【正文】 (a) by furnishing those authorities, at their request, with all necessary information, in accordance with the procedures established by the applicable legislation. 2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be forwarded to the authorities responsible for bating money laundering of the Member State in whose territory the institution or person forwarding the information is situated. The person or persons designated by the institutions and persons in accordance with the procedures provided for in Article 11(1)(a) shall normally forward the information. 3. In the case of the notaries and independent legal professionals referred to in Article 2a(5), Member States may designate an appropriate selfregulatory body of the profession concerned as the authority to be informed of the facts referred to in paragraph 1(a) and in such case shall lay down the appropriate forms of cooperation between that body and the authorities responsible for bating money laundering. Member States shall not be obliged to apply the obligations laid down in paragraph 1 to notaries, independent legal professionals, auditors, external accountants and tax advisors with regard to information they receive from or obtain on one of their clients, in the course of ascertaining[26] the legal position for their client or performing their task of defending or representing that client in, or concerning judicial proceedings, including advice on instituting or avoiding proceedings, whether such information is received or obtained before, during or after such proceedings. Article 7 Member States shall ensure that the institutions and persons subject to this Directive refrain[27] from carrying out transactions which they know or suspect to be related to money laundering until they have apprised the authorities referred to in Article 6. Those authorities may, under conditions determined by their national legislation, give instructions not to execute the operation. Where such a transaction is suspected of giving rise to money laundering and where to refrain in such manner is impossible or is likely to frustrate efforts to pursue the beneficiaries of a suspected moneylaundering operation, the institutions and persons concerned shall apprise the authorities immediately afterwards. Article 8 institutions and persons subject to this Directive and their directors and employees shall not disclose to the customer concerned nor to other third persons that information has been transmitted to the authorities in accordance with Articles 6 and 7 or that a money laundering investigation is being carried out. 2. Member States shall not be obliged under this Directive to apply the obligation laid down in paragraph 1 to the professions mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 6(3). Article 9 The disclosure in good faith to the authorities responsible for bating money laundering by an institution or person subject to this Directive or by an employee or director of such an institution or person of the information referred to in Articles 6 and 7 shall not constitute a breach of any restriction on disclosure of information imposed by contract or by any legislative, regulatory or administrative provision, and shall not involve the institution or person or its directors or employees in liability of any kind. Article 10 Member States shall ensure that if, in the course of inspections carried out in the institutions or persons subject to this Directive by the petent authorities, or in any other way, those authorities discover facts that could constitute evidence of money laundering, they inform the authorities responsible for bating money laundering. Member States shall ensure that supervisory bodies empowered by law or regulation to oversee the stock, foreign exchange and financial de