I.-In an investment firm, the following persons must at all times be of sufficiently good repute and have the knowledge, skills and experience required to perform their duties:
1° Members of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board and the Management Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the Deputy Chief Executive Officers, as well as any other person or member of a body exercising equivalent functions;
2° Persons who effectively manage the company within the meaning of Article L. 532-2(4) and who are not mentioned in 1° ;
3° All persons responsible for the procedures, systems and policies mentioned in article L. 533-29, whose duties are specified by the order issued in application of the same article, and who are likely to report directly on the performance of their duties to the board of directors, the supervisory board or any other body exercising equivalent supervisory functions.
The competence of the members of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board or any other body exercising equivalent supervisory functions is assessed on the basis of their training and experience in relation to their duties. Where mandates have been previously held, competence is presumed on the basis of the experience acquired. In the case of new members, account is taken of the training from which they may benefit throughout their term of office. In the assessment of each person, account is also taken of the skills and responsibilities of the other members of the body to which that person belongs.
The members of the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board, on the one hand, and the members of the Management Board or any person who effectively manages the business of the undertaking within the meaning of Article L. 532-2-4, on the other, collectively have the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to understand all of the undertaking’s activities, including the main risks to which it is exposed.
II – Where the members of the board of directors do not meet the requirements set out in I, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall dismiss the members of that body. The Authority shall verify whether the requirements set out in I are still met when it has reasonable grounds to believe that a money laundering or terrorist financing operation or attempt is being or has been carried out in connection with the entity concerned or that there is an increased risk of such an operation or attempt.