GROUPAMA / 2018 Registration document

8 LEGAL INFORMATION COMPANY INFORMATION

COMPANY INFORMATION

8.1

8.1.1

IDENTIFICATION

being the central body of the network of agricultural insurance ❯ and reinsurancecompanies(hereinafterthe “network”)within the meaning of Article L. 322-27-1of the French InsuranceCode. In this capacity,it is particularly responsible for: ensuring thecohesion andproper operationof the network, ■ ensuring the application of the legislative and regulatory ■ provisions relatingto the organisations within the network, exercising administrative, technical and financial control over ■ the organisationand managementof the organisationswithin the network, setting the strategic guidelines for the network, issuing any ■ appropriate instructions in this regard and ensuring their actual implementation, also taking all necessary measures to ensure solvency and ■ compliance with the commitments of each of the organisations within the network and of the entireGroup; facilitating and promoting the activity and development of ❯ membermutuals and representingand defendingtheir collective interests at the national and European levels as professional agricultural organisations; holding stakes in France and abroad, specifically in insurance, ❯ reinsurance,banking, financial servicesand related activities; and, more generally, any financial, commercial, manufacturing, ❯ civil, real-estateor property-relatedtransactionsthat might relate directly or indirectly to its corporate purpose and any similar or related purposes. Name (Article 3) 8.1.2.3 The Company’s name is the following: Caisse Nationale de RéassuranceMutuelleAgricole Groupama. Its common name is “Groupama Assurances Mutuelles”. It is referredto as the “national mutual”in these bylaws. Headquarters (Article 4) 8.1.2.4 Its headquartersare locatedat 8-10, rued’Astorg – 75008,Paris. It may be relocated to any other place within the same département or to a neighbouring département by decision of the Board of Directors,providedsuch decision is approvedby the next OrdinaryGeneral Meeting. Duration (Article 5) 8.1.2.5 The national mutual’s duration is 99 years from 11 December 1987, the date of its entry in the trade and companies register, except incase of early dissolution orextension.

The Company was founded on 11 December1987 for a period of 99 years, i.e., until 11 December 2086. It is registeredwith the Paris Trade and CompaniesRegister under number 343 115135.

8.1.2

CURRENT STATUTORY

PROVISIONS

Pursuant to Article 52 of the Sapin 2 law of 9 December2016, the General Meeting of Groupama SA,held on 7 June 2018, approved the conversion of the Company, without creating a new legal person, into a National Agricultural Reinsurance Mutual, a special form of mutual insurance company governed by Articles L. 322-26-4 and L. 322-27 of the French Insurance Code, and adopted the followingbylaws: Form (Article 1) 8.1.2.1 Between the departmental or Regional Agricultural Reinsurance Mutuals subscribing to these bylaws now or in the future, a National Agricultural ReinsuranceMutual, a special form of mutual insurance company governed by Articles L. 322-26-4 and L. 322-27 of the French Insurance Code as well as by the provisionsof these bylaws, is hereby created in the form of a trade union, in accordancewith Article L. 771-1 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code (law of 4 July 1900). Special-purpose Agricultural Reinsurance Mutuals may also subscribe to these bylaws. the reinsurance of operations falling under sectors 1 to 18 of ❯ Article R. 321-1 of the French Insurance Code carried out by regional or departmental agricultural insurance and reinsurance companies or mutuals; the substitution of agricultural insurance and reinsurance ❯ companiesand mutuals exempt from administrativeapproval for the establishment of guarantees provided for by insurance regulation and the execution of insurance commitments assumed by such companies or mutuals, pursuant to Article R. 322-132 of theFrench InsuranceCode; the reinsurance of operations falling under any sector set out in ❯ Article R. 321-1of the French InsuranceCode of all insuranceor reinsurance companies,of any corporate form,headquartered in France or abroad; engaging in any activities involving outward reinsurance, ❯ retrocession orcompensationof the risksthat it reinsures; Purpose (Article 2) 8.1.2.2 The Company’s purpose is as follows:

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