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In forceInsurers: Solvency II national specific templates (national)Last checked 11 November 2026

Irish national specific templates, quarterly (NST, qrsg)

A regulatory return listed by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), Ireland.

The quarterly Irish templates: non-life and life income statements for HIGH impact firms, variable annuity profit and loss attribution and stress tests for firms with variable annuity business, and the two statistical templates (NST.12 aggregate balance sheet, NST.13 security holdings) that help translate the supervisory data into statistical concepts. Source

Official title: National Specific Templates - quarterly reporting (module qrsg)

The facts

Who files
NST.01.01.03: HIGH impact non-life individual undertakings, branches and groups. NST.02.01.03: HIGH impact life individual undertakings, branches and groups. NST.08 to NST.11: firms meeting requirement 1.2.1 of the technical specifications (variable annuities). NST.12 and NST.13: the entire Solvency II reporting population. Source
How often
Quarterly; NST.11 (variable annuity stress tests) in Quarter 2 only. Source
Deadline
The same submission dates as the EIOPA quarterly templates (NST page, Timeline for Submission); see cbi/ins-qrs and cbi/ins-qrg. The 2026 schedule of statistical returns lists NST.12 and NST.13 at 5 May, 4 August and 4 November 2026 and 4 February 2027. Source
Format
XBRL-XML. XBRL is the only accepted format. The NST taxonomy extends the EIOPA Solvency II taxonomy (NST 1.7.0 extends EIOPA 2.8.2) and is used from the 31 December 2024 reporting date. Files are uploaded as .xbrl or .zip with the file naming in the release notes. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the CBI: Central Bank of Ireland Portal (formerly the Online Reporting System, ONR); MiFIR transaction reporting Machine to Machine channel; Online Reporting System (ONR), now linked as 'Credit Union Auditor Reporting'; Email to the Central Bank. See how firms file with the CBI.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Insurers: Solvency II national specific templates (national)

Templates (8)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the CBI's code in brackets.

  • Non-Life Income Statement (NST.01.01.03)
  • Life Income Statement (NST.02.01.03)
  • Variable Annuity P&L Attribution (Liability) (NST.08.01.03)
  • Variable Annuity P&L Attribution (Asset) (NST.09.01.03)
  • Variable Annuity P&L Attribution (Other) (NST.10.01.03)
  • Variable Annuity Stress Tests (NST.11.01.03)
  • Quarterly Aggregate Balance Sheet Statement (NST.12.01.03)
  • Quarterly Aggregate reporting of Security Holdings (NST.13.01.03)

Templates in module qrsg ('Quarterly reporting Solo and Group') of the NST 1.7.0 annotated templates: 54 tables. NST.14 (Non-Life Policy and Customer Information) is shown on the NST page as no longer required. Source

Validation rules

115 rules, as counted from the CBI's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: XBRL Formula assertions in the NST taxonomy package (val folder), plus an Excel list of every rule with its expression, severity and modules.

The rules, on centralbank.ie

How they were counted

Distinct rule codes in sheet 'NST' of 'NST 1.7.0 List of Validations' whose 'Severity and modules' column names module qrsg, with 'Include in XBRL' = yes and 'Deactivated' = no (115). No rule code for qrsg has 'Include in XBRL' = no.

Counts are in the CBI's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

Published only added up across firms. NST.12 is used to remove non-resident branch activity from the Solvency II data when compiling the Central Bank's quarterly insurance corporations statistics (balance sheet of Irish insurance corporations). Source

Where it is published (Excel files and charts)

  • Insurance Corporations Statistics

    Added up across firms · Excel files and charts

    Quarterly balance sheet of Irish insurance corporations and annual premiums, claims and acquisition expenses statistics, derived from the quarterly and annual Solvency II returns, with NST.12 and SNST.1 used to move from the Solvency II 'home' basis to the statistical 'host' basis. Source

Official documents (24)

The CBI's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

  • Insurance - National Specific Templates

    List of returns · HTML

    Lists every Insurance NST (Table 1) and Statistical NST (NST.12, NST.13) with the firms they apply to, frequency, technical specifications and every DPM and taxonomy release (current: 1.7.0, December 2024).

