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Where the same supervisory authority is competent for all insurance and reinsurance undertakings in a group, the task of group supervisor shall be exercised by that supervisory authority. In all other cases and subject to paragraph 3, the task of group supervisor shall be exercised: where a group is headed by an insurance or reinsurance undertaking, by the supervisory authority which has authorised that undertaking; where a group is not headed by an insurance or reinsurance undertaking, by the supervisory authority identified in accordance with the following: where the parent of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking is an insurance holding company, by the supervisory authority which has authorised that insurance or reinsurance undertaking; where more than one insurance or reinsurance undertaking with a head office in the Community have as their parent the same insurance holding company, and one of those undertakings has been authorised in the Member State in which the insurance holding company has its head office, by the supervisory authority of the insurance or reinsurance undertaking authorised in that Member State; where the group is headed by more than one insurance holding company with a head office in different Member States and there is an insurance or reinsurance undertaking in each of those Member States, by the supervisory authority of the insurance or reinsurance undertaking with the largest balance sheet total; where more than one insurance or reinsurance undertaking with a head office in the Community have as their parent the same insurance holding company and none of those undertakings has been authorised in the Member State in which the insurance holding company has its head office, by the supervisory authority which authorised the insurance or reinsurance undertaking with the largest balance sheet total; or where the group is a group without a parent undertaking, or in any circumstances not referred to in points (i) to (iv) by the supervisory authority which authorised the insurance or reinsurance undertaking with the largest balance sheet total.

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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.