French Monetary and Financial Code
In forceFor the purposes of 2° of I of Article L. 561-5, the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 shall verify the identity of the customer in one of the following ways:
1° By using :
a) A means of electronic identification certified or attested by the Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information that complies with either the substantial or high level of guarantee set by Article 8 of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, or
b) A means of electronic identification issued under a scheme notified to the European Commission by a Member State of the European Union under the conditions laid down in paragraph 1 of Article 9 of that Regulation and whose level of guarantee corresponds to either the substantial or high level set by Article 8 of the same Regulation;
2° By using a means of electronic identification presumed to be reliable within the meaning ofArticle L. 102 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code ;
3° Where the customer is a natural person, physically present for identification purposes at the time the business relationship is established, by presenting the original of a valid official document bearing his photograph and by taking a copy of this document;
4° Where the customer is a legal entity, whose duly authorised representative is physically present for identification purposes at the time the business relationship is established, by providing the original or a copy of any deed or extract from an official register dating back less than three months or an extract from the Official Journal, stating the name, legal form, address of the registered office and the identity of the partners and corporate officers referred to in 1° and 2° of article R. 123-54 of the Commercial Code, the legal representatives or their equivalents under foreign law. The identity of the legal entity may also be verified by obtaining a certified copy of the document directly from the commercial court registries or an equivalent document under foreign law;
5° In addition, where the customer is acting within the framework of a trust or an equivalent legal arrangement under foreign law, the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall obtain, depending on the method of setting up the arrangement, a copy of the trust contract drawn up pursuant toArticle 2012 of the Civil Code, an extract from the Official Journal of the law establishing the trust pursuant to the same Article 2012 or any equivalent document or deed relating to an equivalent legal arrangement under foreign law.
