I.-For the purposes of calculating the solvency of the group of an undertaking referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 356-8 which holds, through a société de groupe d’assurance, a union mutualiste de groupe, a société de groupe assurantiel de protection sociale or a mixed financial holding company, a participation in a related insurance or reinsurance undertaking or in a third-country insurance or reinsurance undertaking, the situation of this société de groupe d’assurance, this union mutualiste de groupe, this société de groupe assurantiel de protection sociale or this mixed financial holding company is taken into account.
For the sole purpose of this calculation, the intermediate insurance group company, the intermediate group mutual insurance association, the intermediate social protection insurance group company or the intermediate mixed financial holding company is treated as an insurance or reinsurance undertaking subject to the rules laid down in Section 1 of Chapter II of this Title as regards the Solvency Capital Requirement, and to the same conditions as those laid down in Section 3 of Chapter I of this Title as regards the own funds eligible to cover the Solvency Capital Requirement.
II – Where an intermediary insurance group company, a mutual group association, a social protection insurance group company or an intermediary mixed financial holding company holds subordinated debt or other eligible own funds subject to the limits provided for in Article R. 351-26, they are considered as eligible own funds up to the amounts resulting from the application of the limits provided for in the same article to the total amount of eligible own funds outstanding at group level in relation to the Solvency Capital Requirement at group level.
The eligible own funds of an intermediary insurance group company, an intermediary group mutual union, an intermediary social protection insurance group company or an intermediary mixed financial holding company which would require the prior approval of a supervisory authority in accordance with Article R. 351-20, if they were held by an insurance or reinsurance undertaking, may only be taken into account in the calculation of group solvency insofar as they have been duly approved by the group supervisor.