GROUPAMA / 2019 Universal Registration Document

8 LEGAL INFORMATION Company information

8.1

COMPANY INFORMATION

8.1.1

IDENTIFICATION

French Insurance Code as well as by the provisions of these bylaws, is hereby created in the form of a trade union, in accordancewith Article L. 771-1of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code (law of 4 July 1900). Special-purpose Agricultural Reinsurance Mutuals may also subscribe to these bylaws.

The Companywas founded on 11 December1987 for a period of 99 years, i.e. , until 11 December 2086. It is entered in the Paris trade and companies register under number 343 115 135. Its LEI code is 969500P4HYOPYINEPE06.

Purpose (Article 2) 8.1.2.2 The company’spurposeis as follows:

8.1.2

CURRENT STATUTORY

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 the French Insurance Code; the reinsuranceof operations falling under any sector set out in ● Article R. 321-1of the French InsuranceCode of all insuranceor reinsurancecompanies,of any corporateform, headquarteredin France or abroad; engaging in any activities involving outward reinsurance, ● retrocessionor compensationof the risksthat it reinsures; being the central body of the network of agricultural insurance ● and reinsurancecompanies(hereinafterthe “network”)within the meaningof Article L. 322-27-1of the French InsuranceCode. In this capacity, itis particularly responsible for: ensuring the cohesion and proper operationof the network, ● ensuring the application of the legislative and regulatory ● provisions relating to theorganisations within thenetwork, exercising administrative, technical and financial control over ● the organisationand managementof the organisationswithin the network, setting the strategic guidelines for the network, issuing any ● appropriateinstructionsin this regard and ensuringtheir actual implementation, also taking all necessary measures to ensure solvency and ● compliancewith the commitmentsof each of the organisations within thenetworkand of the entire Group; 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, financialservices andrelated 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.

PROVISIONS

Pursuant to Article 52of 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. 322-26-4and L. 322-27 of the French Insurance Code, and adopted the followingbylaws: being the central body of the network of agricultural insurance ● and reinsurancecompanies(hereinafterthe “network”)within the meaningof Article L. 322-27-1of the French InsuranceCode. In this capacity, itis particularly responsible for: ensuring the cohesion and proper operationof the network, ● ensuring the application of the legislative and regulatory ● provisions relating to theorganisations within thenetwork, exercising administrative, technical and financial control over ● the organisationand managementof the organisationswithin the network, setting the strategic guidelines for the network, issuing any ● appropriateinstructionsin this regard and ensuringtheir actual implementation, also taking all necessary measures to ensure solvency and ● compliancewith the commitmentsof each of the organisations within thenetworkand of the entire Group; 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, financialservices andrelated 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.

8.1.2.1

Form (Article 1)

Between the departmental or regional Agricultural Reinsurance Mutualssubscribingto these bylaws now or in the future, a national agriculturalreinsurancemutual, a special form of mutual insurance company governed by Articles L. 322-26-4and L 322-27 of the

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Universal Registration Document 2019 - GROUPAMA ASSURANCES MUTUELLES