Authorisation Portal of the ACPR	Authorisation Portal of the ECB
https://acpr-autorisations.banque-france.fr/	https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/banking/portal/imas/html/index.fr.html
Applications must be initiated by authorised persons, the applicants, through the portal. Applicants can be accredited on the portal directly by the institution's point of contact, who is appointed by the head of the institution.	The Authorisation portal of the ECB has been available online since the 27th of January 2021 for credit institutions directly supervised by the ECB.

All financial institutions and insurance undertakings seeking to submit an application with the Authorisation Directorate of the ACPR (which covers authorisations, licences, notification and reporting) must use the Authorisation portal for all these submissions.

As of the 2^nd of May 2019, paper application files are no longer accepted for these procedures.

Applications must be initiated on the portal by authorised persons, the "applicants". They can be accredited on the portal directly by the "institution’s point of contact", the latter being appointed by the head of the institution.

Institutions that have not appointed a point of contact can use the appointment form to do so.

The main features of the portal are described in this document.

Covered procedures

Banking Governance:

Instruction No 2021-I-01: appointment or reappointment of effective managers or appointment or reappointment of a member of a body of the institution.

• All institutions, except for credit institutions under the direct supervision of the European Central Bank (significant institutions), must file disclosures in the event of the appointment or reappointment of a managing director and a member of a body of the institution using the online forms on the ACPR’s Authorisation Portal.

Demonstration video:

Institutions may use the following files to pre-fill the pages of the electronic form dedicated to Reputation, Experience, Availability and Competence:

Vidéo de démonstration :

• Credit institutions under direct supervision by the European Central Bank (significant institutions) must use the electronic forms available online on the ECB’s Portal (Banking supervision portal).
• All institutions (including credit institutions under direct supervision by the European Central Bank) must use the electronic form available on the ACPR’s Authorisation Portal for renewals of membership of corporate bodies without any change of status.

Appointment of an agent for the provision of payment services:

• Declaration of an agent for the provision of payment services in France: form
• Notification of recourse to an agent so as to provide payment services in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area: form

Payment institutions:

Instruction No 2019-I-22: Application for authorisation and simplified application for authorisation for payment institutions, application for registration as an account information service provider, declaration of agents for the provision of payment services, application for exemption from authorisation [repealing Instruction No 2011-I-17]

• Annex 1: Application form for authorisation as a payment institution
• Annex 2: Simplified application form for authorisation as a payment institution

• Annex 3: Application form for registration as an account information service provider

• Annex 4: Declaration form for agents in the provision of payment services
• Annex 5: Declaration form for exemption from authorisation as a payment institution or as an electronic money institution (for providers of electronic communication networks or services)

Instruction No 2014-I-05: Declaration of payment services or ancillary services provided by an electronic money institution pursuant to Article 47 of the Arrêté du 2 mai 2013 on the prudential regulation of electronic money institutions

• Annex: Declaration of payment services or ancillary services provided by an electronic money institution

Electronic money institutions:

Instruction No 2013-I-09: Applications for authorisation, declaration of an agent, notification under freedom of establishment, notification under freedom to provide services, use of an agent and use of a distributor in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area for an electronic money institution [as amended by Instructions No 2018-I-01, 2018-I-02 and 2019-I-16]

• Annex 1: Application form for authorisation – Electronic money institutions
• Annex 2: Application form for a simplified authorisation as an electronic money institution
• Annex 3: Form for the declaration of agents providing payment services on behalf of a payment service provider
• Annex 4: Notification of the use of an agent for the purpose of providing payment services in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area
• Annex 5: Notification of the establishment of a branch in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area
• Annex 6: Notification of recourse, in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, to an electronic money distributor residing in that State
• Annex 7: Notification of intervention in another Member State of the European Union or another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area under the freedom to provide services (FPS)

Exempted institutions:

