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Chapter IV: Reporting professional misconduct to the competent supervisory authorities and protection of whistleblowers

Article L634-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) shall put in place procedures to enable any person to report to them, including anonymously, through secure communication channels and guaranteeing, where applicable, the confidentiality of the identity of persons communicating information for this purpose, any breach of the obligations defined by the European regulations and by the present Code, the Insurance Code, the…

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Article L634-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The procedure established, pursuant to I of Article 8 of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of economic life, by the persons mentioned in 1° to 8° and 10° to 18° of II of Article L. 621-9 of this Code and by the persons mentioned in Article L. 612-2, when they carry out activities subject to the obligations laid down by…

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Article L634-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

III of Article 8 and Articles 10-1 and 12 to 13-1 of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernisation of economic life are applicable to any natural person who has reported in good faith to the Autorité des marchés financiers or the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution facts likely to characterise one or more of the breaches mentioned in Article…

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Article L634-4 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Natural persons implicated in an alert sent to the Autorité des marchés financiers or the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in respect of a breach mentioned in Article L. 634-1 may not be subject to a measure mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 634-3 for the sole reason that they have been the subject of such an alert. Any decision taken in disregard of the first…

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