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

CHAPTER VI U.K. GROUP SUPERVISORY REPORTING

SECTION 1 U.K. Regular reporting

Article 372 U.K. Elements and contents

1. Articles 304 to 311 of this Regulation shall apply to the information which participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies shall be required to submit to the group supervisor. Where all insurance and reinsurance undertakings in the group are exempted from quarterly reporting obligations in accordance with Article 35(6) of Directive 2009/138/EC, the group regular supervisory report shall include annual quantitative templates only. Annual reporting obligations shall not include reporting on an item-by-item basis where all undertakings in the group are exempted from it according to Article 35 (7) of that Directive.

2. The group regular supervisory report shall include all of the following additional information:

(a) regarding the group's business and performance:

(i)

a list of all subsidiaries, related undertakings and branches;

(ii)

a description of activities and sources of profits or losses for each material related undertaking within the meaning of Article 256a of Directive 2009/138/EC and for each significant branch within the meaning of Article 354(1) of this Regulation;

(iii)

a description of the contribution of each subsidiary to the achievement of the group strategy;

(iv)

qualitative and quantitative information on significant intra-group transactions by insurance and reinsurance undertakings with the group and the amount of the transactions over the reporting period and their outstanding balances at the end of the reporting period;

(b) regarding the group's system of governance:

(i)

a description of how the group internal control mechanism comply with the requirements set out in Article 246(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC;

(ii)

where applicable, information on the subsidiaries included in the own risk and solvency assessment as referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 246(4) of Directive 2009/138/EC;

(iii)

qualitative and quantitative information on material specific risks at group level;

(c) regarding the group's capital management:

(i)

qualitative and quantitative information on the Solvency Capital Requirement and own funds for each insurance and reinsurance undertaking within the group, in so far as it is included in the calculation of the group solvency;

(ii)

qualitative and quantitative information on the Solvency Capital Requirement and own funds for each intermediate insurance holding company, insurance holding company, intermediate mixed financial holding company, mixed financial holding company and ancillary services undertaking within the group, in so far as it is included in the calculation of the group solvency;

(iii)

qualitative and quantitative information on the solvency requirements and own funds for each related undertaking which is a credit institution, investment firm, financial institution, UCITS management company, alternative investment fund manager or institutions for occupational retirement provisions in so far as it is included in the calculation of the group solvency;

(iv)

qualitative and quantitative information on the notional solvency requirement and own funds for each related undertaking which is a non-regulated undertaking carrying out financial activities, in so far as it is included in the calculation of the group solvency;

(v)

qualitative and quantitative information on the solvency requirement and own funds for each related third-country insurance or reinsurance undertaking, in so far as it is included in the calculation of the group solvency; when method 2 within the meaning of Article 233 of Directive 2009/138/EC is used in the case of a related third country insurance or reinsurance undertaking that has its head office in a third country whose solvency regime is deemed to be equivalent pursuant to Article 227 of that Directive, the Solvency Capital Requirement and the own funds eligible to satisfy that requirement as laid down by the third country concerned shall be separately identified;

(vi)

qualitative and quantitative information on the solvency requirement and own funds for any other related undertaking, in so far as it is included in the calculation of the group solvency;

(vii)

a description of special purpose vehicles within the group which comply with the requirements set out in Article 211 of Directive 2009/138/EC;

(viii)

a description of special purpose vehicles within the group, which are regulated by a third country supervisory authority and comply with requirements equivalent to those set out in Article 211(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC, for the purposes ofincluding a description of the verification carried out by the participating insurance and reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company whether the requirements to which these special purpose vehicles are subject to in the third country are equivalent to those set out in Article 211(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC;

(ix)

a description of each special purpose entity within the group other than those referred to in points (vii) and (viii) together with qualitative and quantitative information on the solvency requirement and own funds of these entities, in so far as they are included in the calculation of the group solvency;

(x)

where relevant, for all related insurance and reinsurance undertakings which are included in the calculation of the group solvency, qualitative and quantitative information on how the undertaking complies with Article 222(2) to (5) of Directive 2009/138/EC;

(xi)

where relevant, qualitative and quantitative information on the own- fund items referred to in Article 222(3) of Directive 2009/138/EC that cannot effectively be made available to cover the Solvency Capital Requirement of the participating insurance or reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company for which the group solvency is calculated, including a description of how the adjustment to group own funds has been made;

(xii)

where relevant, qualitative information on the reasons for the classification of own-fund items referred to in Articles 332 and 333 of this Regulation.

Article 373 U.K. Deadlines

Article 312 of this Regulation shall apply to the submission by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies of their group regular supervisory reporting. For the purposes of this Article the deadlines referred to in Article 312 shall be extended by 6 weeks, except for the ORSA supervisory report.

Article 374 U.K. Languages

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 the participating insurance and reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company to report the group regular supervisory reporting in a language most commonly understood by the supervisory authorities concerned, as agreed in the college of supervisor.

Article 375 U.K. Additional transitional information on groups

1. In addition to the group supervisory reporting obligations of this chapter, as regards the first year of application of Directive 2009/138/EC as referred to in Article 311(3) of that Directive, Article 314(1) of this Regulation shall apply to participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies. For the purposes of this Article information referred to in Article 314(1) shall be submitted to the group supervisor.

[F1 2. Participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies shall submit to the group supervisor the information referred to in paragraph 1 no later than 26 weeks after the reference date of the opening financial statement as referred to in Article 314(1)(a).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/467 of 30 September 2015 amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35 concerning the calculation of regulatory capital requirements for several categories of assets held by insurance and reinsurance undertakings (Text with EEA relevance).

SECTION 2 U.K. Reporting on risk concentrations and intragroup transactions

Article 376 U.K. Significant risk concentrations (definition, identification and thresholds)

1. Participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies shall consider risk concentrations that could threaten the group solvency or liquidity position as significant risk concentrations.

2. For the purposes of identifying significant risk concentrations, participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies shall consider, at least, direct and indirect exposures of undertakings in the group to all of the following:

(a) individual counterparties;

(b) groups of individual but interconnected counterparties, for example undertakings within the same corporate group;

(c) specific geographical areas or industry sectors;

(d) natural disasters or catastrophes.

3. When determining appropriate thresholds in a particular group for significant risk concentrations to be reported, the group supervisor shall consider the following elements:

(a) the solvency and liquidity position of the group;

(b) the complexity of the structure of the group;

(c) the importance of regulated entities from other financial sectors or non-regulated entities carrying out financial activities;

(d) the diversification of the group's investments portfolio;

(e) the diversification of the group's insurance activities, in terms of geographical areas and lines of business.

Article 377 U.K. Significant intragroup transactions (definition, identification)

1. Participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies shall consider as significant intragroup transactions the intragroup transactions that materially influence the solvency or liquidity position of the group or of one of the undertakings involved in these transactions.

2. For the purposes of identifying significant intragroup transactions, participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies shall consider at least all of the following:

(a) investments;

(b) intercompany balances, including loans, receivables and arrangements to centralise the management of assets or cash;

(c) guarantees and commitments such as letters of credit;

(d) derivative transactions;

(e) dividends, coupons, and other interest payments;

(f) reinsurance operations;

(g) provision of services or agreements to share costs;

(h) purchase, sale or lease of assets.