I.- The financing bodies referred to in 2°c of article R. 332-2 and the specialised professional funds referred to in 7°d of article R. 332-2 are economic loan funds.
II – The assets of economic loan funds are composed of, to the exclusion of all other items:
1° Claims on Member States of the European Union, debt securities issued by Member States of the European Union, or claims or debt securities guaranteed by Member States of the European Union;
1° bis Claims on, or debt securities issued by, local authorities or public establishments of Member States of the European Union;
1° ter Claims on, or debt securities issued by, sole proprietorships with an SIREN number or legal entities governed by private law in the Member States of the European Union, primarily engaged in commercial, industrial, agricultural, craft or real estate activities, excluding financial activities and collective investment schemes other than real estate collective investment schemes;
1°c Debt claims on, or debt securities issued by, legal entities governed by the private law of the Member States of the European Union whose purpose is exclusively, or as the case may be, mainly in addition to (1) carrying on a commercial, industrial, agricultural, craft or real estate activity, excluding financial activities, to directly or indirectly hold one or more interests in the capital of legal entities mentioned in 1° ter, or to finance, for the benefit of a person mentioned in 1°, 1° bis or 1° ter, the export, acquisition or operation of capital goods or infrastructure ;
1° quinquies Rights constituting the benefit of a trust whose assets are exclusively made up of receivables mentioned in 1°, 1° bis or 1° ter.
The rights, claims or debt securities referred to in 1°, 1° bis, 1° ter, 1° quater and 1° quinquies have a specified residual maturity of at least two years, not exceeding the maturity of the units, shares and bonds issued by the fund, company or sub-fund concerned, as the case may be, and are acquired or, in the case of claims resulting from the granting of loans, granted, within a maximum period of three years following the initial issue, in the case of a finance company, shares in the company or, where the company is an umbrella company, shares issued in respect of the relevant sub-fund or, where applicable, bonds issued by the company or that sub-fund or, in the case of a unit trust, co-ownership shares in the fund or sub-fund or, where applicable, bonds issued by the fund or sub-fund concerned;
2° Sums temporarily available and awaiting allocation or sums or securities held as a reserve or guarantee;
3° assets transferred to it as part of the realisation or constitution of collateral, guarantees and accessories attached to eligible receivables or debt securities, including equity securities under the conditions set out in Article L. 214-169 of the Monetary and Financial Code;
4° Assets transferred to it as part of the commitments it makes through the financial contracts mentioned in III of this article.
III- Economic loan funds may only enter into financial contracts if their sole purpose is to hedge the risk of variations or volatility in interest rates or exchange rates, or to manage the difference in frequency between the flows generated, on the one hand, by the securities and receivables held and, on the other hand, by the bonds and units issued.
IV – The assets of an economic loan fund are managed by a portfolio management company governed by Article L. 532-9 of the Monetary and Financial Code. A legal entity meeting the conditions set out in II of article L. 214-183 of the Monetary and Financial Code is designated as the custodian of the fund’s cash and receivables.
V.-The liabilities of an economic loan fund may consist of bonds, units or shares issued in euros, provided that the credit risk associated with holding these securities is not divided into tranches. An order of the Minister for the Economy specifies the liability structures guaranteeing an equitable allocation of losses between bond and unit holders over the life of the fund.
The specialised professional funds mentioned in the last paragraph of article R. 214-203-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code, as well as the financing organisations mentioned in article R. 214-231-1 of the same code, are deemed to comply with the provisions of the previous paragraph when their rules or articles of association provide that any capital loss will be allocated equally among unitholders, shareholders and holders of debt securities in proportion to their respective rights, including when classes of units or shares give rise to different rights to all or part of the fund’s assets or income.
VI-The fonds de prêts à l’économie may not borrow funds other than the bonds it has issued, nor may it carry out temporary sales of financial instruments as a seller.
VII – Each year, before the end of its financial year, the company responsible for managing the fund sends the insurance company that subscribed to the bonds, units or shares a report on the management of the fund and on the monitoring of the credit risk of all and each of the fund’s underlying assets. This report is used in particular by the insurance company to determine whether there are grounds for considering that the economic loan fund will be unable to meet its commitments, either for the payment of interest or the repayment of principal. The company responsible for managing the fund shall ensure that the terms of the contracts provide sufficient information to draw up this report.
VIII – The realisable value of the bonds, units and shares issued by the economic loan fund is determined quarterly by the company responsible for managing the fund, in accordance with the methodology described in the fund regulations. The valuation is certified annually by an independent expert with no financial ties to either the management company or the insurance company.