Consultation on the proposal for Guidelines to specify further the qualitative and quantitative indicators in pre-emptive recovery planning

Interested stakeholders.

These Guidelines define the qualitative and quantitative indicators to be considered in pre-emptive recovery plans, including indicators related to capital and liquidity positions, asset quality, profitability, market conditions, macroeconomic conditions and operational events.

The consultation is related to the implementation of the European Union’s Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive (IRRD). 

The IRRD, which is set to become operational in January 2027, introduces a recovery and resolution framework tailor-made for (re)insurers in Europe. The Directive puts the focus on the importance of pre-emptive planning and effective crisis management and aims at maintaining the stability of Europe’s insurance sector while also allowing for the orderly wind-down of failing undertakings and groups. The IRRD will make insurance failures less likely and limit the impact of failures when they do happen, making the management of insurance failures more effective and cost-efficient.

EIOPA invites stakeholders to provide their feedback on the consultation paper by responding to the questions via the online survey here below no later than 20 March 2026.