Translation of "Professional discretion " (English → French) :

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6. Point out that the Court of Justice has allowed national legislators and professional associations and bodies a margin of discretion when deciding what is appropriate and necessary to protect the proper exercise of the legal professions in a Member State;

The extension of the requirements laid down in the money laundering directive to cover lawyers as a matter of principle has given rise to doubts as to whether the complete confidentiality of the information communicated to a lawyer is still guaranteed. This question is all the more relevant because in individual cases a client at least may find it difficult to draw a distinction between a lawyer's financial service-related activities, pursuant to the list in Article 2(1)(3)(b), and the act of providing legal advice, which is covered by lawyer-client privilege. Under these circumstances, it is particularly worrying that the protection of professional confident ...[+++]iality should not be a binding requirement, but has instead been left to the discretion of the Member States.

(20) In the case of notaries and independent legal professionals, Member States should be allowed, in order to take proper account of these professionals' duty of discretion owed to their clients, to nominate the bar association or other self-regulatory bodies for independent professionals as the body to which reports on possible money laundering cases may be addressed by these professionals.

(20) In the case of notaries and independent legal professionals, Member States should be allowed, in order to take proper account of these professionals' duty of discretion owed to their clients, to nominate the bar association or other self-regulatory bodies for independent professionals as the body to which reports on possible money laundering cases may be addressed by these professionals.

Whereas the Directive makes reference to “the authorities responsible for combating money laundering” to which reports of suspicious operations must be made; whereas in the case of independent lawyers and to take proper account of the professional duty of discretion owed by the lawyer to his client Member States should be allowed to nominate the bar association or other lawyers" professional organisation as the responsible authority; whereas the rules governing the treatment of such reports and their possible onward transmission to the police or judicial authorities and in general the appropriate forms of co-operation between the bar a ...[+++]ssociations or professional bodies and the authorities responsible for combating money laundering shall be determined by the Member States;