A central depository shall open accounts for issuers of financial securities admitted to its operations and for intermediaries referred to in Article L. 211-3 who thereby become members.
For financial securities admitted to its operations, it ensures delivery by debiting and crediting the accounts opened for its members.
Where the central depository is a “DLT market infrastructure” within the meaning of 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, the first two paragraphs shall not apply if the competent national authorities have granted an exemption on the basis of Article 5(2) of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) 2022/858.