After informing the authorities of the host Member State, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may carry out, itself or through the intermediary of persons it appoints for that purpose, on-site verifications of the information necessary for the financial supervision of branches of French insurance and reinsurance undertakings.
If, after having been informed by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of its intention to carry out the verifications referred to in the previous paragraph, the supervisory authorities of the host Member State inform it that they are unable to participate in these verifications or prohibit it from exercising its right to carry out such verifications, the Authority may refer the matter to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority in accordance with Article 19 of Regulation No 1094/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010.