Article L133-39 of the French Monetary and Financial Code
I. – Where the payment is initiated by means of a card-linked payment instrument, the payment service provider managing the account shall, at the request of one of the payment service providers issuing that instrument, immediately confirm whether the amount required to execute the card-linked payment transaction is available on the payer’s payment account, provided that all of the following conditions are met: 1° The payer’s payment account is accessible…