The competent judicial authorities hearing proceedings relating to offences involving companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market or offered to the public on a multilateral trading facility, or to offences committed in connection with transactions on a market in financial instruments or assets referred to in II of Article L. 421-1, may, at any stage of the proceedings, request the opinion of the Autorité des marchés financiers. This opinion must be sought when proceedings are instituted pursuant to Articles L. 465-1 to L. 465-3-3.