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Article L322-26-9 of the French Insurance Code

I.-Mutualist certificates are redeemable only in the event of the liquidation of the issuer and after all preferential, unsecured and subordinated creditors have been paid in full. Redemption is made at the nominal value of the certificate, reduced, where applicable, by the amount of any losses charged to the formation fund. The Articles of Association may provide for losses to be charged to reserves prior to this reduction. II –…

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Article L322-27 of the French Insurance Code

The formation of agricultural mutual insurance and reinsurance companies or funds remains governed by article L. 771-1 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code. A decree of the Conseil d’Etat shall lay down the terms and conditions for the application of this article and shall define the operations referred to in article L. 310-1 which they may be authorised to carry out; their membership may be limited to persons…

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Article L322-27-1 of the French Insurance Code

The central body of the agricultural mutual insurance and reinsurance companies or funds is a société anonyme d’assurance agréée pursuant to Article L. 321-1 or a société anonyme de réassurance agréée pursuant to Article L. 321-1-1, the absolute majority of whose share capital and voting rights are held jointly, directly or indirectly, by the agricultural mutual insurance and reinsurance companies or funds with departmental or regional jurisdiction. Groupama SA is…

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Article L322-27-2 of the French Insurance Code

I. – The central body is responsible for ensuring the cohesion and smooth running of the network. It exercises administrative, technical and financial control over the organisation and management of the Network’s bodies. It sets the strategic guidelines for the network, issues all necessary instructions and ensures that they are effectively implemented. It also takes all necessary measures to guarantee the solvency and compliance with the commitments of each of…

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Article L322-28 of the French Insurance Code

Subject to the provisions of this section, the société européenne shall be governed by the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE), by the provisions of Chapter IX of Title II of Book II of the Code de commerce and by the rules of this Code applicable to sociétés anonymes which do not conflict therewith.

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Article L322-29 of the French Insurance Code

Where an insurance undertaking in the form of a société européenne registered in France intends to transfer its registered office outside France, it shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution no later than the day of publication of the proposed transfer. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 229-4 of the Commercial Code, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution is competent to oppose, in…

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Article L323-8 of the French Insurance Code

The reorganisation measures referred to in this section are measures taken, in France or in any Member State, by an administrative or judicial authority, intended to preserve or restore the financial situation of an insurance undertaking and which affect the pre-existing rights of parties other than the insurance undertaking itself. When such measures are taken in France, they are, where they affect such rights : 1° The measures referred to…

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Article L324-1 of the French Insurance Code

French insurance undertakings and their branches referred to in 1° of Article L. 310-2 as well as French branches of insurance undertakings referred to in 3° and 4° of the same Article may be authorised, under the conditions defined in this Article, to transfer all or part of their portfolio of contracts, covering risks or commitments situated in the territory of a Member State of the European Union with its…

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Article L324-1-1 of the French Insurance Code

For the purposes of Article L. 324-1, the mutual insurers and associations referred to in Article L. 211-8 of the Mutual Code and the provident institutions or associations referred to in Article L. 931-4 of the Social Security Code are treated in the same way as insurance undertakings authorised in accordance with Article L. 321-1.

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Article L324-1-2 of the French Insurance Code

The reinsurance undertakings referred to in 1° of III of Article L. 310-1-1, or their branches, may be authorised, under the conditions defined in the second paragraph, to transfer all or part of their portfolio of contracts or claims to be paid to one or more reinsurance or insurance undertakings having their head office in France or in another Member State of the European Union, one or more provident institutions…

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