The Supervisory Committee may at any time ask the statutory auditors and the directors of the insurance undertaking for any information on the financial situation and actuarial balance of the auxiliary allocation accounts referred to inarticle L. 142-4 of the Insurance Code. The statutory auditors are then released from their obligation of professional secrecy. The Supervisory Committee shall arrange for any expert reports necessary for its work and may, to this end, appoint an independent expert to carry out any documentary or on-site checks on the administrative, technical and financial management of the plan.
Each year, the insurance undertaking shall inform the Supervisory Committee of the amount of the technical and financial profit-sharing and consult it on the terms and conditions for its distribution among the plan members.
The members of the Supervisory Committee are bound by professional secrecy with regard to information of a confidential nature and given as such by experts and persons consulted by the Supervisory Committee under the conditions and subject to the penalties set out in Articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the French Penal Code. Experts and persons consulted by the Supervisory Board are bound by professional secrecy under the same conditions and subject to the same penalties.