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The Minimum Capital Requirement shall be calculated in accordance with the following principles: it shall be calculated in a clear and simple manner, and in such a way as to ensure that the calculation can be audited; it shall correspond to an amount of eligible basic own funds below which policy holders and beneficiaries are exposed to an unacceptable level of risk were insurance and reinsurance undertakings allowed to continue their operations; the linear function referred to in paragraph 2 used to calculate the Minimum Capital Requirement shall be calibrated to the Value-at-Risk of the basic own funds of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking subject to a confidence level of 85 % over a one-year period; it shall have an absolute floor of: EUR 2200000 for non-life insurance undertakings, including captive insurance undertakings, save in the case where all or some of the risks included in one of the classes 10 to 15 listed in Part A of Annex 1 are covered, in which case it shall be no less than EUR 3200000, EUR 3200000 for life insurance undertakings, including captive insurance undertakings, EUR 3200000 for reinsurance undertakings, except in the case of captive reinsurance undertakings, in which case the Minimum Capital Requirement shall be no less than EUR 1000000, the sum of the amounts set out in points (i) and (ii) for insurance undertakings as referred to in Article 73(5).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.