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Quarterly ECB statistics add-on, individual insurer (qes)

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

The quarterly Solvency II solo data set plus the extra items the European Central Bank needs for euro area insurance statistics (for example deposits to cedants and investment revenues and expenses). The ECB uses it to compile the balance sheet statistics of euro area insurance corporations. Source

Official title: Quarterly ECB reporting Solo

The facts

Who files
Insurance corporations incorporated and resident in a euro area Member State 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
Quarterly, for each quarter end. Source
Deadline
At the latest 5 weeks after the end of the quarter, 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 (15)

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)
  • Investment revenues and expenses (part of TP and excess of assets over liabilities) (E.04.01.16)
  • Basic Information - General (S.01.02.01)
  • Premiums, claims and expenses by line of business (S.05.01.02)
  • Collective investment undertakings - look-through approach (S.06.03.01)
  • Open derivatives (S.08.01.01)
  • Life and Health SLT Technical Provisions (S.12.01.02)
  • Own funds (S.23.01.02)
  • 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)
  • Content of the submission (SE.01.01.17)
  • Variant of Solvency II template S.02.01.02 with ECB add-ons (quarterly reporting, solo) (SE.02.01.17)
  • Variant of Solvency II template S.06.02.01 with ECB add-ons (annual and quarterly reporting, solo) (SE.06.02.16)
  • Non-Life Technical Provisions (SE.17.01.17)
  • Technical table (T.99.01.01)

Entry point qes (code .17). Listed from taxonomy 2.8.2 Hotfix, in use for 2026 reference dates: the template groups linked from mod/qes-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 15 templates. Taxonomy 2.10.0, from the 31 March 2027 reference date, has 13 templates (release notes Table 1: 13); it drops S.28.01.01 (Minimum Capital Requirement - Only life or only non-life insurance or reinsurance activity), S.28.02.01 (Minimum Capital Requirement - Both life and non-life insurance activity). Source

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

Validation rules

604 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/qes.xsd), listed in an Excel workbook with an 'Expression' column; EIOPA switches rules off between releases through the qes-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 qes and whose 'Deactivated' column is 'no': 604 (466 ERROR, 138 WARNING; 575 marked 'Include in XBRL' yes). 11 more rows name qes 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 qes in 590 rows (445 ERROR, 145 WARNING; 561 '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.