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Article 258 is amended as follows: paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. Supervisory authorities shall be given all supervisory powers to take measures in relation to insurance holding companies and mixed financial holding companies that are necessary to ensure that groups to which group supervision is applied in accordance with Article 213(2), points (a), (b) and (c), comply with all the requirements laid down in this Title. Those powers shall include the general supervisory powers referred to in Article 34. Without prejudice to their provisions on criminal law, Member States shall impose sanctions on, or adopt measures relating to, insurance holding companies and mixed financial holding companies which infringe laws, regulations or administrative provisions brought into force to transpose this Title, or in relation to the person effectively managing those companies. The supervisory authorities shall cooperate closely to ensure that such sanctions or measures are effective, in particular where the central administration or main establishment of an insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company is not located in the same Member State as its head office.’ ; the following paragraphs are inserted: ‘2a. Where the group supervisor has established that the conditions set out in Article 213b(1) are not met or have ceased to be met, the insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company shall be subject to appropriate supervisory measures to ensure or restore, as the case may be, continuity and integrity of group supervision and to ensure compliance with the requirements laid down in this Title. In the case of a mixed financial holding company, the supervisory measures shall, in particular, take into account the effects on the financial conglomerate as a whole as well as on its related regulated undertakings. 2b. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2a of this Article, Member States shall ensure that the supervisory measures which may be applied to insurance holding companies and mixed financial holding companies include at least the following: The group supervisor shall consult the other supervisory authorities concerned and EIOPA before taking any of the measures referred to in the first subparagraph, where those measures affect undertakings which have their head offices in more than one Member State.’ ; suspending the exercise of voting rights attached to the shares of the subsidiary insurance or reinsurance undertaking held by the insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company; issuing injunctions, sanctions or penalties against the insurance holding company, the mixed financial holding company or the members of the administrative, management or supervisory body of those companies; giving instructions or directions to the insurance holding company or mixed financial holding company to transfer to its shareholders the participations in its subsidiary insurance and reinsurance undertakings; designating on a temporary basis another insurance holding company, mixed financial holding company or insurance or reinsurance undertaking within the group as responsible for ensuring compliance with the requirements set out in this Title; restricting or prohibiting distributions or interest payments to shareholders; requiring insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies to divest from or reduce holdings in insurance or reinsurance undertakings or other related undertakings referred to in Article 228(1); requiring insurance holding companies or mixed financial holding companies to submit a plan on return, without delay, to compliance.

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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.