The parent undertaking of a group mentioned in I of Article L. 561-33, which has as a subsidiary or branch at least one person mentioned in 1° to 2°e, 6°, with the exception of financial investment advisors and providers of participative financing services in respect of their activities mentioned in Article L. 547-4 , and 6° bis of Article L. 561-2 or belonging to an equivalent category under foreign law, shall set up an internal control system at group level in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article R. 561-38-4.
The procedures provided for under this system, as well as the controls carried out, make it possible in particular to ensure the implementation, within the group’s branches and subsidiaries located in third countries, of measures equivalent to those provided for in Chapter I of this Title, in accordance with 1° of II of Article L. 561-33-2, as well as, where applicable, specific due diligence measures provided for by the regulatory technical standard adopted pursuant to paragraph 6 of Article 45 of Directive 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering or terrorist financing.
The managers or any natural person mentioned in I and II of Article L. 612-23-1 of the parent undertaking of the group, under the supervision of the board of directors, the supervisory board or any other body exercising supervisory functions for the group, shall take the necessary corrective measures to ensure the effectiveness of the internal control system at group level, as well as at the level of the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of Article R. 561-38-4 and their branches and subsidiaries located abroad, including, where applicable, by implementing the specific vigilance measures mentioned above.
Once a year, the board of directors, the supervisory board or any other body exercising supervisory functions of the parent undertaking approves a report on the conditions in which internal control is ensured at group level and sends it to the supervisory authority of the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of Article R. 561-38-4.
Where the persons referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 561-38-4 are affiliated to a central body, the latter shall perform the functions and assume the responsibilities of the parent undertaking of the group, within the meaning of this section.