Dividends, interest, arrears and all other income from foreign securities which French insurance and reinsurance companies are obliged to deposit and keep on deposit abroad, in order to constitute sureties, are exempt from the proportional tax on income from foreign securities which are not subject to the subscription system, mathematical reserves and any other reserves for claims to be settled and for current risks, when this obligation is imposed on the aforementioned companies, either by local laws or by the clauses of their reinsurance treaties which require them to participate, to the extent of the risks taken in reinsurance, in the deposits imposed by local laws on the reinsured companies.
This exemption is subject to proof of the deposits thus constituted abroad; it ceases as soon as these deposits no longer fall within the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
The same exemption applies to dividends, interest, arrears and all other income from foreign securities not covered by the provisions of the first paragraph, when these securities represent technical reserves which French insurance companies invest in securities denominated in foreign currencies, in accordance with article 165 of the decree of 30 December 1938, and insofar as the securities correspond to compulsory technical reserves calculated in accordance with French legislation on insurance supervision.