The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is the single authority serving as a contact point for receiving requests for exchanges of information or cooperation from the authorities of other Member States of the European Union or other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as well as from the European Securities and Markets Authority when these requests relate to the implementation of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2011. The Autorité des marchés financiers shall also be the single authority serving as the contact point for receiving requests for exchanges of information or cooperation from the authorities of other Member States of the European Union or other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area where such requests are made pursuant to the provisions of Directive 2014/65/ EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments.
The Autorité des marchés financiers shall immediately communicate the information required for the performance of their duties to the competent authorities of the other Member States of the European Union or the other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area that have been designated as contact points for the application of paragraph 1 of Article 67 of Directive 2014/65/ EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and to those competent for the application of Directive 2009/65/EC of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of laws, administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities.
The Autorité des marchés financiers shall, without delay and on a bilateral basis, communicate to the competent authorities of the other Member States of the European Union directly concerned information on the significant counterparty risk that an AIF or its management company under its responsibility is likely to present for a credit institution or other systemically important institutions in those other States.
The Autorité des marchés financiers shall immediately forward the information received under this Article, II of Article L. 612-44 and Articles L. 621-23 and L. 632-7 to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. It shall only transmit such information to other bodies or persons with the express consent of the competent authorities that disclosed it and for the purposes for which those authorities gave their consent, unless this is justified by the urgency of the matter. In the latter case, the Autorité des marchés financiers shall immediately inform its counterpart that sent the information.
When the Autorité des marchés financiers receives personal data from the competent authorities of another Member State of the European Union or of a third country, such data shall be kept for a maximum period of five years.