Recital 47

Directive (EU) 2025/2 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024 amending Directive 2009/138/EC as regards proportionality, quality of supervision, reporting, long-term guarantee measures, macro-prudential tools, sustainability risks and group and cross-border supervision, and amending Directives 2002/87/EC and 2013/34/EU (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

(47) Directive 2009/138/EC provides for a country component in the volatility adjustment that aims to ensure that exaggerations of bond spreads in a specific country are mitigated. However, the activation of the country component is based on an absolute threshold and a relative threshold with respect to the risk-adjusted spread of the country, which can lead to cliff-edge effects and therefore increase the volatility of own funds of insurance and reinsurance undertakings. In order to ensure that exaggerations of bond spreads in a specific Member State whose currency is the euro are mitigated effectively, the country component should be replaced by a macro component which is to be calculated on the basis of the differences between the risk-corrected spread for the euro and the risk-corrected spread for the country. In order to avoid cliff-edge effects, the calculation should avoid discontinuities with respect to the input parameters.

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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.