An owner of registered financial securities may instruct an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3 to maintain his securities account with an issuer or to administer the entries appearing in the shared electronic recording device referred to in the same Article. In this case, the entries appearing in this securities account or in the shared electronic recording device also appear in an administration account held by this intermediary. The holder of the securities account undertakes to give orders only to this intermediary.
An owner of bearer financial securities registered in a shared electronic record-keeping device pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on a pilot scheme for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology and amending Regulations (EU) No 600/2014 and (EU) No 909/2014 and Directive 2014/65/EU may instruct an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3 or a “DLT market infrastructure” within the meaning of that same regulation to hold the means of access to its securities, including in the form of private cryptographic keys, and to process events concerning those securities, under the conditions set by the General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers.