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In forceECB statistical add-onsLast checked 11 November 2026

Annual ECB statistics add-on, branch of a non-EU insurer (aeb)

A regulatory return listed by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), European Union.

The annual Solvency II branch data set plus the extra items the European Central Bank needs for euro area insurance statistics. The ECB uses it to compile insurance corporation statistics for the euro area. Source

Official title: Annual ECB reporting Third country branches

The facts

Who files
Branches in a euro area Member State of insurers whose head office is outside the EEA report the ECB's statistical data to their national central bank, directly or through the national supervisor (ECB Regulation 1374/2014, Articles 2 and 4). EIOPA builds the ECB add-ons into its taxonomy so a firm can send one report covering both EIOPA's and the ECB's requirements, subject to its national authority's guidance. Source
How often
Once a year. Source
Deadline
At the latest 14 weeks after the end of the year, to the national central bank or the national supervisor under local arrangements (ECB Regulation 1374/2014, Article 8). EIOPA's taxonomy roadmap gives no deadline for the ECB entry points. Source
Format
XBRL-XML. Firms file in the data exchange formats set by their national supervisor or group supervisor (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/894, Article 1). National supervisors send the data on to EIOPA as XBRL 2.1 instance documents built on EIOPA's Solvency II taxonomy (EIOPA decision EIOPA-BoS-21/517, Article 6), following EIOPA's XBRL Filing Rules and applying the taxonomy's validation rules (Article 8). Source
How it is filed
Filing route recorded for the EIOPA: EIOPA Hub. See how firms file with the EIOPA.
Status
In forceReference dates in 2026 are filed with taxonomy 2.8.2 or its optional NACE 2.1 Hotfix (2.8.2 applies until Q4/annual 2026 included). Taxonomy 2.10.0 applies from the Q1 2027 reference period. Source
Legal basis
Group
ECB statistical add-ons

Templates (91)

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

  • Deposits to cedants - line-by-line reporting (E.01.01.16)
  • Pension entitlements (E.02.01.16)
  • Investment revenues and expenses (part of TP and excess of assets over liabilities) (E.04.01.16)
  • Basic Information (S.01.02.07)
  • Basic Information - RFF and matching adjustment portfolios (S.01.03.01)
  • Liabilities by currency (S.02.02.01)
  • Additional branch balance sheet information (S.02.03.07)
  • Off-balance sheet items - general (S.03.01.01)
  • Premiums, claims and expenses by line of business (S.05.01.01)
  • Collective investment undertakings - look-through approach (S.06.03.01)
  • Climate change-related risks to investments (S.06.04.01)
  • Structured products (S.07.01.01)
  • Open derivatives (S.08.01.01)
  • Income/gains and losses in the period (S.09.01.01)
  • Securities lending and repos (S.10.01.01)
  • Assets held as collateral (S.11.01.01)
Show all 91 templates
  • Life and Health SLT Technical Provisions (S.12.01.01)
  • Life and Health SLT Technical Provisions - by country (S.12.02.01)
  • Projection of future gross cash flows (S.13.01.01)
  • Life obligations analysis (S.14.01.01)
  • Non-Life obligation analysis (S.14.02.01)
  • Cyber underwriting risk (S.14.03.01)
  • Information on annuities stemming from Non-Life Insurance obligations (S.16.01.01)
  • Non-Life Technical Provisions (S.17.01.01)
  • Non-Life Technical Provisions - By country (S.17.03.01)
  • Projection of future cash flows (Best Estimate - Non Life) (S.18.01.01)
  • Non-life insurance claims (S.19.01.01)
  • Development of the distribution of the claims incurred (S.20.01.01)
  • Loss distribution risk profile (S.21.01.01)
  • Underwriting risks non-life (S.21.02.01)
  • Non-life distribution of underwriting risks - by sum insured (S.21.03.01)
  • Impact of long-term guarantees measures and transitionals (S.22.01.01)
  • Information on the transitional on interest rates calculation (S.22.04.01)
  • Overall calculation of the transitional on technical provisions (S.22.05.01)
  • Best estimate subject to volatility adjustment by country and currency (S.22.06.01)
  • Own funds (S.23.01.07)
  • Own funds - movements in the reporting period (S.23.03.07)
  • Participations held (S.24.01.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - for undertakings on Standard Formula (S.25.01.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - for undertakings using an internal model (partial or full) (S.25.05.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Market risk (S.26.01.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Counterparty default risk (S.26.02.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Life underwriting risk (S.26.03.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Health underwriting risk (S.26.04.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Non-Life underwriting risk (S.26.05.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Operational risk (S.26.06.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Simplifications (S.26.07.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - for undertakings using an internal model (partial or full) (S.26.08.01)
  • Internal model: Market and Credit risk - for financial instruments (S.26.09.01)
  • Internal model - Credit event risk Portfolio view details (S.26.10.01)
  • Internal model - Credit risk details for financial instruments (S.26.11.01)
  • Internal model - Credit risk Non-Financial Instruments (S.26.12.01)
  • Internal model - Non-life & Health NSLT Underwriting risk (S.26.13.01)
  • Internal model - Life and Health underwriting risk (S.26.14.01)
  • Internal model - Operational risk (S.26.15.01)
  • Internal model - Model Changes (S.26.16.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Non-life and Health catastrophe risk (S.27.01.01)
  • Minimum Capital Requirement - Only life or only non-life insurance or reinsurance activity (S.28.01.01)
  • Minimum Capital Requirement - Both life and non-life insurance activity (S.28.02.01)
  • Summary analysis of changes in BOF (S.29.01.07)
  • Excess of Assets over Liabilities - explained by investments and financial liabilities (S.29.02.01)
  • Excess of Assets over Liabilities - explained by technical provisions (S.29.03.01)
  • Detailed analysis per period - Technical flows versus Technical provisions (S.29.04.01)
  • Facultative covers for non-life and life business basic data (S.30.01.01)
  • Facultative covers for non-life and life business shares data (S.30.02.01)
  • Outgoing Reinsurance Program basic data (S.30.03.01)
  • Outgoing Reinsurance Program shares data (S.30.04.01)
  • Share of reinsurers (including Finite Reinsurance and SPV's) (S.31.01.01)
  • Special Purpose Vehicles (S.31.02.01)
  • PEPP and PEPP saver information (S.52.01.01)
  • Content of the submission (SE.01.01.18)
  • Variant of Solvency II template S.02.01.07 with ECB add-ons (annual reporting, third country branches) (SE.02.01.18)
  • Variant of Solvency II template S.06.02.07 with ECB add-ons (annual and quarterly reporting, third country branches) (SE.06.02.18)
  • Content of the submission (SR.01.01.07)
  • Balance sheet (SR.02.01.07)
  • Life and Health SLT Technical Provisions (SR.12.01.01)
  • Non-Life Technical Provisions (SR.17.01.01)
  • Projection of future cash flows (Best Estimate - Matching portfolios) (SR.22.02.01)
  • Information on the matching adjustment calculation (SR.22.03.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - for undertakings on Standard Formula (SR.25.01.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - for undertakings using an internal model (partial or full) (SR.25.05.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Market risk (SR.26.01.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Counterparty default risk (SR.26.02.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Life underwriting risk (SR.26.03.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Health underwriting risk (SR.26.04.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Non-Life underwriting risk (SR.26.05.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Operational risk (SR.26.06.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Simplifications (SR.26.07.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - for undertakings using an internal model (SR.26.08.01)
  • Solvency Capital Requirement - Non-life and Health catastrophe risk (SR.27.01.01)
  • Technical table (T.99.01.01)

