With a view to exercising control over insurance and reinsurance undertakings whose registered office is located in the territory of a Member State of the European Union other than France, and by way of derogation from the provisions of article 1 bis of law no. 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the communication of documents and information of an economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical nature to natural or legal persons, the supervisory authorities of the home state of the undertakings may require them and their branches established in France to communicate any information that is useful to them, commercial, industrial, financial or technical nature to natural or legal persons, the supervisory authorities of the home State of the companies may require them and their branches established in France to provide all information relevant to the exercise of this supervision.
Subject only to having informed the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution in advance, the supervisory authorities of the home State of the undertakings may carry out, themselves or through the intermediary of persons they appoint for this purpose, on-site inspections of branches established in the territory of the French Republic of insurance undertakings whose head office is located in the territory of a Member State of the European Union other than France.