating to an entity established in France, whether regulated or not, which is part of a financial conglomerate and referred to in Article L. 612-26, they shall ask the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or, where applicable, the Autorité des marchés financiers to have the verification carried out.
The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or, where applicable, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall, within the scope of its powers, either carry out the verification itself, or allow the authority that submitted the request to carry it out itself, or allow an auditor or expert to carry it out.
Where it does not carry out the verification itself, the competent authority that submitted the request may, if it so wishes, be involved.
II. – When the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution or, where applicable, the Autorité des marchés financiers wishes, in specific cases, to verify the information relating to an entity, whether regulated or not, which belongs to a financial conglomerate and which has its registered office in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, it shall ask the competent authorities of that State to have the verification carried out in accordance with the procedure referred to in I.