Section 4: Reporting and information obligations

I. – The persons mentioned in 1° to 7°c of Article L. 561-2 shall inform the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 and their supervisory authority designated in Article L. 561-36 of the identity of their managers or agents authorised to make the declarations prescribed in Article L. 561-15. For the other persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2, the identity and capacity of the person authorised to make this declaration…

The persons referred to in 1° to 7°c of Article L. 561-2 shall inform the department referred to in Article L. 561-23 and their supervisory authority designated in Article L. 561-36 of the identity of their managers or officers responsible for responding to requests from this department and authority and for ensuring the dissemination to the relevant members of staff of general information, advice or recommendations issued by them. The…

Statutory auditors, certified public accountants, notaries, bailiffs, court-appointed administrators, court-appointed agents, lawyers acting in their capacity as fiduciaries and auctioneers are responsible, on an individual basis, regardless of the terms and conditions of their professional practice, for responding to any request from the department referred to in Article L. 561-23 and for receiving acknowledgements of receipt of declarations made by the body pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 561-15.

For avocats au Conseil d’Etat et à la Cour de cassation and avocats, except where they act as fiduciaries, the person responsible for responding to any request from the department referred to in Article L. 561-23 and for receiving acknowledgements of receipt of declarations made by the body pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 561-15 is, depending on the case, and with the option of delegation for each of…

The correspondents and registrants designated by the same person mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall provide each other with the information brought to their attention by the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 and shall keep each other informed of requests made by the department.

By way of derogation from Articles R. 561-23 and R. 561-24, the persons mentioned in 1° to 6° and 7°a of Article L. 561-2 who belong to the same group within the meaning of Article L. 561-33 may agree, in agreement with their parent undertaking or their central body, to the joint appointment of a person within the group. The person so authorised must carry out his duties in France….

The procedures provided for in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 561-33 enable the exchange of information necessary for vigilance within the group in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, including personal data relating to customers and business relationships, documents recording the characteristics of the transactions referred to in Article L. 561-10-2 and, where applicable, the information provided for in Article L. 561-20.