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Article L142-4 of the French Insurance Code

By way of derogation from the provisions of the Commercial Code relating to parent company financial statements, insurance undertakings shall set up a subsidiary accounting system for the commitments referred to in Article L. 142-1. Commitments which are not allocated to this subsidiary accounting system shall be transferred to it before 1 January 2023. The insurance undertaking shall ensure that this transfer is not detrimental to the interests of the…

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Article L142-5 of the French Insurance Code

Without prejudice to the rights of holders of claims arising from the management of these operations, no creditor of the insurance undertaking other than policyholders, members, insured persons or beneficiaries in respect of commitments covered by the auxiliary allocation accounts referred to in Article L. 142-4 may not claim any right over the assets and rights resulting from the accounting records in these accounts on the basis of Articles L….

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Article L142-6 of the French Insurance Code

In the event of insufficient coverage of the commitments covered by the auxiliary allocation accounts referred to in Article L. 142-4, and without prejudice to any proceedings under Title I of Book III, the insurance undertaking and the policyholder(s) shall agree on a recovery plan to re-establish coverage of these commitments by allocating new assets of the insurance undertaking, under conditions agreed between the insurance undertaking and the policyholder(s) of…

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Article L142-7 of the French Insurance Code

I.-Before 1 January 2023, insurance undertakings may be authorised, under the conditions set out in this article, to transfer all or part of their portfolio of commitments corresponding to : the contracts mentioned in 1°, 2°, 5° and 7° of article L. 224-40 of the French Monetary and Financial Code; -defined-benefit contracts whose performance is linked to the cessation of professional activity, in particular those mentioned in articles L. 137-11…

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Article L142-8 of the French Insurance Code

The transfer value of retirement savings plans and French sub-accounts of the pan-European individual retirement savings product giving rise to subscription to a group insurance contract whose guarantees are expressed in units of annuity is determined using a calculation method that takes into account the amount of rights acquired by the holder and the level of cover of the insurance company’s commitments. This calculation method is specified by decree.

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Article L143-0 of the French Insurance Code

The rights associated with supplementary occupational pension contracts offered by supplementary occupational pension funds or insurance companies are payable to the beneficiary from the earliest of the date of liquidation of his pension under a compulsory old-age insurance scheme to which the beneficiary has contributed or the age mentioned inArticle L. 161-17-2 of the Social Security Code. If the beneficiary of the contract leaves the company, his pension rights shall…

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Article L143-1 of the French Insurance Code

This section applies to operations carried out by supplementary occupational pension funds as part of their administrative authorisation. As part of this authorisation, contracts may be offered whose purpose is to provide retirement benefits linked to a professional activity, paid in addition to the benefits provided by the basic and supplementary schemes required by law or allocated by reference to the prospect of reaching retirement age. These contracts are taken…

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Article L143-2 of the French Insurance Code

The benefits provided under the contracts referred to in article L. 143-1 may include additional cover in the event of the member’s death before or after ceasing professional activity, as well as in the event of disability and incapacity. Individual rights currently being built up under the contracts mentioned in article L. 143-1 may be transferred to another contract mentioned in article L. 143-1, as well as, under conditions and…

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Article L143-2-1 of the French Insurance Code

The assets of each contract covered by this section and subject to sub-accounting are held by one or more custodians separate from the supplementary occupational pension fund, which primarily provide the service referred to in 1° of Article L. 321-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code and are authorised in France or in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area….

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Article L143-2-2 of the French Insurance Code

The notice referred to in article L. 141-4 indicates that the contract taken out is a supplementary occupational pension contract covered by this section. An order of the Minister for the Economy sets the list of minimum information contained in this notice. When their rights are settled, the supplementary occupational pension fund informs each member and beneficiary, under conditions defined by order of the Minister for the Economy, of the…

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