I. – For the purposes of 1° of article L. 561-10, a person exposed to particular risks by virtue of their duties is a person who holds or has held for less than one year one of the following positions:
1° Head of State, head of government, member of a national government or of the European Commission ;
2° Member of a national parliamentary assembly or the European Parliament, member of the governing body of a political party or grouping subject to the provisions of law no. 88-227 of 11 March 1988 or of a foreign political party or grouping;
3° Member of a Supreme Court, Constitutional Court or other high court whose decisions are not, save in exceptional circumstances, subject to appeal;
4° Member of a court of auditors;
5° Director or member of the management body of a central bank;
6° Ambassador or Chargé d’Affaires;
7° General officer or senior officer in command of an army;
8° Member of an administrative, management or supervisory body of a public company;
9° Director, deputy director or member of the board of an international organisation created by treaty, or a person occupying an equivalent position within such an organisation.
The international organisations accredited on national territory draw up and update the list of positions referred to in 9°, each in their own area of responsibility.
An order of the Minister for the Economy sets the list of positions to which the positions listed above correspond at national level.
II. – The following are deemed to be direct family members of the persons mentioned in I:
1° The spouse or common-law partner ;
2° The partner bound by a civil solidarity pact or by a partnership contract registered under foreign law ;
3° Children, as well as their spouse, their partner bound by a civil solidarity pact or by a partnership contract registered under foreign law;
4° First-degree relatives in the ascending line.
III. – The following are considered to be persons closely associated with the persons mentioned in I:
1° Natural persons who, together with the person mentioned in I, are the beneficial owners of a legal entity, a collective investment, a trust or a comparable legal arrangement under foreign law;
2° Individuals who are the sole beneficial owners of a legal entity, collective investment scheme, trust or comparable legal arrangement under foreign law that is known to have been set up for the benefit of the person referred to in I ;
3° Any natural person known to have close business ties with the person mentioned in I.