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Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II) (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)
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TITLE I GENERAL RULES ON THE TAKING-UP AND PURSUIT OF DIRECT INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE ACTIVITIES
CHAPTER II Taking-up of business
Article 17.Legal form of the insurance or reinsurance undertaking
Article 20.Head office of insurance undertakings and reinsurance undertakings
Article 24.Shareholders and members with qualifying holdings
Article 25a. Notification and publication of authorisations or withdrawals of authorisation
Article 26.Prior consultation of the authorities of other Member States
CHAPTER IV Conditions governing business
Section 1 Responsibility of the administrative, management or supervisory body
Article 51.Report on solvency and financial condition: contents
Article 52. Information for and reports by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority
Article 53.Report on solvency and financial condition: applicable principles
Article 54.Report on solvency and financial condition: updates and additional voluntary information
Article 55.Report on solvency and financial condition: policy and approval
Article 56. Solvency and financial condition report: delegated acts and implementing technical standards
Section 5 Professional secrecy, exchange of information and promotion of supervisory convergence
Article 65.Exchange of information between supervisory authorities of Member States
Article 69.Disclosure of information to government administrations responsible for financial legislation
Article 70. Transmission of information to central banks, monetary authorities, payment systems overseers and the European Systemic Risk Board
Section 2 Rules relating to technical provisions
Article 77a. Extrapolation of the relevant risk-free interest rate term structure
Article 77b. Matching adjustment to the relevant risk-free interest rate term structure
Article 77d. Volatility adjustment to the relevant risk-free interest rate term structure
Article 77e. Technical information produced by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority
Article 77f. Review of long-term guarantees measures and measures on equity risk
Article 78.Other elements to be taken into account in the calculation of technical provisions
Article 79.Valuation of financial guarantees and contractual options included in insurance and reinsurance contracts
Article 81.Recoverables from reinsurance contracts and special purpose vehicles
Article 82.Data quality and application of approximations, including case-by-case approaches, for technical provisions
Article 84.Appropriateness of the level of technical provisions
Article 86. Delegated acts and regulatory and implementing technical standards
Section 4 Solvency capital requirement
Subsection 2 Solvency capital requirement standard formula
Article 104.Design of the Basic Solvency Capital Requirement
Article 105.Calculation of the Basic Solvency Capital Requirement
Article 106.Calculation of the equity risk sub-module: symmetric adjustment mechanism
Article 108.Adjustment for the loss-absorbing capacity of technical provisions and deferred taxes
Article 109a. Harmonised technical inputs to standard formula
Article 110.Significant deviations from the assumptions underlying the standard formula calculation
Article 111. Delegated acts and regulatory and implementing technical standards concerning Articles 103 to 109
Subsection 3 Solvency capital requirement full and partial internal models
Article 112.General provisions for the approval of full and partial internal models
Article 113.Specific provisions for the approval of partial internal models
Article 114. Delegated acts and implementing technical standards concerning the Solvency Capital Requirement internal models
Article 115.Policy for changing the full and partial internal models
Article 116.Responsibilities of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies
Article 119.Significant deviations from the assumptions underlying the standard formula calculation
CHAPTER VII Insurance and reinsurance undertakings in difficulty or in an irregular situation
Article 136.Identification and notification of deteriorating financial conditions by the insurance and reinsurance undertaking
Article 138.Non-Compliance with the Solvency Capital Requirement
Article 139.Non-Compliance with the Minimum Capital Requirement
Article 140.Prohibition of free disposal of assets located within the territory of a Member State
Article 141.Supervisory powers in deteriorating financial conditions
Article 143. Delegated acts and regulatory technical standards concerning Article 138(4)
CHAPTER VIII Right of establishment and freedom to provide services
Section 1 Taking-up of business
Article 166.Solvency Capital Requirement and Minimum Capital Requirement
Article 167.Advantages to undertakings authorised in more than one Member State
Article 168.Accounting, prudential and statistical information and undertakings in difficulty
Article 170.Withdrawal of authorisation for undertakings authorised in more than one Member State
TITLE II SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE
CHAPTER I Applicable law and conditions of direct insurance contracts
TITLE III SUPERVISION OF INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE UNDERTAKINGS IN A GROUP
CHAPTER I Group supervision: definitions, cases of application, scope and levels
Subsection 2 Choice of calculation method and general principles
Subsection 6 Supervision of group solvency for groups with centralised risk management
Article 236.Subsidiaries of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking: conditions
Article 237. Subsidiaries of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking: decision on the application
Article 238.Subsidiaries of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking: determination of the Solvency Capital Requirement
Article 239.Subsidiaries of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking: non-compliance with the Solvency and Minimum Capital Requirements
Article 240.Subsidiaries of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking: end of derogations for a subsidiary
Article 241. Subsidiaries of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking: delegated acts
Article 243. Subsidiaries of an insurance holding company and mixed financial holding company
CHAPTER III Measures to facilitate group supervision
Article 248.Rights and duties of the group supervisor and the other supervisors College of supervisors
Article 249.Cooperation and exchange of information between supervisory authorities
Article 251.Requests from the group supervisor to other supervisory authorities
Article 252.Cooperation with authorities responsible for credit institutions and investment firms
Article 257. Administrative, management or supervisory body of insurance holding companies and mixed financial holding companies
Article 260. Parent undertakings outside the Union: verification of equivalence
Article 261.Parent undertakings outside the Community: equivalence
Article 262. Parent undertakings registered in a third country: absence of equivalence
Article 263.Parent undertakings outside the Community: levels
Article 264.Cooperation with third-country supervisory authorities
TITLE IV REORGANISATION AND WINDING-UP OF INSURANCE UNDERTAKINGS
A. Classification of risks according to classes of insurance
B. Description of authorisations granted for more than one class of...
GROUPS OF NON-LIFE INSURANCE CLASSES FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 159
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