I. – The transfer of ownership of financial securities results from the registration of these securities in the purchaser’s securities account or from the registration of these securities in favour of the purchaser in a shared electronic registration system referred to in article L. 211-3.
II. – If the securities are admitted to trading by a central depository or delivered to a financial instrument settlement system referred to in Article L. 330-1, the registration provided for in I shall take place on the date and under the conditions defined by the General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers.
By way of derogation from the above, the transfer does not take place in favour of the purchaser until the latter has paid the price. As long as the purchaser has not paid the price, the intermediary who received the financial securities is the owner. The General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers shall specify the specific procedures for transfer of ownership applicable in the case provided for in this paragraph.
III. – When transactions in financial securities are concluded on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility and the account of the purchaser’s custodian, or the account of the custodian’s authorised agent, is credited to the books of the central depository, the entry provided for in I shall be made on the effective settlement date of the transaction as specified in the operating rules of the settlement and delivery system.
This date occurs no later than the second day on which the settlement and delivery system opens after the trade, with the exception of the cases provided for in point 2 of Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories.
This same date applies where the buyer’s and seller’s financial securities are registered in the books of a common custody account keeper.