Where the agreement provides for the possibility of a reduction in the value of the annuity unit, this reduction may only occur where the ratio between, on the one hand, the sum of the special technical provision and the net unrealised gains and losses on the assets allocated to the special technical provision and, on the other hand, the theoretical mathematical provision is less than 0.95 at the financial year-end or where it has been less than 1 for three financial years.
For the application of the first paragraph, no account is taken of financial years closed before 1 January 2017, nor of financial years closed before the introduction in the agreement of the possibility of a reduction in the service value of the annuity unit.
The reduction referred to in the first paragraph may only be implemented if :
a) An annual reduction in the annuity unit’s value in service does not result in the ratio, at the end of the financial year preceding the date on which the decision to reduce the value in service was taken, between, on the one hand, the sum of the special technical provision and the net unrealised gains or losses on the assets allocated to the special technical provision and, on the other hand, the theoretical mathematical provision exceeding 1.05 ;
b) The service value of the annuity unit has not decreased by more than one third over the last sixty months.