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Chapter III: Specific insurance accounting policies and valuations

Article A343-1 of the French Insurance Code

With regard to the information included in the annual accounts submitted or to be submitted to the General Meeting, a set of internal procedures, known as the audit trail, must make it possible to: a) Reconstruct transactions in chronological order; b) All information is supported by an original document from which it must be possible to trace it back to the summary document and vice versa; c) Explain changes in…

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Article A343-1-1 of the French Insurance Code

The mathematical provisions of life assurance, capitalisation and nuptial-natality insurance contracts with periodic premiums must be calculated taking into account the charges for acquisition costs in the premium payer’s commitment. The provision resulting from the above calculation may not be negative, lower than the surrender value of the contract or lower than the provision corresponding to the reduced capital.

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Article A343-1-2 of the French Insurance Code

For the purposes of this article, the duration of the liabilities of an insurance undertaking is a prudent estimate of the weighted average maturity of future payments relating to regulated commitments. This estimate must be a whole number and may not exceed 8. This duration is calculated annually for the purposes of Article A. 343-1-3.

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Article A343-1-3 of the French Insurance Code

When the company decides to apply the provisions of article R. 343-6, it shall open an account, the balance of which may not at any time be in credit or exceed the total unrealised loss referred to in article R. 343-5, as follows: a) This account is debited with a sum equal to the amount of the allocation to the provision for credit risk for the financial year; b) The…

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Article A343-2 of the French Insurance Code

For the purposes of the second paragraph of article R. 343-9, the bodies whose price index forecasts constitute the reference for price index forecasts are: “The European Commission; “The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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Article A343-2-1 of the French Insurance Code

I.- Pursuant to Article R. 343-11, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may request that an expert appraisal be carried out to determine the value of all or part of the assets of undertakings, in particular buildings and shares in property companies belonging to them or on which they have granted a loan or mortgage, as well as forward financial instruments used by undertakings. The value resulting from…

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Article A343-2-2 of the French Insurance Code

For listed securities, the estimate provided for in Article R. 343-10 is made according to the same rules as those defined in article 121-6 of regulation no. 2015-11 of 26 November 2015 of the Autorité des normes comptables relating to the accounting framework for insurance undertakings, replacing the capital C by the value of the freehold at the lowest price on the day of the inventory and, for other investments,…

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Article A343-3 of the French Insurance Code

When securities subject to the capitalisation reserve are included in the portfolio, their actuarial rate of return is calculated taking into account the acquisition price, the probabilities, maturity dates and amounts, net of all taxes, of coupons, prizes and other ancillary benefits attached to these securities, and the redemption values. For the bonds referred to in the second paragraph of article R. 343-9, the calculation is made by taking the…

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Article A343-3-1 of the French Insurance Code

When a bond is sold or converted, the operation is applied to the oldest security in the portfolio. In the event of the sale or conversion of a security, the date of acquisition of the security is used to calculate its current value on the date of sale or conversion, based on the actuarial rate referred to in article A. 343-3. For the bonds mentioned in the second paragraph of…

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Article A343-3-2 of the French Insurance Code

Companies whose investments in securities subject to the capitalisation reserve do not exceed 750,000 euros at the inventory date may not apply the provisions of articles A. 343-3 and A. 343-3-1 (paragraphs 2, 4 and 5). In such cases, these companies are required to transfer to the capitalisation reserve 10% of the excess resulting from the comparison between the amount of the sale price and the entry price in the…

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