The harmonised disclosure requirements on quantitative information included in the solvency and financial condition report should be assured by the application of a prescribed set of disclosure templates, which allow for an improved understanding of the information being disclosed to the public, especially for comparison across time and across different undertakings. The application of templates should also assure the equal treatment of insurance and reinsurance undertakings and should improve the understanding of disclosures performed by groups.

When insurance and reinsurance undertakings, participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies are authorised to publish a single solvency and financial condition report they should disclose separately, as part of their report, the information specified in this Regulation for individual undertakings for each insurance and reinsurance subsidiary covered by that report and the information prescribed for groups.

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings and groups should only disclose the information applicable for their business. For example, certain options provided for by Directive 2009/138/EC, like the use of the matching adjustment for the calculation of the technical provisions or the use of a full or partial internal model or of underwriting-specific parameters for the calculation of the solvency capital requirement, affect the scope of the information to be disclosed. In most cases, only a subset of the templates provided for in this Regulation should be disclosed, as not all the templates are applicable for all undertakings.

The provisions in this Regulation are closely linked to each other, since they deal with the procedures and templates for the disclosure of the solvency and financial condition report. To ensure coherence between those provisions, which should enter into force at the same time, and to facilitate a comprehensive view and access to them by persons subject to those obligations, including investors that are non-Union residents, it is desirable to include all the implementing technical standards required by Article 56 and 256(5) of Directive 2009/138/EC in a single Regulation.

This Regulation is based on the draft implementing technical standards submitted by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority to the Commission.