At the end of March, with his successor as yet unannounced, Gabriel Bernardino will step down as chair of the Frankfurt-based European insurance and occupational pensions supervisor after 10 years in office. He was there from the very beginning, building up EIOPA from the Committee of European...

ProportionalityBernardino describes the changes in how Solvency II would be tailored for smaller and less-risky insurers as a “paradigm shift”.Some notable stakeholders including Karel Van Hulle had called for the right for proportional treatment to be included in the text of the directive, and...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) has grown steadily since it was officially established in 2011, but the next few years marks a considerable step up in its budget, staffing and responsibilities.The authority holds an unusual position in the oversight of insurers...

EIOPA delivered a set of draft regulatory and implementing technical standards to the European Commission back in August. What were your key considerations while drawing up these standards?I think this was a very important step for us towards the finalisation of the framework of the PEPP, and our...

The EU should play a “key role” in establishing pandemic insurance to protect businesses in future outbreaks, said Gabriel Bernardino, chairman of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority.Bernardino said in an interview last week that Europe has an “opportunity” to head off...

The Coronavirus outbreak has created a huge disruption globally. What does this mean for the insurance and pensions sector in Europe?Without doubt this is a challenging time for business and for people not just in Europe but around the world. Companies have had to radically adjust their business...

​Interview with Justin Wray, Deputy Head of the Policy Department of EIOPA, conducted by Evgenia Tzortzi for Kathimerini.

EIOPA has identified cyber, including silent cyber, aggregation as a key risk. What must the (re)insurance sector do to ensure it can to write this risk prudently and effectively – and how might governments or government agencies help, for example, through the provision of data?The issue of...

He has been called ”Insurance tsar”. The 53-year Portuguese Gabriel Bernardino has led the European supervisory authority for insurance and occupational pensions, EIOPA, since its creation in 2011. Prior to that, he was Chairman of the predecessor Committee of European Insurance and Occupational...