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Objection to Solvency II amendments regarding risk margins, crypto-assets, and fossil fuels

by name voted on 20.01.2026

Summary

The motion objects to new EU rules that lower capital requirements for insurers, arguing this could threaten financial stability and ignores risks from crypto-assets and fossil fuels.
10 20.01.2026
Resolution
energy
finance
economy
environment
information technology and data processing

Key points

  • The Commission bundled several different amendments together without providing clear justifications for why they were linked.
  • The regulation bundles various amendments without providing the required objective justifications for their substantive links.
  • There are concerns that the changes to how risk margins are calculated significantly lower the capital requirements for insurers, potentially threatening financial stability.
  • The Commission reduced capital requirements for certain securitisation positions without providing sufficient market data or evidence to support the change.
Documents (PDFs)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Commission delegated regulation of 29 October 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35 as regards technical provisions, long-term guarantee measures, own funds, equity risk, spread risk on securitisation positions, other standard formula capital requirements, reporting and disclosure, proportionality and group solvency
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