I. – Notwithstanding the provisions of Act 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or legal persons, the collège de résolution and the collège de supervision may, in the performance of their task of preventing and resolving banking crises, exchange information covered by professional secrecy with the following persons or departments:
1° The Minister for the Economy and his counterparts in the European Union;
2° The European Banking Authority ;
3° The resolution authorities of the other Member States of the European Union;
4° The competent authorities, within the meaning of Article 4(1)(40) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, of the other Member States of the European Union;
5° The Banque de France and the other central banks of the European Union;
6° The Fonds de Garantie des Dépôts et de Résolution (Deposit Guarantee and Resolution Fund) and the resolution financing mechanisms that perform equivalent tasks in the other Member States of the European Union;
7° The administrative or judicial authorities in France or in the other Member States of the European Union, mentioned in II of Article L. 613-31-2 ;
8° The Haut Conseil de Stabilité Financière (High Council for Financial Stability) or the authorities performing equivalent tasks in the other Member States of the European Union;
9° Statutory auditors or persons carrying out statutory audits in other Member States of the European Union;
10° Any potential acquirer referred to in 1° of Article L. 613-50-7;
11° The authorities of third countries performing functions equivalent to the resolution authorities, under the conditions set out in II.
The persons or services mentioned in 1° to 11° may not, where applicable, invoke professional secrecy against the resolution college or the supervisory college.
II. – The provisions of Articles L. 632-1 A, L. 632-7 and L. 632-15 are applicable to the collège de résolution with regard to cooperation and exchange of information with the resolution authorities of States that are not members of the European Union or parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area when the tasks or measures for the prevention and resolution of banking crises provided for in this section are carried out.