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Article R561-20-5 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The orders referred to in Article L. 561-11 shall provide for at least one of the following measures: 1° Prohibiting the establishment in France of subsidiaries, branches or representative offices of persons equivalent to those mentioned in Article L. 561-2 domiciled, registered or established in the State or territory mentioned in 3° of Article L. 561-10 or otherwise take account of the fact that the person concerned is from a…

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Article R561-21 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

For the application of II of Article L. 561-10-3, the persons mentioned in 1° to 1°c and 5° to 6°a of Article L. 561-2 shall implement the following specific due diligence measures, the intensity of which shall vary according to a risk-based approach: 1° They shall collect sufficient information on the contracting institution to know the nature of its activities and to assess, on the basis of publicly available and…

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Article R561-22-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

For the application of Articles L. 561-7, L. 561-20, 3° of Article R. 561-5-2, 2° of Article R. 561-5-3 and Article R. 561-9, the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 concerned shall assess the level of equivalence of a third country’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing obligations, taking into account in particular the information and declarations disseminated by the Financial Action Task Force and the lists published by the European…

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Article R561-22-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

For the application of 2° of Article L. 561-10 and Article L. 561-13, in the event of a transaction involving the exchange of any means of payment, chips, tokens or tickets where the amount exceeds 2,000 euros per session for the persons mentioned in 9° of Article L. 561-2 or where a player bets or wins more than 2,000 euros per transaction for the persons mentioned in 9° bis of…

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Article R561-23 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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…

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Article R561-24 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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…

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Article R561-25 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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.

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Article R561-26 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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…

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Article R561-27 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

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.

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