Section 3: Miscellaneous provisions.

I.-The persons designated under the conditions provided for in III of article L. 812-2 are placed under the supervision of the Public Prosecutor and are subject, for this professional activity, to inspections by the public authorities during which they are required to provide all useful information or documents without being able to invoke professional secrecy.

The organisation and procedures for these inspections are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

II.-They are subject to supervision of this professional activity. This supervision is entrusted to the national council mentioned in article L. 814-2. They are required, without being able to invoke professional secrecy, to comply with requests from the persons responsible for the audit to provide any useful information or documents.

The organisation and procedures for this inspection shall be determined by decree of the Conseil d'Etat.

III.-They are required to appoint a statutory auditor to audit their special accounts and, in this capacity, to carry out an ongoing audit of all funds, bills, securities and other assets belonging to third parties that they hold by virtue of a mandate received in the performance of their duties.

For the purposes of the audit provided for in the previous paragraph, the statutory auditors may also have access to the general accounts of the office, to the procedures entrusted to them and be provided by them or by the third parties holding the funds, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, with any information that may be useful for their audit.

They shall inform the authorities entrusted with the supervision, inspection and control of the persons mentioned in III of Article L. 812-2 of the results of their mission and report any anomalies or irregularities of which they become aware during the performance of their mission, in accordance with the conditions laid down by decree of the Conseil d'Etat.

They are also required to comply with requests from the persons responsible for the control or inspection to disclose any information gathered or any document drawn up in the course of their duties, without being able to invoke professional secrecy.

IV.-Caisse des dépôts et consignations is required, without being able to invoke professional secrecy, to comply with the requests of the persons in charge of the inspection as well as those of the national council mentioned in Article L. 814-2 for the purposes of the supervision for which it is responsible, requesting any information or document that may be useful in gaining knowledge of the movements of funds in the accounts opened in its books in the name of each person mentioned in III of Article L. 812-2 and of the sums deposited therein in respect of the mandates to which the inspection or supervision relates.