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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exchange of information

Article L561-29

…is Title that it usually exercises at national level.This department may not pass on to another competent authority information thus communicated to it by a counterpart financial intelligence unit wit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Procedures and internal control

Article L561-32

I. - The persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 shall set up an organisation and internal procedures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, taking into account the risk assessment provid…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-3

…ion or execution of transactions concerning :a) The purchase and sale of real estate or business assets;b) The management of funds, securities or other assets belonging to the client;c) Opening bank,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-7-1

Lawyers and the persons mentioned in 18° of Article L. 561-2 may provide each other with information gathered for the purposes of implementing Articles L. 561-5, L. 561-5-1, L. 561-6, and L. 561-9 to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-9

…ing and there is no suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing. A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall lay down the conditions for application of this article and the list referred to in 2°.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Customer due diligence obligations

Article L561-10-1

I. - When the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing presented by a business relationship, product or transaction appears to them to be high, the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 shall…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation and mission

Article L561-23

I - A national financial intelligence unit shall exercise the powers provided for in this chapter. It shall be made up of agents specially authorised by the Minister for the Economy. The conditions of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Powers and prerogatives

Article L561-24

…department referred to in Article L. 561-23 may oppose the execution of a transaction that has not yet been executed, of which it has become aware as a result of information communicated to it under A…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exchange of information

Article L561-29-1

…be involved is not identified at the time the exchange occurs, and if the following conditions are met: a) The foreign authorities are subject to at least equivalent obligations of confidentiality ; b…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2-3

…e provisions of this chapter for projects whose financing corresponds to amounts below a threshold set by decree.

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