The Institute may grant credit institutions and other market participants advances or loans guaranteed by appropriate collateral.
The Institute may carry out documentary and on-site inspections of credit institutions as part of its task of implementing the State’s monetary policy. Lastly, it defines the penalties applicable in the event of failure to comply with the rules it has established.
Decisions relating to the implementation of monetary policy become enforceable within ten days of their transmission to the Minister for the Economy, unless he objects. In the event of an emergency established by the Institute, this period may be reduced to two days.
The operations of this Institute include the execution of transfers between New Caledonia, French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and mainland France.
The net profits after constitution of the reserves of the Institut d’émission d’outre-mer are paid into the general budget.
The effectiveness against third parties and the enforcement of the Institute’s rights in respect of financial instruments, bills, claims or sums of money pledged, assigned in ownership or otherwise constituted as security in their favour shall not be affected by the opening of collective safeguard procedures, liquidation proceedings provided for in Book VI of the French Commercial Code and equivalent provisions applicable locally in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, or by equivalent legal or amicable proceedings under foreign law, or by any civil enforcement proceedings taken under French or foreign law, or by the exercise of a right of objection.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, no right of set-off may result in the extinction, in whole or in part, of the claims remitted to the Institute as security.