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Article A125-2 of the French Insurance Code

The annual rate of the premium or contribution for cover against the effects of natural disasters is set as follows: -contracts covering risks in category 23 of article A. 344-2 : 6% of premiums or contributions for theft and fire cover, or, failing that, 0.5% of premiums or contributions for damage cover; contracts insuring risks falling within category 24 of article A. 344-2: 12% of all premiums or contributions relating…

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Article A125-3 of the French Insurance Code

In municipalities that do not have a plan for the prevention of foreseeable natural risks for the risk concerned, the interministerial order declaring a state of natural disaster as provided for in article L. 125-1 specifies the number of declarations of a state of natural disaster that have occurred for the same risk over the five years preceding the date of the new declaration.

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Article A125-4 of the French Insurance Code

With regard to cover against the risk of natural catastrophes, the amount of the fee allocated to persons authorised to offer insurance may not exceed 8% of the amount of the premium or contribution, net of all accessories and taxes relating to this cover. However, this fee does not exclude a management commission, calculated on the basis of the work actually carried out to investigate or settle each claim.

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Article A131-1 of the French Insurance Code

Where the contracting party or beneficiary chooses cash settlement, the sum paid in accordance with the contract is equal to the foreign currency equivalent of the units of account, based on the surrender or realisation value of these securities on the date stipulated for this purpose in the contract. This date may not be more than thirty days after the date on which the claim for benefit is submitted to…

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Article A131-2 of the French Insurance Code

The value referred to in article R. 131-2 is obtained by dividing the net assets of the real estate or property company by the number of shares or units. The net assets are those shown in the last balance sheet after allocation of profits and revaluation of properties, in accordance with article R. 343-11 d. However, for the valuation of the guaranteed capital or annuity between two balance sheets, the…

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Article A131-3 of the French Insurance Code

When the unit of account used as a reference to value the capital or annuity guaranteed by the contract is an SCPI unit subject to supervision by the Commission des Opérations de Bourse, the value of this company referred to in article R. 131-2 must be the realisation value of this company within the meaning of article 11 of law no. 70-1300 of 31 December 1970 as amended.

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Article A131-4 of the French Insurance Code

The substitution of a unit of account for units of account of a comparable nature, as provided for in article R. 131-4 , is authorised by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution on the basis of a report by an expert appointed by the insurer. The expert certifies the comparability of the companies, with regard to the criteria of use – residential, offices, shopping centres – and the…

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Article A132-1 of the French Insurance Code

The rates charged by the companies carrying out the operations referred to in 1° of article L. 310-1, including those referred to in article L. 143-1 , and by the supplementary occupational pension funds referred to in article L. 381-1 must be based on a rate no higher than 75% of the average rate on French government bonds calculated on a half-yearly basis, without being able to exceed, beyond eight…

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Article A132-1-1 of the French Insurance Code

For the application of article A. 132-1, the average rate for government bonds on a half-yearly basis is determined by taking the arithmetic average over the last six months of the rates observed on the primary and secondary markets. The result of multiplying this average by 60% or 75% is called the “monthly reference rate”. The maximum technical interest rate applicable to tariffs is set on a scale of rates…

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Article A132-2 of the French Insurance Code

Undertakings carrying out the operations referred to in 1° of Article L. 310-1 and the supplementary occupational pension funds referred to in Article L. 381-1 may, under the conditions set out in Article A. 132-3, guarantee in their contracts a total amount of technical interest and bonuses which, in relation to the fraction of the mathematical provisions of the said contracts on which the guarantee takes effect, will not be…

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