For the application of I of Article L. 561-5, the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 shall identify the beneficial owner of the business relationship in accordance with the procedures defined in Article R. 561-5 and shall verify the identification data collected on the beneficial owner by means of measures appropriate to the money laundering and terrorist financing risk presented by the business relationship.
To verify the identity of the beneficial owner, the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall collect, where the customer is a person or entity mentioned in Article L. 561-45-1, the information on the beneficial owner contained in the registers mentioned in Article L. 561-46 of this Code,Article 2020 of the Civil Code andArticle 1649 AB of the General Tax Code. For the same purposes of verifying this identity, they shall, if necessary, take additional measures based on a risk-based approach.
The persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 shall be able to justify to the supervisory authorities referred to in Article L. 561-36 the implementation of these measures and their appropriateness to the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing presented by the business relationship. They shall also be able to justify that the measures taken to determine the beneficial owner comply with Articles R. 561-1 to R. 561-3-0.
In accordance with the provisions of Article L. 561-12, they shall keep, as part of the documents and information relating to the identity of their customer, the documents and information relating to the identification and verification of the identity of the beneficial owner carried out in accordance with this Article, regardless of the medium used.