Subsection 2: The People's Savings Plan.

The opening of a People’s Savings Plan is the subject of a written contract between the subscriber and one of the organisations mentioned in article L. 221-18 that has signed an authorisation agreement with the State. This agreement is drawn up and signed, on behalf of the State, by the competent administrative authority.

This standard agreement specifies the obligations of the organisations in terms of information to subscribers, the declarations to be made to the administration for statistical purposes, management and control of the savings premium and the terms and conditions for payment of this premium. A people’s savings plan may have only one holder. Sums paid into a people’s savings plan may be allocated to a cash deposit account or to a…

The competent administrative authority referred to in article R. 221-65 is the Minister for the Economy.

Payments are limited to €92,000 per plan.

The popular savings plan is opened on the date of the first payment into the account or under the insurance contract.

I. – The operations authorised within the framework of the People’s Savings Plan under the Insurance Code are life insurance operations which come under classes of activity 20, 22, 23 and 26 of article R. 321-1 of this code and which include a surrender value or reduction and a guarantee in the event of life. II. – The operations authorised within the framework of the People’s Savings Plan under the…

The payments made under an insurance contract which are taken into account to assess compliance with the maximum payment limit provided for in article R. 221-68 are made up of the fraction of premiums representing the savings transaction defined by decree no. 84-269 of 11 April 1984 relating to the methods for calculating the fraction of life insurance contract premiums representing the savings transaction.

If the provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 221-18 are not complied with, the sums in all the people’s savings plans of the person who has not complied with these provisions are deemed to have been withdrawn on the date on which the people’s savings plan in excess was opened.

In the event of a payment exceeding the sum stipulated in article R. 221-68, all the sums in the people’s savings plan are deemed to have been withdrawn immediately. The same applies if, more than ten years after the popular savings plan was opened, a payment is made after a withdrawal has been made. However, this measure is not applied if the person concerned can prove that the overdraft or…

The transfer of a people’s savings plan from one management body to another does not constitute a withdrawal if the holder gives the body managing the people’s savings plan an identification certificate for the people’s savings plan to which the transfer is to be made; this certificate is issued by the body to which the people’s savings plan is transferred. In this case, the body managing the plan is required…