The bodies referred to in Article L. 771-1 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code are subject to the following requirements:
1° Their object must be either exclusively insurance or exclusively reinsurance;
2° They may not carry out insurance operations other than those mentioned in 2° and 3° of article L. 310-1;
3° They guarantee, in return for payment of a fixed or variable premium, full settlement of the commitments entered into with regard to their members, in the event of realisation of the risks covered by these commitments;
4° The risks they insure or reinsure may only be ceded or retroceded to organisations falling within the scope of this section and which, according to their articles of association, have departmental or regional competence in the case of reinsurance by a local organisation, or to the central body defined in Article L. 322-27-1 in the case of retrocessions by a departmental or regional organisation.
The provisions of Articles R. 322-83 and R. 322-84 do not apply to the above-mentioned bodies.