Entry point aeb (code .18). Listed from taxonomy 2.8.2 Hotfix, in use for 2026 reference dates: the template groups linked from mod/aeb-pre.xml, named from tab/tab-lab-en.xml (or the table label where the group label is generic). The 2.8.2 Hotfix release notes (Table 1) count 91 templates. Taxonomy 2.10.0, from the 31 March 2027 reference date, has 82 templates (release notes Table 1: 80); it drops E.02.01.16 (Pension entitlements), S.21.01.01 (Loss distribution risk profile), S.21.02.01 (Underwriting risks non-life), S.21.03.01 (Non-life distribution of underwriting risks - by sum insured), S.22.06.01 (Best estimate subject to volatility adjustment by country and currency), S.23.03.07 (Own funds - movements in the reporting period), S.29.01.07 (Summary analysis of changes in BOF), S.29.02.01 (Excess of Assets over Liabilities - explained by investments and financial liabilities), S.29.03.01 (Excess of Assets over Liabilities - explained by technical provisions), S.29.04.01 (Detailed analysis per period - Technical flows versus Technical provisions) and adds S.22.07.01 (Calculated volatility adjustment and corresponding best estimates by country and currency). The 2.10.0 release notes say templates 'S.30.01 and S.03.02' (as written) are kept in the taxonomy for ad hoc supervisory requests but are no longer part of the ITS on supervisory reporting. Source

This return's templates, with every other one, by area: Solvency II QRTs: every template in plain English.

Validation rules

2,227 rules, as counted from the EIOPA's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: XBRL Formula 1.0 assertions in the taxonomy package (linked from mod/aeb.xsd), listed in an Excel workbook with an 'Expression' column; EIOPA switches rules off between releases through the aeb-ignore-val.xml deactivation file..

EIOPA's Guidelines on reporting and public disclosure include the mandatory application of the validation rules published by EIOPA (List of Validations). ERROR rules must pass for a report to be accepted; WARNING rules flag possible errors without blocking the report.

The rules, on dev.eiopa.europa.eu

How they were counted

Rows of sheet 'Business Validation 2.8.2 HF' in EIOPA_SolvencyII_Validations_2.8.2_Hotfix.xlsx (updated 10 November 2026) whose 'Severity and modules' column names aeb and whose 'Deactivated' column is 'no': 2,227 (1,611 ERROR, 616 WARNING; 2,125 marked 'Include in XBRL' yes). 36 more rows name aeb but are deactivated. For 2.10.0, sheet 'Business Validation 2.10.0' of EIOPA_SolvencyII_Validations_2.10.0.xlsx (last update 30 June 2026) names aeb in 2,167 rows (1,536 ERROR, 631 WARNING; 2,087 'Include in XBRL' yes), none deactivated.

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

Public data

Published only added up across firms. The ECB (not EIOPA) publishes balance sheet statistics for euro area insurance corporations from Q3 2016, and annual premiums, claims and acquisition expenses from 2017, in the ECB Data Portal. National central banks derive most of these statistics from Solvency II reporting plus the ECB add-ons. Source

Where it is published (ECB Data Portal time series)

Official documents (45)

The EIOPA'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.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Source: EIOPA - European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, https://eiopa.europa.eu/. This document has been drafted using material downloaded from EIOPA website; EIOPA does not endorse this publication and in no way is liable for copyright or other intellectual property rights infringements nor for any damages caused to third-parties through this publication. Taxonomy release files copied here: EIOPA owns the copyright, and the taxonomy is available for download, free of charge, on https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/tools-and-data/supervisory-reporting-dpm-and-xbrl_en (EIOPA XBRL Taxonomy Licence Agreement, copied with them).

Last checked 11 November 2026.