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Consultation Paper No. 60
Draft CEIOPS’ Advice for Level 2 Implementing Measures on Solvency II: Assessment of Group Solvency


ANNEX 1 ON ELIGIBILITY OF OWN FUNDS
Example on the treatment of minority interests

• A holding owns 100% of A and 80% of B
o No debt in the holding
o Value of A = own funds of A
o Value of B = own funds of B


ANNEX 2 ON ELIGIBILITY OF OWN FUNDS
Steps of the calculations of group available own funds


ANNEX 3: extracts of the consolidated accounts directive 83/349/EEC

Article 1
1. A Member State shall require any undertaking governed by its national law to draw up consolidated accounts and a consolidated annual report if that undertaking (a parent undertaking):

(a) has a majority of the shareholders' or members' voting rights in another undertaking (a subsidiary undertaking); or

(b) has the right to appoint or remove a majority of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory body of another undertaking (a subsidiary undertaking) and is at the same time a shareholder in or member of that undertaking; or

(c) has the right to exercise a dominant influence over an undertaking (a subsidiary undertaking) of which it is a shareholder or member, pursuant to a contract entered into with that undertaking or to a provision in its memorandum or articles of association, where the law governing that subsidiary undertaking permits its being subject to such contracts or provisions.

A Member State need not prescribe that a parent undertaking must be a shareholder in or member of its subsidiary undertaking.
Those Member States the laws of which do not provide for each contracts or clauses shall not be required to apply this provision; or
 
(d) is a shareholder in or member of an undertaking, and:
 
(aa) a majority of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of that undertaking (a subsidiary undertaking) who have held office during the financial year, during the preceding financial year and up to the time when the consolidated accounts are drawn up, have been appointed solely as a result of the exercise of its voting rights; or

(bb) controls alone, pursuant to an agreement with other shareholders in or members of that undertaking (a subsidiary undertaking), a majority of shareholders' or members' voting rights in that undertaking.
 
The Member States may introduce more detailed provisions concerning the form and contents of such agreements.

The Member States shall prescribe at least the arrangements referred to in (bb) above.

They may make the application of (aa) above dependent upon the holding's representing 20 % or more of the shareholders' or members' voting rights. However, (aa) above shall not apply where another undertaking has the rights referred to in subparagraphs (a), (b) or (c) above with regard to that subsidiary undertaking.

2. Apart from the cases mentioned in paragraph 1 the Member States may require any undertaking governed by their national law to draw up consolidated accounts and a consolidated annual report if:

(a) that undertaking (a parent undertaking) has the power to exercise, or actually exercises, dominant influence or control over another undertaking (the subsidiary undertaking); or

(b) that undertaking (a parent undertaking) and another undertaking (the subsidiary undertaking) are managed on a unified basis by the parent undertaking.

Article 12
1. Without prejudice to Articles1 to 10, a Member State may require any undertaking governed by its national law to draw up consolidated accounts and a consolidated annual report if:

(a) that undertaking and one or more other undertakings with which it is not connected, as described in Article 1 (1) or (2), are managed on a unified basis pursuant to a contract concluded with that undertaking or provisions in the memorandum or articles of association of those undertakings; or

(b) the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of that undertaking and of one or more other undertakings with which it is not connected, as described in Article 1 (1) or (2), consist for the major part of the same persons in office during the financial year and until the consolidated accounts are drawn up.
 


ANNEX 4: GLOSSARY

“participating undertaking” means an undertaking which is

• either a parent undertaking or other undertaking which holds a participation

• or an undertaking linked with another undertaking by a relationship as set out in Article 12(1) of Directive 83/349/EEC .

“parent undertaking” means a parent undertaking within the meaning of Article 1 of Council Directive 83/349/EEC29; (article 13 (12)).

“related undertaking” means :

• either a subsidiary undertaking or other undertaking in which a participation is held,

• or an undertaking linked with another undertaking by a relationship as set out in Article 12(1) of Directive 83/349/EEC.

“subsidiary undertaking” means any subsidiary undertaking within the meaning of Article 1 of Directive 83/349/EEC, including subsidiaries thereof (article 13 (13)).
 


ANNEX 5: proposed treatment of participations under Solvency II


Consultation Paper No. 60
Draft CEIOPS’ Advice for Level 2 Implementing Measures on Solvency II: Assessment of Group Solvency


1. Assessment of Group Solvency - Introduction

2. Level 1 Text

3. Advice from CEIOPS

4. Third Countries

5. Calculation Method

6. Fungibility and Transferability

7. Transferability of Own Funds

8. Calculations

9. Annex 1 to Annex 5

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