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Article L356-6 of the French Insurance Code

I.-The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall act as group supervisor within the meaning of 6° of Article L. 356-1: 1° When it is the competent supervisory authority for all insurance and reinsurance undertakings in the group ; 2° Subject to the application of the provisions of II: a) Where, in the case referred to in the second paragraph of Article L. 356-2, the participating undertaking is an…

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Article L356-7 of the French Insurance Code

When acting as group supervisor, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution : -coordinates the collection and dissemination of useful or essential information, both in day-to-day operations and in emergency situations, including the dissemination of information that is important for supervision by a supervisory authority; -ensures prudential control and assessment of the Group’s financial position assesses the Group’s compliance with the rules relating to solvency, risk concentration and intra-group…

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Article L356-7-1 of the French Insurance Code

I.-In order to facilitate the performance of the group supervision tasks referred to in Article L. 356-7, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, as group supervisor, constitutes and chairs the college of supervisors referred to in 7° of Article L. 356-1. II – The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution participates, when it is concerned, in colleges of supervisors chaired by another supervisory authority. III -The Autorité…

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Article L356-8 of the French Insurance Code

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall cooperate closely with the supervisory authorities of insurance or reinsurance undertakings belonging to a group in other Member States of the European Union, in particular in cases where an insurance or reinsurance undertaking belonging to a group is experiencing financial difficulties.

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Article L356-9 of the French Insurance Code

Where undertakings subject to group supervision pursuant to Article L. 356-2 do not comply with the requirements laid down in Article L. 356-15, or where these requirements are complied with but solvency may nevertheless be jeopardised, or where intra-group transactions or risk concentrations threaten the financial position of these undertakings, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall take the necessary measures to remedy the situation as soon as…

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Article L356-11 of the French Insurance Code

In the case referred to in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 356-2, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall verify whether the insurance and reinsurance undertakings are subject by the supervisory authority of the ultimate parent undertaking whose head office is outside the European Union to supervision equivalent to that to which those undertakings are subject at group level pursuant to the provisions of Sections II, III,…

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Article L356-12 of the French Insurance Code

In the case referred to in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 356-2, where it considers that the group supervision carried out by the supervisory authority of the parent undertaking whose head office is outside the European Union is not equivalent to that provided for in Sections II, III, IV, V and VI of this Chapter, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall exercise group supervision over the…

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Article L356-13 of the French Insurance Code

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article L. 356-11, where the prudential regime of a third country has been recognised as temporarily equivalent by a delegated act of the European Commission, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution nevertheless exercises the function of group supervisor in the event that a subsidiary of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking whose head office is in France has a balance sheet total greater than the…

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