The Solvency 2 and Insurance (Amendment, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

15.  Providing for—

(a) a standard formula, in order to calculate the Solvency Capital Requirement;

(b) the design of the Basic Solvency Capital Requirement and risk modules, including but not limited to non-life underwriting risk, life underwriting risk, health underwriting risk, market risk, counterparty default risk(1);

(c) the methods, assumptions and standard parameters to be calibrated to the confidence level referred to in Article 101(3) of the Solvency 2 Directive and to be used when calculating each of the risk modules or sub-modules of the basic Solvency Capital Requirement, the symmetric adjustment mechanism and the appropriate period of time, expressed in the number of months, and the appropriate approach for integrating a duration-based equity risk sub-module referred to in Article 304 of the Solvency 2 Directive (reading references in that Article to “Member States” as including the United Kingdom) in the Solvency Capital Requirement as calculated in accordance with the standard formula;

(d) the correlation parameters and the procedures for updating those parameters(2);

(e) where insurance and reinsurance undertakings use risk-mitigation techniques, the methods and assumptions to be used to assess the changes in the risk profile of the undertaking concerned and to adjust the calculation of the Solvency Capital Requirement;

(f) the qualitative criteria that the risk-mitigation techniques referred to in point (e) must fulfil in order to ensure that the risk has been effectively transferred to a third party(3).

(1)

Article 104 of the Solvency 2 Directive.

(2)

Annex IV of the Solvency 2 Directive.

(3)

Article 111(1)(a) to (f) of the Solvency 2 Directive.