The Groupe was established in 1978 to bring together the actuarial associations in the European Union to represent the actuarial profession in discussion with the European Union institutions on existing and proposed EU legislation which has an impact on the profession.

The Groupe also now provides a forum for discussion amongst all actuarial associations throughout Europe. Thirty-four actuarial associations from thirty-one European countries are represented on the Groupe.

The 2008 Colloquium will be held in The Hague, Netherlands, on 21 November and not in Madrid in June as originally planned.
The provisional theme is a topic related to Solvency for Pension Funds. Further details will be made available here as soon as possible.

The 2008 Summer School will be held in Lyon, France, from 21-23 July. The topic will be Solvency II and ERM. Full details, including programme and registration form, are available here.

CEIOPS has published details of the QIS4 exercise. Full details are available on the Solvency II page. Updated 8 May 2008
Spreadsheet for solo entities added as separate download - updated 9 May 2008

The Groupe's responses to CEIOPS' Consultation Papers CP24 (Proportionality) and CP25 (Supervision of groups) are available on the Solvency II page.

CEIOPS' reports on:

• Initial review of key aspects of implementation of the IORP Directive
• Survey on fully funded, technical provisions and security mechanisms in the European occupational pension sector
• Establishment of Committee on Consumer Protection
• Recommendations to address the consequences of the differences in sectoral rules on the calculation of own funds of financial conglomerates
  (Produced by the Interim Working Committee on Financial Conglomerates (CEIOPS and CEBS jointly) at the request of the European Financial Conglomerates Committee).

E-Newsletter - November 2007