The legal representative of a credit institution, finance company, electronic money institution, payment institution or investment firm that intends to file an application to initiate conciliation proceedings must, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or letter delivered against receipt, submit a request for an opinion to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution before referring the matter to the president of the court. This request shall include the documents required to inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. At the request of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the request for an opinion is immediately brought to the attention of the chairman of the management board of the guarantee fund.
The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall give its opinion within one month of receipt of the request for an opinion. In the absence of a response from the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution within the given timeframe, its opinion is deemed to be favourable to the initiation of the procedure.
The opinion of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution is written and sent by any means to the applicant. The applicant shall attach this opinion, or failing this, the receipt for the application, to its application in the manner provided for in the second and third paragraphs of article 36 of decree no. 85-295 of 1 March 1985 issued for the application of law no. 84-148 of 1 March 1984 relating to the prevention and amicable settlement of company difficulties.