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

SECTION 2 Single solvency and financial condition report

Article 365 Structure and contents

1. Where participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies provide a single solvency and financial condition report, the requirements set out in this Section shall apply.

2. The single solvency and financial condition report shall present separately the information which must be disclosed at group level in accordance with Article 256(1) of Directive 2009/138/EC and the information which must be disclosed in accordance with Articles 51, 53, 54 and 55 of that Directive for any subsidiary covered by that report.

3. The information at group level and the information for any subsidiary covered by that report shall each follow the structure set out in Annex XX. Participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies may decide, when providing any part of the information to be disclosed for a subsidiary covered, to refer to information at group level, where that information is equivalent in both nature and scope.

Article 366 Languages

1. Participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies shall disclose their single 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 consultating 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 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 subsidiaries covered by the single solvency and financial condition report has its head office in a Member State whose official language or languages are different from the language or languages in which that report is disclosed in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2, the supervisory authority concerned may, after consulting the group supervisor and the group itself, require the participating insurance and reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company to include in that report a translation of the information related to that subsidiary into an official language of that Member State. The participating insurance and reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company shall disclose a translation into the official language or languages of that Member State of all of the following information:

(a) the summary of the information from that report related to the group;

(b) the information from that report related to that subsidiary, unless exemption has been granted by the supervisory authority concerned.

Article 367 Non-disclosure of information

1. Article 361 shall apply as regards the information at the level of the group.

2. Article 299 shall apply as regards the information for any of the subsidiaries within the group.

Article 368 Deadlines

Article 300 of this Regulation shall apply to the deadlines for disclosure by participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies of their single solvency and financial condition report. For the purposes of this Article the deadlines referred to in Article 300 shall be extended by 6 weeks only during a period not exceeding four years from 1 January 2016.

Article 369 Updates

1. Where participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies have to disclose publicly information on the nature and effects of any major development that materially affect the relevance of their single solvency and financial condition report, they shall provide an updated version of that report. Articles 365, 366 and 367 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 single 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 370 Reference

1. Where participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies provide a single solvency and financial condition report in respect of some of their subsidiaries only, all of the following obligations shall apply:

(a) the other insurance and reinsurance undertakings which are subsidiaries of that participating insurance or reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company shall include in their solvency and financial condition report a reference to the single solvency and financial condition report disclosed;

(b) the single solvency and financial condition reports disclosed in accordance with Article 256(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC shall equally include a reference to the solvency and financial condition report of those other insurance and reinsurance undertakings.

2. Where participating insurance and reinsurance undertakings, insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies do not provide a single solvency and financial condition report, the insurance and reinsurance undertakings which are subsidiaries of that participating insurance or reinsurance undertaking, insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company shall include in their solvency and financial condition report a reference to the group solvency and financial condition reports disclosed in accordance with Article 256(1) of Directive 2009/138/EC.

Article 371 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.