EIOPA · 1561

1561

Regulation
Risk-Free Interest Rate - General questions
Article
43
Submitted
2018-06-26
Answered
2019-10-24

Question

I have a few of questions regarding the implementation of the ultimate forward rate (UFR). (1) Q: Does the European Commission or Parliament have to adopt and publish an Implementing Act that approves of the methodology proposed by EIOPA, or is EIOPA’s proposal legally binding? (2) Q: Does the European Commission or Parliament have to adopt and publish an Implementing Act that formalises the 4.05% for 2018? In other words: is the 4.05% legally binding for 2018? (3) Q: If Implementing Acts are required, is there a fixed timeline for (when) these Implementing Acts to be published? E.g. the first day after a calendar quarter?

Answer

As the question is of legal nature, we asked the European Commission to provide response with the following result:The answer to all questions is no. Please refer to article 77e(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC (Solvency II).

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