Section 5: The national financial intelligence unit

The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 shall receive, at the initiative of State administrations, local and regional authorities, public establishments, the bodies referred to inArticle L. 134-1 of the Financial Jurisdictions Code and any other person entrusted with a public service mission, all the information necessary for the performance of its mission or shall obtain it in good time from them at its request. For the purposes of…

I. – The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 shall exchange with the supervisory authorities, professional bodies and national representative bodies referred to in Article L. 561-36 any information that may be useful for the performance of their respective duties in the application of this chapter. II. – When, in the performance of their duties, the supervisory authorities and professional bodies discover facts likely to be related to money…

The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 shall receive, at its request or at their initiative, the information and requests from counterpart foreign financial intelligence units necessary for the performance of its duties. It shall process such requests as quickly as possible, making use of the powers and prerogatives provided for in this Title that it usually exercises at national level. This department may not pass on to another…

I. – The department referred to in Article L. 561-23 may also communicate as soon as possible, at their request or on its own initiative, to counterpart foreign financial intelligence units information that it holds on sums or transactions that appear to have as their purpose the laundering of the proceeds of an offence punishable by a custodial sentence of more than one year or the financing of terrorism, subject…

When the department referred to in Article L. 561-23 receives a report made in accordance with Article L. 561-15 that concerns another Member State of the European Union, it shall forward this report without delay to the counterpart financial intelligence unit of that Member State, in accordance with the procedures specified by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.