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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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Article L324-2 of the French Insurance Code

When the merger operations referred to in Article L. 236-1 of the Commercial Code or the demerger operations referred to in Article L. 236-18 of the same Code involve transfers of the portfolio of contracts carried out under the conditions provided for in Article L. 324-1, the provisions of Articles L. 228-65, L. 228-73, L. 236-14, L. 236-15, L. 236-16, L. 236-23 and L. 236-26 of the said Code do…

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Article L324-3 of the French Insurance Code

Where the merger or demerger does not involve the transfer of a portfolio of policies in accordance with Article L. 324-1, the undertakings governed by this Book are required to submit a declaration to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, together with all relevant documents, setting out the aims and terms of the proposed transaction one month before its final completion. During this period, the Autorité de contrôle…

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