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CEIOPS’ <strong>Advice</strong><br />
Simplifications regarding reinsurance recoverables, including<br />
adjustment <strong>for</strong> counterparty default<br />
3.434 The determination of reinsurance recoverables should follow the<br />
same principles as <strong>for</strong> the determination of gross technical provisions<br />
(i.e. it shall comply with Articles 76 to 80 of the <strong>Level</strong> 1 text), with an<br />
additional adjustment (imposed by Article 81) to take into account of<br />
expected losses due to counterparty defaults.<br />
3.435 As a simplification, reinsurance recoverables may be calculated in an<br />
indirect manner as the difference between the technical provisions<br />
gross of reinsurance and the technical provisions net of reinsurance<br />
given that the technical provisions net of reinsurance have been<br />
adjusted <strong>for</strong> the expected losses due to the counterparty default.<br />
3.436 For the valuation of technical provisions gross and net of<br />
reinsurance,respectively, the same risk margin – based on a net<br />
calculation in accordance with the implementing measures on the risk<br />
margin–should be used, meaning that the calculation of the<br />
reinsurance recoverables (RR) could be further simplified as follows:<br />
RR = BEGross – BENet, where<br />
BEGross = the best estimate gross of reinsurance; and<br />
BENet = the best estimate net of reinsurance.<br />
Accordingly, the reinsurance recoverables should not include a risk<br />
margin component.<br />
3.437 To calculate technical provisions net of reinsurance, (re)insurance<br />
undertakings should be allowed to apply gross-to-net techniques<br />
provided that:<br />
• The criteria set out in this advice are met; and<br />
• Further refinements have been made where this would be<br />
necessary to ensure that the gross-to-net technique applied is<br />
proportionate to the underlying risks.<br />
The undertaking should assess the appropriateness of an application of<br />
gross-to-net techniques by conducting a proportionality assessment as<br />
outlined in section 3.1.<br />
3.438 Within a given homogeneous risk group or line of business, the<br />
Gross-to-Net techniques shall be applied separately to each of the<br />
best estimate components gross of reinsurance, leading to the same<br />
best estimate components net of reinsurance as gross of reinsurance.<br />
3.439 The reinsurance recoverables per homogenous risk groups (or lines of<br />
business) could then be calculated as the sum of the differences<br />
between the best estimate technical provisions gross and net of<br />
reinsurance <strong>for</strong> the premium provision and the claims provisions,<br />
respectively.<br />
3.440 When applying Gross-to-Net techniques it should be assessed<br />
whether an allowance <strong>for</strong> the expected counterparty defaults is<br />
reflected in a satisfactory/sufficient manner in the best estimate net<br />
89/112<br />
© CEIOPS 2010