CHAPTER IGENERAL PROVISIONS AND SUPERVISORY REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

Article 1Subject matter

This Regulation lays down implementing technical standards on regular supervisory reporting by establishing the templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities referred to in Article 35(1) and (2) of Directive 2009/138/EC for individual insurance and reinsurance undertakings and in Article 244(2) and Article 245(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC for groups.

Article 2Supervisory reporting formats

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings, participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies and mixed financial holding companies shall submit the information referred to in this Regulation in the data exchange formats and representations determined by the supervisory authorities or by the group supervisor and in accordance with the following specifications:

  1. (a)

    data points with the data type ‘monetary’ shall be expressed in units with no decimals with the exception of templates S.06.02, S.08.01, S.08.02 and S.11.01, which shall be expressed in units with two decimals;

  2. (b)

    data points with the data type ‘percentage’ shall be expressed as per unit with four decimals;

  3. (c)

    data points with the data type ‘integer’ shall be expressed in units with no decimalsF1;

  4. (d)

    F2all data points shall be expressed as positive values except in the following cases:

    1. (i)

      they are of an opposite nature from the natural amount of the item;

    2. (ii)

      the nature of the data point allows for positive and negative values to be reported;

    3. (iii)

      a different reporting format is required by the respective instructions set out in the Annexes.

Article 3Currency

1

For the purposes of this Regulation ‘reporting currency’, unless otherwise required by the supervisory authority, shall be:

a

for individual reporting, the currency used for the preparation of the insurance or reinsurance undertaking's financial statements;

b

for group reporting, the currency used for the preparation of the consolidated financial statements.

2

Data points with the data type ‘monetary’ shall be reported in the reporting currency, which requires the conversion of any other currency into the reporting currency unless otherwise stated in this Regulation.

3

When expressing the value of any asset or liability denominated in a currency other than the reporting currency, the value shall be converted into the reporting currency as if the conversion had taken place at the closing rate on the last day for which the appropriate rate is available in the reporting period to which the asset or liability relates.

4

When expressing the value of any income or expense, the value shall be converted into the reporting currency using such basis of conversion as that used for accounting purposes.

F24a

When expressing the values of historical data denominated in a currency other than the reporting currency, such values related to previous reporting periods shall be converted into the reporting currency based on the closing rate on the last day of the period being reported for which the conversion rate is available.

5

The conversion into the reporting currency shall be calculated by applying the exchange rate from the same source as that used for the insurance or reinsurance undertaking's financial statements in the case of individual reporting or for the consolidated financial statements in the case of group reporting, unless otherwise required by the supervisory authority.

Article 4Re-submission of data

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings, participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies and mixed financial holding companies shall re-submit as soon as practicable the information reported using the templates referred to in this Regulation when the information originally reported has materially changed in relation to the same reporting period after the last submission to the supervisory authorities or to the group supervisor.