to require the institution, the members of its board of directors and other managers or directors or persons controlling the institution to supply information about all business matters or forward all business documents;

to supervise relationships between the institution and other companies or between institutions, when institutions transfer functions to those other companies or institutions (outsourcing), influencing the financial situation of the institution or being in a material way relevant for effective supervision;

to obtain regularly the statement of investment-policy principles, the annual accounts and the annual reports, and all the documents necessary for the purposes of supervision. These may include documents such as:

1. (i)

   internal interim reports;

2. (ii)

   actuarial valuations and detailed assumptions;

3. (iii)

   asset-liability studies;

4. (iv)

   evidence of consistency with the investment-policy principles;

5. (v)

   evidence that contributions have been paid in as planned;

6. (vi)

   reports by the persons responsible for auditing the annual accounts referred to in Article 10;

to carry out on-site inspections at the institution's premises and, where appropriate, on outsourced functions to check if activities are carried out in accordance with the supervisory rules.