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Article 133 Freedom of investment

DRAFT Text replaced Article 1 Amendments to Directive 2009/138/EC of the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2009/138/EC as regards proportionality, quality of supervision, reporting, long-term guarantee measures, macro-prudential tools, sustainability risks, group and cross-border supervision (COM(2021) 581 final / 2021/0295 (COD)) (updated 18 June 2024 with Information Note - Proposals under the ordinary legislative procedure expected to undergo the Corrigendum Procedure in the European Parliament (part I))

1. Member States shall not require insurance and reinsurance undertakings to invest in particular categories of asset.

2. Member States shall not subject the investment decisions of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking or its investment manager to any kind of prior approval or systematic notification requirements.

3. This Article is without prejudice to Member States' requirements restricting the types of assets or reference values to which policy benefits may be linked. Any such rules shall be applied only where the investment risk is borne by a policy holder who is a natural person and shall not be more restrictive than those set out in the Directive 85/611/EEC.