Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/165 of 5 February 2016 laying down technical information for the calculation of technical provisions and basic own funds for reporting with reference dates from 1 January until 30 March 2016 in accordance with Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Solvency II) (Text with EEA relevance)

1 Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall use the technical information referred to in paragraph 2 when calculating technical provisions and basic own funds for reporting with reference dates from 1 January until 30 March 2016.

2 For each relevant currency, the technical information to calculate the best estimate in accordance with Article 77 of Directive 2009/138/EC, the matching adjustment in accordance with Article 77c of that Directive and the volatility adjustment in accordance with Article 77d of that Directive shall be the following: (a) the relevant risk-free rate term structures set out in Annex I; (b) the fundamental spreads for the calculation of the matching adjustment set out in Annex II; (c) for each relevant national insurance market the volatility adjustments set out in Annex III.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 January 2016.