The TRACFIN (Traitement du renseignement et action contre les circuits financiers clandestins) department, provided for in Article L. 561-23, is attached to the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for the Budget and is responsible for :
1° Receive and process, under the conditions provided for by the legislation in force, the declarations prescribed in Article L. 561-15 and the other information provided for in Chapter I of Title VI of Book V of the Legislative Part of this Code;
2° To collect, process and disseminate information relating to the offences referred to in Article L. 561-15 ;
3° Receive and process requests for information made pursuant to Articles L. 561-29 and L. 561-29-1 by counterpart foreign financial intelligence units;
4° Leading and coordinating, where necessary, at national and international level, the investigative resources available to the administrations or departments reporting to the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for the Budget, as well as the bodies attached to them, for the purposes of investigating the offences referred to in Article L. 561-15 ;
5° Participate in the study of measures to be implemented to counter clandestine financial circuits, money laundering and the financing of terrorism;
6° Develop, in conjunction with the relevant departments of the Minister for the Economy and the Minister for the Budget, international action to combat underground financial circuits, money laundering and the financing of terrorism;
7° Researching, collecting, exploiting and transmitting the intelligence referred to inArticle L. 811-2 of the Internal Security Code, in its capacity as the specialised intelligence service designated by Article R. 811-1 of the same code.