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Article L722-14 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.-The intermediary payment service provider shall apply effective procedures to detect whether the fields relating to information on the payer and payee provided for in the messaging or payment and settlement system used to effect a transfer of funds have been filled in using characters or elements that are permissible under the conventions of that system. The intermediary payment service provider shall apply effective procedures including, where applicable, a posteriori…

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Article L722-15 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

In compliance with the procedures set out in Title VI of Book V, payment service providers shall respond fully and without delay to requests for information on the payer and payee sent to them by the department referred to in Article L. 561-23, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the judicial authorities and criminal investigation officers. The information communicated pursuant to the first paragraph may only be used…

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Article L722-18 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Failure to comply with the obligations set out in Articles L. 722-6 to L. 722-8 is punishable by a fine equal to 50% of the sum involved in the offence or attempted offence. If the offence referred to in the first paragraph is detected by customs officers, they may temporarily detain all the cash involved in the offence or attempted offence for a period of no more than thirty days,…

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Article L722-19 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Where there are indications that cash worth less than €10,000 or CFP francs 1,193,300, carried by a bearer or forming part of a consignment without the intervention of a bearer, coming from or going to a foreign country is linked to one of the activities punishable by the offences referred to in I of Article L. 561-15, customs officers may temporarily detain it in accordance with the procedures set out…

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Article L722-20 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The temporary detention order referred to in Articles L. 722-18 and L. 722-19 may be appealed, by the person to whom the temporary detention order is notified, to the President of the High Court of Appeal of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon or to the President of the Investigating Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Basse-Terre for Saint-Barthélemy, of Nouméa for New Caledonia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands or of Papeete for…

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Article L722-21 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The provisions of Articles L. 722-6 to L. 722-8, L. 722-18 to L. 722-20 do not apply to financial relations between : 1° On the one hand, New Caledonia and, on the other hand, mainland France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Mayotte, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands ; 2° On the one hand, French Polynesia and, on the other hand, mainland France, Guadeloupe, French…

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