In accordance with article R. 356-17, when an undertaking mentioned in the first paragraph of article R. 356-8 is a participating undertaking of a credit institution, an investment firm or a financial institution, that undertaking applies, for the calculation of the group’s solvency, the accounting consolidation method, known as method No. 1, defined in Article 9 of the Order of 3 November 2014 on the supplementary supervision of financial conglomerates or the deduction and aggregation method, known as method No. 2, defined in Article 10 of that same Order.
However, method no. 1 is applied only when the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution as group supervisor is satisfied with the level of integration of the management and internal control of the entities that would fall within the scope of consolidation.