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3012

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Question ID: 3012

Regulation Reference: (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance)

Topic: Valuation of Assets and Liabilities other than TPs

Article: 75

Status: Rejected

Date of submission: 23 Feb 2024

Question

In the scope of valuation of assets and liabilities, we can read the following under article 75 of the Solvency II directive:

a) assets shall be valued at the amount for which they could be exchanged between knowledgeable willing parties in an arm’s length transaction;

(b) liabilities shall be valued at the amount for which they could be transferred, or settled, between knowledgeable willing parties in an arm’s length transaction What does the notion of arm's length transaction refers to? Is the notion of arm's length transaction related to the Transfer Pricing concept, as put forward by the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational?

Background of the question

The arm's length concept is a key notion under the Transfer Pricing framework and is defined as follows: Arm’s length principle is the international standard that OECD member countries have agreed should be used for determining transfer prices for tax purposes. It is set forth in Article 9 of the OECD Model Tax Convention as follows: where “conditions are made or imposed between the two enterprises in their commercial or financial relations which differ from those which would be made between independent enterprises, then any profits which would, but for those conditions, have accrued to one of the enterprises, but, by reason of those conditions, have not so accrued, may be included in the profits of that enterprise and taxed accordingly”. Overall, under the arm's length principle the intra-group transactions should be priced as if the parties to the transaction were unrelated. To do so the OECD developed an extensive framework to ensure/document the arm's length nature of intra-group transactions.

EIOPA answer

This question has been rejected because the question is not sufficiently clear since the valuation depends on the item to be valued but this item is not specified in your question.