When applying for authorisation for the legal protection class of business in accordance with the provisions of Articles L. 321-1, L. 321-7 and L. 329-1, any insurance undertaking must indicate, when submitting the documents provided for in these four Articles, the management method adopted, from among those set out in Article L. 322-2-3.
Where the undertaking chooses to entrust claims in the legal protection branch to a legally distinct undertaking, in accordance with the provisions of the second indent of the first paragraph of Article L. 322-2-3, it must send a copy of the articles of association of this undertaking to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.
If this legally distinct undertaking has links of the kind defined inArticle L. 612-26 of the Monetary and Financial Code with another undertaking which provides insurance in one or more of the other classes mentioned in Article R. 321-1, the undertaking applying for authorisation must ensure and, in addition, certify:
1° That the members of its staff responsible for claims management or legal advice relating to such management do not carry out the same activity on behalf of the other undertaking ;
2° That its directors are not also directors of the other undertaking.