B. | Annex II is amended as follows:
(1) | The title is replaced by the following: |
(2) | in point 1, the first paragraph is replaced by the following:
‘1. | In the case of two or more insurance undertakings or reinsurance undertakings as referred to in Article 2(2) which are the subsidiaries of an insurance holding company, a mixed financial holding company, a non-member-country insurance undertaking or a non-member-country reinsurance undertaking and which are established in different Member States, the competent authorities shall ensure that the method described in this Annex is applied in a consistent manner.’; |
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(3) | in point 2, the second and third indents and the subparagraph following the third indent are replaced by the following:
‘— | if that insurance undertaking or reinsurance undertaking and one or more other insurance undertakings or reinsurance undertakings authorised in the same Member State have as their parent undertaking the same insurance holding company, mixed financial holding company, non-member-country insurance undertaking or non-member-country reinsurance undertaking, and the insurance undertaking or reinsurance undertaking is taken into account in the calculation provided for in this Annex carried out for one of these other undertakings, |
— | if that insurance undertaking or reinsurance undertaking and one or more other insurance undertakings or reinsurance undertakings authorised in other Member States have as their parent undertaking the same insurance holding company, mixed financial holding company, non-member-country insurance undertaking or non-member-country reinsurance undertaking, and an agreement granting the exercise of the supplementary supervision covered by this Annex to the supervisory authority of another Member State has been concluded in accordance with Article 4(2). |
Where insurance holding companies, mixed financial holding companies or non-member-country insurance or reinsurance undertakings hold successive participations in the insurance holding company, mixed financial holding company or non-member-country insurance or reinsurance undertaking, Member States may apply the calculations provided for in this Annex only at the level of the ultimate parent undertaking of the insurance undertaking or reinsurance undertaking which is an insurance holding company, a mixed financial holding company, a non-member-country insurance undertaking or a non-member-country reinsurance undertaking.’;
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(4) | point 3 is replaced by the following:
‘3. | The competent authorities shall ensure that calculations analogous to those described in Annex I are carried out at the level of the insurance holding company, mixed financial holding company, non-member-country insurance undertaking or non-member-country reinsurance undertaking.
The analogy shall consist in applying the general principles and methods described in Annex I at the level of the insurance holding company, mixed financial holding company, non-member-country insurance undertaking or non-member-country reinsurance undertaking.
For the sole purpose of that calculation, the parent undertaking shall be treated as if it were an insurance undertaking or reinsurance undertaking subject to the following conditions:
— | a zero solvency requirement where it is an insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company, |
— | a solvency requirement determined in accordance with the principles of section 2.3 of Annex I, where it is a non-member-country insurance undertaking or a non-member-country reinsurance undertaking, |
— | the same conditions as laid down in Article 16(1) of Directive 73/239/EEC or in Article 18 of Directive 79/267/EEC as regards the elements eligible for the solvency margin.’. |
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