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AI Summary of Article 72 Duties of auditors

Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 28 January 2025 - onwards
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Article 72 Duties of auditors

1. Member States shall provide at least that persons authorised within the meaning of Directive 2006/43/EC, who perform in an insurance or reinsurance undertaking the statutory audit referred to in Article 34 or 35 of Directive 2013/34/EU or Article 73 of Directive 2009/65/EC or any other statutory task, shall have a duty to report promptly to the supervisory authorities any fact or decision concerning that undertaking of which they have become aware while carrying out that task and which is liable to bring about any of the following:

(a) a material breach of the laws, regulations or administrative provisions which lay down the conditions governing authorisation or which specifically govern pursuit of the activities of insurance and reinsurance undertakings;

(b) the impairment of the continuous functioning of the insurance or reinsurance undertaking;

(c) a refusal to certify the accounts or to the expression of reservations;

(d) non-compliance with the Solvency Capital Requirement;

(e) non-compliance with the Minimum Capital Requirement.