- CNA
- Conseil National des Assurances. The national insurance advisory body responsible for sector policy, market data collection and industry dialogue, under the authority of the Ministry of Finance. Publishes market statistics.
- CSA
- Commission de Supervision des Assurances. Algeria's insurance supervisory commission. It monitors compliance with insurance and reinsurance rules, the regularity of operations, insurer solvency and the protection of policyholders and beneficiaries.
- Ordonnance No. 95-07
- The Insurance Ordinance (1995). The foundational legislation that ended the state monopoly and liberalised the market, amended by Law No. 06-04 (2006).
- PCA (Plan Comptable des Assurances)
- The insurance-specific chart of accounts in Algeria. Defines account structures and technical reserves from which CNA statistical reporting is derived.
- ORASS
- An insurance management solution used by some Algerian insurers. Integration, coexistence and data-migration requirements vary according to each implementation and the interfaces available.
- ASSI
- Agence de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information. The public agency responsible for coordinating implementation of Algeria's national information-systems security strategy (Presidential Decree 20-05, 2020).
- E-Recours
- An electronic inter-insurer recovery platform for motor claims that digitalises exchanges between companies, launched in 2022 under the Algerian insurers union (UAR).
- ANCE
- Autorité Nationale de Certification Electronique. Governs legally valid electronic signatures and digital certificates used for the issuance of electronic contracts.
- SATIM
- Société d'Automatisation des Transactions Interbancaires et de Monétique. Algeria's interbank electronic payment operator, which manages the CIB card network.
- CIB
- Carte Interbancaire. The domestic card network operated by SATIM, accepted for in-branch, terminal and online payments.
- CNAS
- Caisse Nationale des Assurances Sociales des Travailleurs Salariés. The social security fund for salaried employees, covering health, maternity, disability and retirement.
- CASNOS
- Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale des Non-Salariés. The social security fund for self-employed workers and business owners.
- Takaful
- Cooperative insurance based on mutual assistance and risk-sharing, formalised in Algeria by Executive Decree No. 21-81 (2021) and supervised by a Sharia supervisory board.
- IFRS 17
- International Financial Reporting Standard for insurance contracts, mandatory internationally from 2023. Not yet required in Algeria; early preparation can ease future adoption.
- CCR
- Compagnie Centrale de Réassurance. Algeria's public national reinsurer, which receives a legal share of domestic reinsurance cessions (Executive Decree 95-409) and manages mandatory natural-catastrophe cessions.