Article L511-2 of the French Insurance Code
I.- Distributors of insurance and reinsurance products and their staff whose activities consist of providing recommendations on insurance or reinsurance contracts, presenting, proposing or helping to conclude such contracts or carrying out other work preparatory to their conclusion, possess, prior to the commencement of their activity, the appropriate knowledge and skills to enable them to carry out their duties and meet their obligations adequately. II.-Insurance and reinsurance intermediaries and the…