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Article L224-19 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The rules of the collective company pension savings plan determine the conditions under which employees are informed of its existence and content. If the plan is not set up by virtue of an agreement with the employees, the employer shall send the list of the names of all the employees to the plan manager. The manager informs each employee by name of the existence of a collective company retirement savings…

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Article L224-20 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The collective company retirement savings plan must be able to receive the payments mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L. 224-2, made in cash. The plan must also be able to receive sums from the compulsory payments mentioned in 3° of the same article by transfer from another retirement savings plan. For each voluntary payment mentioned in 1° of article L. 224-2, including the part corresponding to the additional…

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Article L224-21 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The plan rules set out the list of assets to which payments may be allocated. Where this list includes assets other than units in the company mutual funds mentioned in article L. 214-164, the plan rules provide for the setting up of a supervisory committee made up of representatives of the company and, at least half, representatives of the plan members. The procedures for appointing members are set out in…

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Article L224-22 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The plan’s supervisory committee, which meets at least once a year, is responsible for ensuring that the plan is properly managed and that the interests of plan members are represented. Every quarter, the plan manager informs the supervisory committee of the performance of the assets to which payments have been allocated and of the various charges levied. When the plan gives rise to the subscription of a group insurance contract,…

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Article L224-24 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The compulsory retirement savings plan is set up for the benefit of all employees of the company or for one or more categories of employees, provided that these categories are constituted on the basis of the objective criteria mentioned in 4° of II of article L. 242-1 of the Social Security Code. The compulsory retirement savings plan may also be set up as an inter-company compulsory retirement savings plan under…

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Article L224-25 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The compulsory retirement savings plan must be able to receive the following payments, made in cash: 1° The voluntary payments mentioned in 1° of article L. 224-2. The provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 224-20 are applicable to these payments; 2° The payments mentioned in 2° of article L. 224-2, with the exception of payments by companies as provided for in Title III of Book III of Part…

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Article L224-26 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

For each compulsory retirement savings plan that may be funded by profit-sharing and incentive schemes, a supervisory committee is set up in accordance with the provisions of articles L. 224-21 and L. 224-22. However, this supervisory committee is optional when the payments are allocated solely to the acquisition of units in company mutual funds mentioned inarticle L. 214-164 of the Monetary and Financial Code. When the plan gives rise to…

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Article L224-27 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Notwithstanding article L. 224-20, when a collective company retirement savings plan is set up, the company may decide, under the conditions mentioned in article L. 224-14, to set up compulsory payments mentioned in 3° of article L. 224-2. These compulsory payments may be reserved for one or more categories of employees, provided that these categories are constituted on the basis of the objective criteria mentioned in 4° of II ofarticle…

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Article L224-28 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The individual retirement savings plan must be able to receive the payments mentioned in 1° of article L. 224-2. Payments are made in cash. The provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 224-20 apply to these payments. It must also be able to receive the sums from the payments mentioned in 2° and 3° of article L. 224-2 by transfer from another retirement savings plan.

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