Subject to reciprocity, the third-country auditors mentioned in I of Article L. 822-1-5 may be exempted from the requirement to be registered on the list mentioned in II of Article L. 822-1 by decision of the Haut conseil du commissariat aux comptes.
This exemption is granted if the third-country auditor is approved by a competent authority of a State whose system of public oversight, quality assurance, investigation and sanctions has been the subject of an equivalence decision by the European Commission on the basis of Article 46 of Directive 2006/43/EC of 17 May 2006.
In the absence of a decision by the European Commission, the High Council assesses this equivalence in the light of the requirements set out in Articles L. 820-1 et seq. Where the Commission has defined general assessment criteria, the High Council applies them.
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