Deposits of funds with a maximum maturity of two years received by the regional or local mutual agricultural credit banks benefiting from advances from the central body of Crédit Agricole must be used exclusively for short-term credit transactions.
Caisses de crédit agricole mutuel that fail to comply with this requirement may not receive new advances from the central body of Crédit Agricole for medium-term loans or individual and group long-term loans until their situation has been regularised.
Deposits of funds received by these caisses, and maturing in more than two years, are used by them in medium- or long-term credit transactions of a corresponding duration or in short-term credit transactions.