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Question ID: 3273

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

Topic: Own Funds (OF), Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR), Internal Models (IMs)

Article: 121(2)(1)

Status: Final

Date of submission: 28 Feb 2025

Question

We have a question regarding the discounting of assets and liabilities when calculating the Solvency Capital Requirement for a non-life undertaking using an internal model with uncentred risk measure and short average asset and liability durations (significantly under 5 years). In our opinion, end-period own funds (t=1) should be discounted to the period start (t=0) when comparing them with initial own funds, or alternatively, initial own funds should be inflated to period end with a corresponding factor. This is in order to take into account the time value of money effect for the period from t=0 to t=1 when calculating the SCR. According to our understanding, article 121(2) first subparagraph of Directive 2009/138/EC, requiring adequate, applicable and relevant actuarial and statistical techniques, confirms this. Does EIOPA have any objections to this interpretation?

EIOPA answer

EIOPA has no objection to this interpretation for this particular model setup.