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Title II: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article D522-1-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The maximum amount of payment transactions referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 522-11-1 is set at three million euros per month. This ceiling applies to the average total amount, over the previous twelve months, of payment transactions executed by the payment institution, including its agents.

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Article D522-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.-The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall make the notification provided for in the second paragraph of 1° of I of Article L. 522-13 within one month. II -The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall make the notification provided for in 2° of I of Article L. 522-13 within three months. III – The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall make the notification provided…

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Article D524-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The following do not constitute the practice of the profession of bureau de change: 1. The activity of manual foreign exchange by the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2, other than those referred to in 1°, 1° bis, 1° ter, 5° and 7° of Article L. 561-2, where the sum of their currency purchase and sale transactions does not exceed the equivalent of 100,000 euros over the course of…

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Article D524-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – For the purposes of c of I of article L. 524-3, the beneficial owner(s) is (are) the natural person(s) defined in accordance with the provisions of article R. 561-1. II. – The managers and beneficial owners referred to in c of I of Article L. 524-3 shall provide evidence of their competence to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in one of the following ways: –…

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