Definition: Captive reinsurance undertaking

Category: EU legislation

"Captive reinsurance undertaking" means a reinsurance undertaking owned either by a financial undertaking other than an insurance or a reinsurance undertaking or a group of insurance or reinsurance undertakings to which Directive 98/78/EC applies, or by a non-financial undertaking, the purpose of which is to provide reinsurance cover exclusively for the risks of the undertaking or undertakings to which it belongs or of an undertaking or undertakings of the group of which the captive reinsurance undertaking is a member. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_323/l_32320051209en00010050.pdf Directive 98/78/EC on the supplementary supervision of insurance undertakings in an insurance group
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European Union, Directive (EC) No 2005/68 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2005 on reinsurance and amending Council Directives 73/239/EEC, 92/49/EEC as well as Directives 98/78/EC and 2002/83/EC (Official Journal of the European Union No L 323, 9/12/2005)
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