Book III: Companies.

The Minister may require disclosure of documents of a contractual or advertising nature relating to an insurance or capitalisation transaction. If it appears that a document is contrary to legislative or regulatory provisions, the Minister may require it to be amended or decide to withdraw it after receiving the opinion of the Financial Sector Consultative Committee. In urgent cases, the opinion of the Comité consultatif du secteur financier is not…

The presence of limited financial reinsurance operations is explicitly mentioned in the title of the contracts governing this type of operation.

The Minister for the Economy may, after consultation with the Consultative Committee for Financial Legislation and Regulation and at the request of one or more of the representative professional bodies mentioned in article L. 132-9-2 , approve by order the codes of conduct that these bodies have drawn up for the marketing of individual insurance policies with surrender values, capitalisation policies and policies mentioned in article L. 132-5-3 and article…

It is forbidden to take out direct insurance of a risk relating to a person, property or liability situated in the territory of the French Republic with foreign undertakings other than those referred to in article L. 310-2. However, the provisions of the above paragraph do not apply to insurance of risks relating to sea and air transport. In addition, the provisions of the previous paragraph may be waived by…

The undertakings mentioned in 3° of I of Article L. 310-2 are foreign undertakings having their registered office in the Swiss Confederation and mentioned in 2° and 3° of Article L. 310-1. For the application of this book, the companies mentioned in the previous paragraph are subject to the same provisions as companies which have their registered office in a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.