The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall inform the European Commission, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the supervisory authorities of the other Member States of any decision to authorise an insurance or reinsurance undertaking controlled by a parent undertaking within the meaning of Article L. 356-1, the head office of which is established in a State which is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. This information specifies the structure of the group.
At the request of the competent authority of the European Communities on the grounds that it has been established that insurance undertakings with their head office in a Member State of the Communities do not have access to the market of a State which is not a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or do not benefit from the same treatment as undertakings with their head office there, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall suspend, for a period of three months, any decision on the authorisation of an undertaking controlled by an undertaking with its head office in the said State. The three-month period may be extended by decision of the Council of the Communities.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to the creation of an insurance undertaking controlled by an insurance undertaking already established in the territory of a Member State of the European Communities.
Where, for a period of three months, extendable by decision of the Council of the European Communities, the Commission of the European Communities decides to postpone any decision concerning the authorisation of insurance undertakings which are direct or indirect subsidiaries of undertakings governed by the law of a third country, the authorisation granted during the period referred to above to such undertakings by the competent authority of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area which is not a member of the European Communities shall not, during that period, have any legal effect in the territory of the French Republic, and in particular shall not entitle the undertaking concerned to carry on insurance business there.