The undertakings referred to in Article L. 310-3-2 are required to set up a permanent internal control system.
At least once a year, the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board approves a report on internal control, which is sent to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.
The first part of this report details the conditions under which the work of the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board is prepared and organised and, where applicable, the restrictions placed by the Board of Directors on the powers of the Chief Executive Officer in the performance of his duties.
However, companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market are not required to provide this information when they send the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution the report referred to in Article L. 225-37 or Article L. 225-68 of the Commercial Code, as the case may be.
The second part of this report details
a) The objectives, methodology, position and general organisation of internal control within the company, the measures taken to ensure the independence and effectiveness of internal control and in particular the skills and experience of the teams responsible for implementing it, and the action taken on the recommendations of the persons or bodies responsible for internal control;
b) the procedures for verifying that the undertaking’s activities are carried out in accordance with the policies and strategies established by the governing bodies and that insurance or reinsurance transactions comply with legal and regulatory provisions;
c) the methods used to measure, evaluate and control investments, in particular the evaluation of asset quality and asset-liability management, the monitoring of forward financial instrument transactions and the assessment of the performance and margins of the financial intermediaries used;
d) the internal control system for investment management, including the internal allocation of responsibilities within the staff, the persons responsible for carrying out transactions who may not also be responsible for monitoring them, the delegation of powers, the dissemination of information and the internal control or audit procedures;
e) the procedures and systems used to identify, assess, manage and control the risks associated with the undertaking’s commitments and to hold sufficient capital for these risks, as well as the methods used to verify that practices relating to the acceptance and pricing of risk, reinsurance cessions and the provisioning of regulated commitments comply with the undertaking’s policy in these areas, as defined in the reports referred to in Article L. 336-1 and Article R. 336-5;
f) The measures taken to monitor the management of claims, the monitoring of subsidiaries, the control of outsourced activities and the methods of marketing the company’s products and the risks that may result.