Article 260 Risk management areas
1. The areas referred to in Article 44(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC shall include all of the following policies:
(a) Underwriting and reserving:
(i) actions to be taken by the insurance or reinsurance undertaking to assess and manage the risk of loss or of adverse change in the values of insurance and reinsurance liabilities, resulting from inadequate pricing and provisioning assumptions due to internal or external factors, including sustainability risks;
(ii) the sufficiency and quality of relevant data to be considered in the underwriting and reserving processes, as set out in Article 19 of this Regulation, and their consistency with the standards of sufficiency and quality;
(iii) the adequacy of claims management procedures including the extent to which they cover the overall cycle of claims.
(b) Asset-liability management:
(i) the structural mismatch between assets and liabilities and in particular the duration mismatch of those assets and liabilities;
(ii) any dependency between risks of different asset and liability classes;
(iii) any dependency between the risks of different insurance or reinsurance obligations;
(iv) any off-balance sheet exposures of the undertaking;