  • S.I. No. 159/2016 - Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 (Section 48(1)) (Insurance Undertakings National Specific Templates Reporting Arrangements) Regulations 2016

    Legal text · HTML · 2016

    The legal basis of the NSTs named on the NST page.

  • NST 1.7.0 Release Notes

    Release note · DOC · 430.0 KB · December 2024

    Says NST 1.7.0 extends the EIOPA Solvency II 2.8.2 package and is used for NST submissions from the 31 December 2024 reporting date; gives file naming and the module of each template.

    SHA-256 0ae8104974d0show in full0ae8104974d0fd75f341214d277a272b4e9f2f775390ea46e95b99114504b82b
  • NST 1.7.0 DPM Documentation

    Data dictionary · DOCX · 293.7 KB · December 2024

    SHA-256 3d7101161b3cshow in full3d7101161b3c4f87383bed638bc9377176e2ecf3a3d53c02d4b3fa49bdb5555c
  • NST 1.7.0 DPM Dictionary

    Data dictionary · XLSX · 1.2 MB · December 2024

    SHA-256 9d2fda7d80b1show in full9d2fda7d80b1911cb1e7cbee2959ad8296e515259e9d5a9b4693472d692a54f8
  • NST 1.7.0 Annotated Templates

    Template · XLSX · 809.2 KB · December 2024

    Table of contents maps each NST table to the three modules: arsgb (annual), srsg (semi-annual) and qrsg (quarterly).

    SHA-256 5cf787561e53show in full5cf787561e5301fcb7d0c8e4a2ad9f209630333ee6009c7ce24aaeb0f1c1534c
  • NST 1.7.0 List of Validations

    Validation rules · XLSX · 101.2 KB · 9 December 2024

    Sheet 'NST' lists 466 business rules (prefix IEBV) with expression, 'Include in XBRL' and 'Deactivated' flags and the modules each applies to.

    SHA-256 2f0b3615c069show in full2f0b3615c06938b7baa79d97daddf3386330c293e867b1c0b22852910df3371c
  • NST 1.7.0 List of Known Issues

    Known issues · XLSX · 26.4 KB · December 2024

    Historical log of NST taxonomy issues and their fixes.

    SHA-256 a656f66844bdshow in fulla656f66844bd2d31d87a336874cca8c9b21bdef75968d597a3c3c517ce7dea24
  • NST 1.7.0 XBRL Taxonomy Documentation

    Taxonomy · DOCX · 292.3 KB · December 2024

    SHA-256 7fdb1e5677c8show in full7fdb1e5677c8e5a924a8a1ff671350a1fec8095edd13f0947e0b0357a671d930
  • NST 1.7.0 XBRL Taxonomy Package

    Taxonomy · ZIP · 7.5 MB · December 2024

    Extends the EIOPA Solvency II taxonomy; entry points arsgb, srsg and qrsg (folder www.centralbank.ie/ie/xbrl/md/fws/nst/nst/2024-12-09/mod) with XBRL formula assertions in the val folder.

    SHA-256 132c04553f23show in full132c04553f2379dbb9ad67bef0d47a2bcec49c9a6725a8ef0347f0af4d402631
  • NST 1.7.0 XBRL Test Instance Documents

    Sample · ZIP · 303.9 KB · December 2024

    SHA-256 10bb075b26e2show in full10bb075b26e2c97f7e24fe2bb80132d8791debe91577dcbd651e6c8509137152
  • NST 1.7.0 Test Sample Documents

    Sample · ZIP · 11.0 MB · December 2024

    SHA-256 2286a08b7e02show in full2286a08b7e0225699a3d440f82183f5a81ca3afd978fcacbae254654cfa75d50
  • Technical Spec NST.01.01.03