Instruction No 2013-I-13: Declaration of exemption from authorisation for credit institutions concerning the provision of banking payment services, declaration of exemption from authorisation for electronic money institutions concerning the issuance and management of electronic money, and declaration of exemption from authorisation for payment institutions concerning the provision of payment services [as amended by Instructions No 2018-I-01, 2018-I-02 and 2019-I-17]

• Annex 1: Form for the declaration of exemption from authorisation as a credit institution  
• Annex 2: Form for the declaration of exemption from authorisation as an electronic money institution
• Annex 3: Form for the declaration of exemption from authorisation as a payment institution

Position No 2022-P-01: View of the ACPR on the notions of “limited network of acceptors” and “limited range of goods and services”

• Annex 1: Yearly reporting
• English version

Other banking-related procedures:

• Change in the shareholding structure
   
• Instruction No 2018-I-07: Withdrawal of licence, authorisation or registration [amended by Instruction No 2019-I-20]
  Annex: Application form for the withdrawal of a licence, an authorisation or a registration
   
• Change of an institution’s legally registered name, change of its trade name or adoption of a trade name
  Authorisation application form
   
• Instruction No 2019-I-01: Application for an exemption from the contingency mechanism applicable to a dedicated interface for access to accounts held by a payment service provider managing accounts [amended by Instruction 2019-I-21]
  Annex: Application form for exemption
   
• Instruction No 2013-I-16: Communication to the ACPR of the international identifier (Legal Entity Identifier) [amended by Instruction No 2019-I-18]
  Annex: Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) declaration form
   
• Licensing, authorisation or registration

Insurance governance:

Instruction No 2018-I-09: Appointment or renewal of effective managers and key function holders (for institutions subject to Solvency II) [supersedes Instruction No 2017-I-08]

Instruction No 2018-I-19: Appointment or renewal of executives (for institutions that are not subject to Solvency II) [supersedes instructions No 2015-I-02 and 2017-I-10

As of the 19th of June 2020, all insurance undertakings must carry out their declarations pertaining to the appointment or renewal of effective managers or key function holders using the electronic forms available online, on the ACPR’s Authorisation portal.

Demonstration video: https://youtu.be/E3m9Bg39acA

Other insurance procedures:

• Instruction No 2015-I-15, annex 1 and annex 2: Contents of the approval application and official approval extension application for insurance and reinsurance undertakings [amended by Instruction No 2019-I-10]
   
• Instruction No 2017-I-07 and annex: Contents of applications for approval or applications for conversion of official approval applicable to supplementary occupational pension funds, supplementary occupational pension institutions, occupational pension unions or mutual occupational pension undertakings  [amended by instruction No 2018-I-14 and by instruction No 2019-I-14]
   
• Instruction No 2015-I-17 and annex: Contents of the declaration file prior to the affiliation, withdrawal or exclusion of an association of mutual insurers (Société de Groupe d’Assurance Mutuelle, SGAM), a group mutualist union (Union Mutualiste de Groupe, UMG) or a social welfare insurance group company (Société de Groupe Assurantiel de Protection Sociale, SGAPS) [amended by instruction No 2018-I-15 and by instruction No 2019-I-11]
   
• Instruction No 2015-I-34: Information to be sent to the ACPR in connection with the acquisition or extension of a holding in an insurance or reinsurance undertaking or in an insurance group company [amended by instruction No 2018-I-08 and by instruction No 2019-I-12]
  Notification form for holding acquisition or extension transactions
   
• Instruction No 2016-I-06, annex 1 and annex 2: Contents of the file required to conclude or amend a substitution agreement [amended by Instruction No 2018-I-10 and by Instruction No 2019-I-13]
   
• Instruction No 2017-I-20 and annex (French version and English version): Documents to be provided prior to carrying on insurance business under the freedom of establishment or the freedom to provide services in another EEA State [amended by Instruction No 2019-I-15]
   
• Instruction No 2015-I-12: Notification of the international “legal entity identifier” to the ACPR by insurance undertakings [amended by Instruction No 2019-I-09]
  Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) notification form