Article 4

1. Taking into account the impact that the failure of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking could have, due to the nature of its business, its shareholding structure, its legal form, its risk profile, size and legal status, its interconnectedness to other regulated undertakings or to the financial system in general, the scope and the complexity of its activities, and whether its failure and subsequent winding-up under normal insolvency proceedings would be likely to have a significant negative effect on financial markets, on other undertakings, on policy holders, on funding conditions, or on the wider economy, Member States shall ensure that supervisory and resolution authorities determine whether simplified obligations can apply for certain insurance and reinsurance undertakings and groups with respect to: the contents and details of pre-emptive recovery plans provided for in Articles 5 to 8 and resolution plans provided for in Articles 9 to 12; the date by which the first pre-emptive recovery and resolution plans are to be drawn up and the frequency for updating pre-emptive recovery and resolution plans, which may be lower than the frequency provided for in Article 5(4), Article 7(3), Article 9(5) and Article 11(3); the content and level of detail of the information required from undertakings pursuant to Article 5(6), Article 7(3), Article 10(2) and Article 12(1); the level of detail for the assessment of resolvability provided for in Articles 13 and 14. 2. EIOPA shall, by 29 July 2027, issue guidelines in accordance with Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 to specify further details on the criteria referred to in paragraph 1, introductory part, of this Article. 3. Member States shall require the supervisory authorities or the resolution authorities, as applicable, to provide EIOPA, on an annual basis and for each Member State separately, with all of the following information: the number of insurance and reinsurance undertakings and groups subject to pre-emptive recovery planning and resolution planning pursuant to Articles 5, 7, 9 and 10; the number of insurance and reinsurance undertakings and groups subject to simplified obligations as referred to in paragraph 1; quantitative information on the application of the criteria referred to in paragraph 1, introductory part; a description of the simplified obligations applied on the basis of the criteria referred to in paragraph 1, introductory part, as compared to the full obligations, together with the volume of capital requirements, premiums, technical provisions and assets, measured as percentages of the total volume of, respectively, capital requirements, premiums, technical provisions and assets of the insurance and reinsurance undertakings of the Member States or of all the groups, as applicable. 4. EIOPA shall publicly disclose, on an annual basis and for each Member State separately, the information referred to in paragraph 3, points (a) to (d), together with an assessment of any divergences regarding the implementation of paragraph 1 at national level.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.