I.- With regard to asset and liability management, the participating and parent undertakings referred to respectively in the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 356-2 regularly assess the sensitivity of the prudential technical provisions and the group’s own funds to the assumptions underlying the extrapolation of the relevant risk-free interest rate curve referred to in Article R. 351-3.
II – Where the equalisation adjustment referred to in Article R. 351-4 is applied, the participating and parent undertakings referred to respectively in the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 356-2 regularly assess the sensitivity of the group’s prudential technical provisions and eligible own funds to the assumptions underlying the calculation of the equalisation adjustment, including the calculation of the fundamental margin referred to in Article R. 351-5, and the potential effects of a forced sale of assets on their eligible own funds. They also assess the sensitivity of the group’s prudential technical provisions and eligible own funds to changes in the composition of the assigned portfolio of assets and the consequences of reducing the equalisation adjustment to zero.
III – Where the volatility adjustment referred to in Article R. 351-6 is applied, the participating undertakings and the parent undertakings referred to respectively in the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 356-2 regularly assess the sensitivity of the group’s prudential technical provisions and eligible own funds to the assumptions underlying the calculation of the volatility adjustment and the potential consequences of a forced sale of assets on their eligible own funds, as well as the consequences of reducing the volatility adjustment to zero.
IV – Each year, the participating and parent undertakings referred to in the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 356-2 shall submit the assessments referred to in I, II and III of this Article to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution as part of the reporting process referred to in Article L. 356-21. In the event that the reduction of the equalisation adjustment or the volatility adjustment to zero would result in a failure to cover the Solvency Capital Requirement at group level, the undertaking shall also submit an analysis of the measures it could take to restore the level of eligible own funds corresponding to the Solvency Capital Requirement or to reduce the risk profile in order to ensure compliance with the group Solvency Capital Requirement.
V.- Where the volatility adjustment referred to in Article R. 351-6 is applied, the written risk management policy referred to in Article L. 356-18 defines the criteria for applying the volatility adjustment.