    Instructions · PDF · 691.7 KB

    SHA-256 34a1948c18b0show in full34a1948c18b0ef2c51a922a36c9218a9ff4c6f6e976b10982aeddc39b63d9662
  • Technical Spec NST.02.01.03

    Instructions · PDF · 634.4 KB

    SHA-256 dfc18a7a201bshow in fulldfc18a7a201bc3c1831cc4ec4c14b3b5715c97ab92bb4368510608d2bc948e4d
  • NST's 08-10 - Technical Specification

    Instructions · PDF · 307.2 KB

    Requirement 1.2.1 sets which firms with variable annuity business report NST.08 to NST.10.

    SHA-256 acb29feaa58fshow in fullacb29feaa58f0efbacd4060bf3074c6b9b2941dcd72e30b9725040837f84cb84
  • NST.11 - Technical Specification

    Instructions · PDF · 301.2 KB

    SHA-256 9b556e9b3c1eshow in full9b556e9b3c1ef444c9c22d6ebe05a3b062d787cebd6d4fd21220c5662bbaca17
  • Statistics Division Q&A Document on the Statistical NSTs

    Guidance · PDF · 798.1 KB

    SHA-256 0b5ace4d953fshow in full0b5ace4d953f24e7961c5403739b3ba478aa9228c19ebabc3eb100c9cbf27542
  • Insurance Statistics (statistical reporting requirements for insurance corporations)

    List of returns · HTML

    Lists the Statistics NSTs (NST.12, NST.13) for the Solvency II population and SNST.1 for Irish branches of EEA insurers, with templates, notes on compilation, validations and a Q&A.

  • NST.12 - Quarterly Aggregate Balance Sheet Statement

    Template · XLSX · 135.2 KB

    SHA-256 4e3db274c678show in full4e3db274c67833798f6833143397d3afc82bb3e672fbba9d61423c9e08c65885
  • NST.12 Notes on Compilation

    Instructions · PDF · 1.1 MB

    SHA-256 86e3db8cda29show in full86e3db8cda294cb922b7cd41557cbe44cda3cadb36137053fe38e72da62ad9e2
  • NST.13 - Quarterly Aggregate Reporting of Security Holdings

    Template · XLSX · 22.9 KB

    SHA-256 aa25021085afshow in fullaa25021085afe8eb8a8fbe607e707180f0e70aaa936d2bf5902943a0a675ad08
  • NST.13 Notes on Compilation

    Instructions · PDF · 1,003.9 KB

    SHA-256 2a4a7c1eab9fshow in full2a4a7c1eab9f7e6dcf5078c533234ad76360471bf7c7c1d020b4e42777e54794
  • Q and A Document (Statistics NSTs)

    Guidance · PDF · 798.1 KB

    SHA-256 0b5ace4d953fshow in full0b5ace4d953f24e7961c5403739b3ba478aa9228c19ebabc3eb100c9cbf27542
  • Reporting Schedule for receipt of statistical returns at the Central Bank of Ireland - 2026

    Other · XLSX · 41.4 KB · 2026

    Due dates in 2026 for statistical returns, including NST.12, NST.13, SNST.1, the payment statistics returns (PSM, PSQ, PSS, PSR) and the mortgage arrears return (MAQ).

    SHA-256 20186cfd88d0show in full20186cfd88d0be47334f95b2a6f38471a393bdc605ba816b0e88471acd11d44c

Sources

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Contains Irish Public Sector Information from the Central Bank of Ireland (https://www.centralbank.ie), copyright Central Bank of Ireland, re-used under the Bank's licence for re-use of public sector information (https://www.centralbank.ie/fns/re-use-of-public-sector-information). This library summarises it in plain English and links the originals; the Central Bank of Ireland does not endorse this library.

Last checked 11 November 2026.