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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Privileges.

Article L327-5

Where a French company has set up guarantees in a foreign country for the benefit of creditors whose rights derive from insurance contracts performed in that country, the preferential right instituted…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Monitoring and penalties.

Article L363-5

If, where France is the host Member State, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution considers that the activities of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking could jeopardise its financial…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 2: Minimum capital requirement

Article L352-5

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall hold eligible basic own funds covering the Minimum Capital Requirement, which may not be less than an absolute floor.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Penalties.

Article L328-5

Any breach of the provisions of 7° of I of article L. 311-30 and of articles L. 322-1, L. 322-2-2 and L. 322-4 of this Code, as well as of 7° of I of article L. 612-33 of the Monetary and Financial Co…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Information for the public

Article L355-5

Without prejudice to their other reporting obligations, insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall publish an annual report on their solvency and financial condition. In the event of a major event s…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Transitional measures

Article L351-5

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings may, subject to the prior approval of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, apply a transitional deduction to technical provisions. This deductio…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L356-5

…nce, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall apply the provisions of Article L. 356-4 to it. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the other supervisory authoriti…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Compensation for victims of acts of terrorism and other offences.

Article L422-5

The guarantee fund may appeal against decisions made by the commission set up byarticle 706-4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Services provided by an institution for occupational retirement provision established in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L370-5

Where the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution identifies major difficulties in applying the provisions of this Title and Title VIII of this Book, it shall inform the Commission and the Eu…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L421-5

The guarantee fund may intervene, even before the criminal courts and even for the first time on appeal, with a view in particular to contesting the principle or the amount of the compensation claimed…

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