Article R613-31 of the French Monetary and Financial Code
I. – Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, pursuant to I of Article L. 613-32-1, requests the authority responsible for supervision on a consolidated basis of a group or the competent authorities within the meaning of Articles L. 511-21 or L. 532-16 that a branch be considered to be of material importance, it shall justify its request by means of the information referred to in Article R….