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EIOPA published today a follow-up to its approach to simplification. The new note takes stock of the progress made so far and sets out EIOPA's ongoing efforts and future plans to make regulation simpler and reduce unnecessary complexity across Europe's insurance and occupational pensions sectors.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) have identified external dependencies, emerging technologies and private credit as key vulnerabilities for the EU financial system in their Autumn 2026 risk update.

EIOPA has submitted its technical advice to the European Commission on minimum common standards for insurance guarantee schemes (IGS) in the European Union. The advice provides details on how to develop a targeted harmonisation of IGS.

EIOPA's Board of Supervisors has elected Stavros Konstantas, Director of Occupational and Private Insurance Supervision at the Bank of Greece, to EIOPA’s Management Board.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) today published a final report on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS), proposing to simplify the bilateral margin requirements of the European Commission’s Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/2251.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) today published a statement calling for a cross-sectoral, risk-based and consistent supervisory approach to mitigate the ICT risks stemming from frontier AI models.

EIOPA published today its July 2026 Insurance Risk Dashboard. The main findings show that risks in the European insurance sector are stable at a medium level.

EIOPA released today its July 2026 Risk Dashboard for institutions for occupational retirement provision (IORPs), highlighting that persistent geopolitical uncertainty and evolving global market conditions continue to shape the risk landscape for the European occupational pensions sector.

EIOPA collects and publishes comprehensive statistics on insurance undertakings in the European Economic Area. The factsheet published today complements regular statistics by providing further insights into (re)insurers’ exposures to private credit and private equity.

The Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities has issued a decision stating that an appeal brought by an individual against the European Banking Authority is inadmissible.

EIOPA published today a total of eight sets of guidelines and draft technical standards relating to the review of the Solvency II framework. With today’s publications, EIOPA has delivered all the legal instruments it was mandated to develop under the review.

EIOPA published today altogether seven instruments related to the implementation of the Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive (IRRD). The package includes four guidelines and three draft regulatory technical standards (RTS).

EIOPA has launched two consultations today on policy instruments related to the implementation of the IRRD. Today’s consultations propose draft technical standards covering the valuation of (re)insurers and groups for the purposes of resolution.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) welcome and support today’s warning from European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) on the systemic cyber risks posed by frontier AI models.

EIOPA has launched a consultation on proposed changes to insurance corporate disclosures under the EU Taxonomy framework for environmentally sustainable activities. EIOPA’s draft proposals aim to increase transparency, simplify reporting, and better align insurers’ Taxonomy-related reporting...

EIOPA published today its follow-up report to the Peer Review on Product Oversight and Governance (POG), assessing the progress made by National Competent Authorities (NCAs) in implementing recommended actions to strengthen the supervision of POG requirements.

EIOPA published today a new report providing an overview of EIOPA’s oversight activities throughout 2025. Over the past year, EIOPA enhanced coordination among national supervisors and strengthened supervisory capacity across the European Economic Area (EEA) through country visits, technical...

EIOPA published today its June 2026 Financial Stability Report, which assesses the resilience of the European insurance and occupational pensions sectors in a challenging economic and financial environment characterised by moderate growth, heightened geopolitical uncertainty...

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