SECTION 3 U.K. Solvency and financial condition report: deadlines, means of disclosure and updates
Article 300U.K.Deadlines
1.Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall disclose their solvency and financial condition report within the deadlines set out in Article 308b(6) of Directive 2009/138/EC and, after the end of the transitional period set out in that Article, no later than 14 weeks after the undertaking's financial year end.
2.As soon as the solvency and financial condition report, as well as any updated version of that report, is disclosed by insurance and reinsurance undertakings it shall be submitted to the supervisory authorities.
Article 301U.K.Means of disclosure
1.Where insurance and reinsurance undertakings own and maintain a website related to their business, the solvency and financial condition report shall be disclosed on that website.
2.Where insurance and reinsurance undertakings do not own and maintain a website but are a member of a trade association which does own and maintain a website, the solvency and financial condition report shall, where permitted by that trade association, be disclosed on the website of that association.
3.Where insurance and reinsurance undertakings disclose their solvency and financial condition report on a website in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2, that report shall remain available on that website for at least five years after the disclosure date referred to in Article 300(1).
4.Where insurance and reinsurance undertakings do not disclose their solvency and financial condition report on a website in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2, they shall send an electronic copy of their report to any person who, within five years of the disclosure date referred to in Article 300(1) requests the report. Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall send the report within 10 working days from that request.
5.Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall, irrespective of whether the undertaking's report has been made available on a website in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2, send, to any person who so requests within two years of the disclosure date referred to in Article 300(1), a printed copy of their report within 20 working days from that request.
6.Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall submit to the supervisory authorities their solvency and financial condition report, and any updated version of that report thereto, in electronic form.
Article 302U.K.Updates
1.Where insurance and reinsurance undertakings have to disclose publicly, in accordance with Article 54(1) of Directive 2009/138/EC, appropriate information on the nature and effects of any major development significantly affecting the relevance of their solvency and financial condition report, the undertaking shall publish an updated version of that report in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article. Articles 290 to 299 of this Regulation shall apply to that updated version.
2.Without prejudice to any disclosure which shall be immediately provided by insurance and reinsurance undertakings in accordance with the requirements of Article 54(1) of Directive 2009/138/EC, any updated version of the solvency and financial condition report shall be disclosed as soon as possible after the major development referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, in accordance with the provisions set out in Article 301 of this Regulation.
3.Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 and 2, insurance and reinsurance undertakings may decide, for the purposes of paragraph 5 of Article 301, to disclose appropriate information on the nature and effects of any major development significantly affecting the relevance of their solvency and financial condition report in the form of amendments supplementing the initial report.
Article 303U.K.Transitional arrangements on comparative information
Where a comparison of the information with that reported on the previous reporting period is required in accordance with this Chapter, insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall comply with such a requirement only where the previous reporting period covers a period after the date of application of Directive 2009/138/EC.