Question ID: 1290
Regulation Reference: (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII)
Article: 75
Status: Final
Date of submission: 21 Aug 2017
Question
The final report on Guidelines on valuation of assets and other liabilities had an Annex (Table: Consistency of IFRS Valuation with Article 75 of the Directive) that detailed whether IFRSs / IASs where or not consistent with SII. It did go into Leasing standard (IAS17). So you are right that the final Guidelines have nothing to update in this regard. Having said that, the table is very useful but not part of the guidelines - only part of the Final report - we as auditors refer to it often and so do clients. So the question is whether EIOPA plans to update the mentioned table over time. We have been thinking about the impact of the new standard on the SII balance sheet, also for Standard formula reporters there is a capital impact that might be material depending on amount of lease assets. Some clients have asked the question already hence it would be useful to know EIOPA's plan to deal with this.
EIOPA answer
The annex of the Final Report on the Guidelines on recognition and valuation of assets and liabilities other than technical provisions (Table regarding consistency of IFRSs with Art. 75 of SII Directive) has been added as explanatory text and will not be updated. Our assumption is that the recognition and valuation of balance sheet items according to IFRS 16 Leases are consistent with Art. 75 of SII Directive.