Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35Show full title

SECTION 1 U.K. Group solvency and financial condition report

Article 359 U.K. Structure and contents

Articles 290 to 298 of this Regulation shall apply to the group solvency and financial condition report which participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies are required to disclose publicly. In addition, the group solvency and financial condition report shall include all of the following information:

(a)

regarding the group's business and performance:

(i)

a description of the legal structure and the governance and organisational structure of the group, with a description of all subsidiaries, material related undertakings within the meaning of Article 256a of Directive 2009/138/EC and significant branches within the meaning of Article 354(1) of this Regulation;

(ii)

qualitative and quantitative information on relevant operations and transactions within the group;

(b)

regarding the group's system of governance:

(i)

a description of how the risk management and internal control systems and reporting procedures are implemented consistently in all the undertakings within the scope of group supervision, as required by Article 246 of Directive 2009/138/EC;

(ii)

where applicable, a statement that the participating insurance or reinsurance undertaking, the insurance holding company or the mixed financial holding company has made use of the option provided for in the third subparagraph of Article 246(4) of Directive 2009/138/EC;

(iii)

information on any material intra-group outsourcing arrangements;

(c)

regarding the group's risk profile: qualitative and quantitative information on any significant risk concentration at the level of the group, as referred to in Article 376 of this Regulation;

(d)

regarding the group's valuation for solvency purposes: where the bases, methods and main assumptions used at group level for the valuation for solvency purposes of the group's assets, technical provisions and other liabilities differ materially from those used by any of its subsidiaries for the valuation for solvency purposes of its assets, technical provisions and other liabilities, a quantitative and qualitative explanation of any material differences;

(e)

regarding the group's capital management:

(i)

whether method 1 or method 2, as referred to in Articles 230 and 233 of Directive 2009/138/EC, is used to calculate the group solvency and where a combination of method 1 and 2 is used for which related undertakings method 2 is used;

(ii)

qualitative and quantitative information on any significant restriction to the fungibility and transferability of own funds eligible for covering the group Solvency Capital Requirement;

(iii)

where method 1 is used to calculate the group solvency, the amount of the consolidated group Solvency Capital Requirement, with separate indication of the amounts referred to in Article 336 of this Regulation;

(iv)

qualitative and quantitative information on the material sources of group diversification effects;

(v)

where applicable, the sum of amounts referred to in points (a) and (b) of the second subparagraph of Article 230(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC;

(vi)

where applicable, a description of the undertakings which are in the scope of any internal model used to calculate the group Solvency Capital Requirement;

(vii)

a description of the main differences, if any, between any internal model used at individual undertaking level and any internal model used to calculate the group Solvency Capital Requirement.

Article 360 U.K. Languages

1. Participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies shall disclose their group solvency and financial condition report in the language or languages determined by the group supervisor.

2. Where the college of supervisors comprises supervisory authorities from more than one Member State, the group supervisor may, after consultation with the other supervisory authorities concerned and the group itself, require participating insurance and reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company to also disclose the report referred to in paragraph 1 in another language most commonly understood by the other supervisory authorities concerned, as agreed in the college of supervisors.

3. Where any of the insurance or reinsurance subsidiaries of the participating insurance or reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company has its head office in a Member State whose official language or languages are different from the language or languages in which the group solvency and financial condition report is disclosed by application of paragraphs 1 and 2, the participating insurance and reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company shall disclose a translation of the summary of that report into the official language or languages of that Member State.

Article 361 U.K. Non-disclosure of information

Article 299 shall apply to non-disclosure of information in the group solvency and financial condition report by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies.

Article 362 U.K. Deadlines

Article 300 shall apply to the disclosure by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies of their group solvency and financial condition report. For the purposes of this Article the deadlines referred to in Article 300 shall be extended by 6 weeks.

Article 363 U.K. Updates

1. Where participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies have to disclose publicly, appropriate information on the nature and effects of any major development that materially affect the relevance of their group solvency and financial condition report, they shall provide an updated version of that report. Articles 359, 360 and 361 of this Regulation shall apply to that updated version.

2. Without prejudice to the requirements for immediate disclosure set out in Article 54(1) of Directive 2009/138/EC, any updated version of the group solvency and financial condition report shall be disclosed as soon as possible after the major development referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.

Article 364 U.K. Transitional arrangements on comparative information

Article 303 shall apply to the disclosure of comparative information by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies.