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All regulations Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) Directive 2011/61/EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) - Regulation 2016/1011 Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) Regulation (EU) No 909/2014- PTR- CSDR Credit Rating Agencies Regulation (CRAR) Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 Directive 2002/87/EC (FiCOD) Directive 2009/110/EC (EMD) Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD) Directive 2014/17/EU (MCD) Directive 2014/49/EU (DGSD) Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD) Directive 2014/65/EU - Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) Directive 2014/92/EU (PAD) Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) Directive 2022/2556/EU (DORA Dir) Directive (EU) 2015/849 (AMLD) Directive (EU) 2019/2034 (IFD) EIOPA-BoS/18-114 - Information request towards NCAs regarding provision of occupational pensions information EIOPA-BoS-23-030 - Regular information requests regarding provision of occupational pensions information EMIR ESGR - Regulation (EU) 2024/3005 (EU) 2016/2341 - IORP II Directive (EU) 2016/2341 - IORP II Directive, (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive (EU) 2016/2341 - IORP II Directive, Other (EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document (EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document, (EU) No 1286/2014 - PRIIPs Regulation (EU) 2019/1238 - Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) (EU) 2019/1238 - Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP), (EU) 2022/2454 - ITS with regard to supervisory reporting of risk concentrations and intra-group transactions (FICOD, (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, EIOPA-BoS-23-030 - Regular information requests regarding provision of occupational pensions information (EU) 2019/2088 - SFDR (EU) 2020/852 - Taxonomy Regulation (EU) 2022/2454 - ITS with regard to supervisory reporting of risk concentrations and intra-group transactions (FICOD (EU) 2022/2454 - ITS with regard to supervisory reporting of risk concentrations and intra-group transactions (FICOD, (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision (EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, (EU) 2023/895 - ITS for the disclosure of solvency and financial condition report (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, Other (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, Revised Guidelines on Contract Boundaries, Guidelines on contract boundaries (EU) 2023/895 - ITS for the disclosure of solvency and financial condition report EU Green Bond Regulation (EU) 2023/2361 (EU) No 1286/2014 - PRIIPs Regulation (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/2011 - lists of regional governments & local authorities, exposures to be treated as to central government (EU) No 2015/2013 - standard deviations in relation to health risk equalisation systems (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities, Guidelines on reporting and public disclosure (EU) No 2015/2451 - templates and structure of the disclosure of specific information by supervisory authorities (EU) No 2015/2451 - templates and structure of the disclosure of specific information by supervisory authorities, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/2452 - procedures, formats and templates of the solvency and financial condition report (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2015/2011 - lists of regional governments & local authorities, exposures to be treated as to central government (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on application of outwards reinsurance (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on contract boundaries (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on group solvency (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on implementation of the long-term guarantee measures (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on look-through approach (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on methodology for equivalence assessments by national supervisory authorities under Solvency II (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on recognition and valuation of assets and liabilities other than technical provisions (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Other (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Risk-Free Interest Rate - General questions (EU) No 2016/1800 - allocation of Credit Assessments of external CA institutions to objective scale of credit quality steps (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2017/1469 - standardised presentation format for the insurance product information document (EU) No 2017/1469 - standardised presentation format for the insurance product information document, Guidelines on classification of own funds (EU) No 2017/2358 - product oversight and governance requirements for insurance (EU) No 2017/2358 - product oversight and governance requirements for insurance, (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive (EU) No 2017/2358 - product oversight and governance requirements for insurance, Preparatory Guidelines on product oversight & governance arrangements by insurance undertakings & insurance distributors, (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive (EU) No 2017/2359 - info requirements and conduct of business rules applicable European Long-Term Investment Funds Regulation (ELTIF) Regulation (EU) 2015/760 European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) Regulation (EU) No 648/2012- MDP European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) Regulation (EU) No 648/2012- PTR- Derivatives European Social Entrepreneurship Funds Regulation (EuSEF) Regulation (EU) No 346/2013 European Venture Capital Regulation (EuVECA) Regulation (EU) No 345/2013 Guidelines on application of life underwriting risk module Guidelines on application of outwards reinsurance Guidelines on basis risk Guidelines on classification of own funds Guidelines on classification of own funds, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) Guidelines on contract boundaries Guidelines on financial stability reporting Guidelines on financial stability reporting, Guidelines on reporting for financial stability purposes Guidelines on group solvency Guidelines on health catastrophe risk sub-module Guidelines on look-through approach Guidelines on loss-absorbing capacity of technical provisions and deferred taxes Guidelines on own risk and solvency assessment Guidelines on recognition and valuation of assets and liabilities other than technical provisions Guidelines on reporting and public disclosure Guidelines on reporting for financial stability purposes Guidelines on ring-fenced funds Guidelines on submission of information to NCAs (Preparatory phase) Guidelines on supervision of branches of third-country insurance undertakings Guidelines on supervisory review process Guidelines on system of governance Guidelines on the Forward looking assessment of own risks Guidelines on treatment of related undertakings, including participations Guidelines on use of internal models Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 - Market Intergrity Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Investor Protection and Intermediaries Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- MDP Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 - Investor Protection and Intermediaries Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- Secondary Markets MiCA Other Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation (PRIIPS) Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 PRIIPs Prospectus Regulation 2017/1129 Regulation 2020/1503 - European crowdfunding service providers for business Regulation 2021/23 - recovery and resolution of central counterparties (CCPRRR) Regulation 648/2012 - OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (EMIR) - CCPs Regulation (EU) 2015/847 (WTR) (recast) Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 - Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 - The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Regulation (EU) 2022/858 - DLT Pilot Regime Regulation (DLTR) Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 (WTR II) Regulation (EU) 2024/886 (IPR) Regulation (EU) No 2017/2402 (SecReg) Regulation (EU) No 2019/2033 (IFR) Regulation (EU) No 2022/2554 (DORA Reg) Regulation (EU) No 2023/1114 (MiCAR) Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (EMIR) Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 (CSDR) - only RTS 2017/390 Revised Guidelines on Contract Boundaries Revised Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions Revised Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions, (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) Revised Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions, (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) Risk-Free Interest Rate - Credit and currency adjustments Risk-Free Interest Rate - Deep, Liquid and Transparent maturities Risk-Free Interest Rate - Extrapolation Risk-Free Interest Rate - Extrapolation, Risk-Free Interest Rate - Financial market data Risk-Free Interest Rate - Extrapolation, Risk-Free Interest Rate - General questions, Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA calculations Risk-Free Interest Rate - Financial market data Risk-Free Interest Rate - General questions Risk-Free Interest Rate - Matching adjustment Risk-Free Interest Rate - Matching adjustment, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA calculations Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA calculations, Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA representative portfolios Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA representative portfolios Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) Regulation (EU) 2015/2365- MDP Securitisation Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 SFDR Short Selling Regulation (SSR) Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 Symmetric adjustment of the equity capital charge Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS) Directive 2009/65/EC
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Technical Provisions (TPs), Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR)
Revised Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions, (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) · Art. 36 of DR 2015/35
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-29
Other DORA topics
(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-29
ICT-related incidents (DORA)
(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. Art.22
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-29
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision · Art. ANNEX VI Definitions of the CIC Table
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-20
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-20
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-20
Reporting Templates, Risk concentration, Group Solvency Requirement
(EU) 2023/895 - ITS for the disclosure of solvency and financial condition report
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-20
Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR)
(EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) · Art. 121 to 125
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-20
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/895 - ITS for the disclosure of solvency and financial condition report
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-20
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-20
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-19
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision · Art. Annex II
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-19
Size Thresholds for Self-Managed AIFs and UCITS
Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 - The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. Article 3 of the DORA Regulation points (60), (63) and (64)
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2024-08-12
Technical Provisions (TPs)
(EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) · Art. 28
EIOPA
Answered 2024-08-06
List of IEA Sectors in Column a vs List of IEA Sectors in the EBA3.3 Annotated Table Layout for ESG
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 449a
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-07-26
Template 5 - Reporting of gross carrying amount of exposures sensitive to chronic, acute, chronic and acute climate change events
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 449a
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-07-26
Template 9.1 – Mitigating actions: Assets for the calculation of BTAR
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 449a
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-07-26
a) In situations where financial market participants delegate management, is the
application of the definition of "sustainable investment" in Article 2, point (17) SFDR an
exclusive prerogative of the
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
With regard to how a financial market participant (e.g. a UCITS management company)
discloses PAI indicator 1 in Table 1 of Annex I of the SFDR Delegated Regulation in
relation to its financial produc
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
Should PAI indicator 6 in Table 1 of Annex I of the SFDR Delegated Regulation ("Energy
consumption intensity per high impact climate sector") be disclosed on an aggregated
basis (i.e. each high impact
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
Should PAI indicator 4 in Table 1, Annex I of the SFDR Delegated Regulation ("Exposure
to companies active in the fossil fuel sector") be calculated on a look-through (i.e. share
of fossil fuel activi
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
How should values in currencies other than EUR be converted to EUR? E.g. at the point
of reporting, the point of the impact or an average value in EUR of values in currencies
converted to EUR at diffe
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
In line with SFDR Delegated Regulation and the SFDR Q&As (JC 2023 18), a UCITS
management company disclosing its UCITS under Article 9 SFDR may next to
"sustainable investments" (i.e. in the "remainin
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
What information should financial market participants disclose about financial products
passively tracking a PAB or CTB?
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
Following the answer to Q&A V.9, where financial products are passively tracking Paris
Aligned Benchmarks (PABs) and Climate Transition Benchmarks (CTBs), it can be
considered they do not fall under A
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
For financial products falling under Article 8 or 9 SFDR, where the financial market
participant making available those products is a registered AIFM which has not set up a
website, must that register
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
Should a fund invest in for example cars or real estate assets, through special purposes
vehicles ("SPVs") or holding companies, would those SPVs/holding companies be
considered as the "companies" cov
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
Are financial market participants obliged to publish the pre-contractual or periodic
product templates on their websites based on the SFDR, or does that depend on the
sectoral law on publication of th
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
Can a financial market participant rely on disclosures under Article 6(1) second sub-
paragraph of the SFDR (which allow financial market participants to disclose in pre-
contractual disclosures that
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
Can a sustainable investment pursuant to Article 2(17) SFDR also be made by investing
in another financial product, e.g. a UCITS fund?
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
I am trying to figure out how exactly to calculate the share of sustainable investment that
qualify as environmentally sustainable under the EU Taxonomy (SDFR Template, Annex II,
first question). Let'
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
Given the Commission’s interpretative Q&A II.1 notes that sustainable investments can
be measured at economic activity and at the investment level, how can financial
products do this in practice?
The
SFDR
Joint Committee Final
Answered 2024-07-25
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(EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) · Art. 180
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-17
Technical Provisions (TPs)
Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions · Art. Technical Annex III
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-17
Two classifications for one client
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Investor Protection and Intermediaries
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2024-07-11
Deadline for providing clients with statement on owned financial instruments
Directive 2014/65/EU - Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) · Art. Article 63, Paragraph 1 of Delegated Regulation EU 2017/565
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2024-07-11
Entities not authorised as CASPs by the end of the transition period
MiCA · Art. 143(3)
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2024-07-04
Entities who have not applied for, or whose application for authorisation as CASPs has been refused by the end of the transition period
MiCA
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2024-07-04
Other
(EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) · Art. 13
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-04
Validations
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision · Art. BV1243
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-04
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-03
Reporting Templates
Other
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-03
Reinsurance
(EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII)
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-03
Other
(EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance)
EIOPA
Answered 2024-07-03
Other DORA topics
(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
EIOPA
Answered 2024-06-28
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