Insurance - National Specific Templates

The Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) has introduced a number of reporting templates (“National Specific Templates”) which are deemed necessary to address requirements specific to the local market and/or the nature of insurance undertakings supervised in Ireland and which are not catered for in the set of Solvency II harmonised reporting templates produced by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (“EIOPA”). The templates and the undertakings to which they apply are listed in Tables 1 & Table 2 below.

Legal basis

S.I. No. 159/2016 - Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 (Section 48(1)) (Insurance Undertakings National Specific Templates Reporting Arrangements) Regulations 2016

Reporting Format & Technical Implementation

The only acceptable format for submission of National Specific Templates (NSTs) will be XBRL.

A decision was taken to extend the EIOPA Solvency II XBRL Taxonomy as the standard for reporting data submission between the Central Bank of Ireland and regulated insurance undertakings for Solvency II NSTs. The following products have been extended by the Central Bank.

• The Central Bank NST Data Point Model (DPM) is a structured representation of the data, identifying all the business concepts and its relations, as well as validation rules. The DPM contains all the relevant technical specifications necessary for developing an IT reporting solution (independent from the technical format).
• The Central Bank NST XBRL Taxonomy presents data items, business concepts, relations and validation rules described by the Central Bank NST DPM in the technical format of XBRL.

DPM and Taxonomy – Version 1.7.0 (Published December 2024)

DPM and Taxonomy - Version 1.6.0 (Published November 2023)

DPM and Taxonomy - Version 1.5.0 (Published January 2023)

DPM and Taxonomy - Version 1.4.0 (Published November 2019)

DPM and Taxonomy - Version 1.3.0 (Published October 2018)

• NST Release Notes - updated 18 December 2018
• NST DPM Documentation
• NST DPM Dictionary
• NST DPM Annotated Templates
• NST XBRL Taxonomy Documentation
• NST XLBR Taxonomy Package - updated 18 December 2018
• NST XBRL Test Instance Documents
• NST Validations - updated 18 December 2018
• List of Known Issues - updated 18 December 2018

DPM and Taxonomy - Version 1.2.0 (Published November 2017)

• NST Release Notes
• NST DPM Documentation
• NST DPM Dictionary
• NST DPM Annotated Templates
• NST XBRL Taxonomy Documentation
• NST XBRL Taxonomy Package
• NST XBRL Test Instance Documents
• NST Validations (Updated 15 December 2017)
• List of Known Issues (Updated 15 December 2017)

DPM and Taxonomy - Version 1.1.0 (Published on 5 October 2016 and Hotfix on 10 November 2016)

• NST Release Notes and NST Release Notes Hotfix
• NST DPM Documentation
• NST DPM Dictionary (updated 10 November 2016)
• NST DPM Annotated Templates
• NST XBRL Taxonomy Documentation
• NST XBRL Taxonomy Package (updated 19 December 2016)
• NST XBRL Test Instance Documents (updated 9 December 2016)
• List of Known Issues (updated 9 December 2016)
• List of Known Issues (updated 9 December 2016)

DPM and Taxonomy - Version 1.0.1 (Updated 11 March 2016)

• NST Release Notes
• NST DPM Documentation
• NST DPM Dictionary
• NST DPM Annotated Templates
• NST XBRL Taxonomy Documentation
• NST XBRL Taxonomy Package
• NST XBRL Test Instance Documents
• List of Known Issues
• NST Validations

Deprecated version of DPM & Taxonomy

You can access the previous versions of the DPM and Taxonomy using the hyperlinks provided in this document:

Table 1 - Insurance National Specific Templates

Statistical NST's

The Central Bank of Ireland also requires some additional detail to facilitate the translation of the supervisory based data into macro-economic statistical concepts. This information will allow for a much broader use of the data for national statistical purposes and reduce the requirements for future statistical returns.

This information is required from the entire Solvency II reporting population on a quarterly basis.

Please see these Statistics NSTs and accompanying logs in the Statistics Section, to be completed by the Solvency II reporting population. The relevant templates and notes are also available below for information.

The Statistics Division has also released a Q&A Document to assist undertakings in understanding the Statistical NST's.

Timeline for Submission

In 2016 the submission dates for the Statistical NST's are the same as the submission dates for quarterly and annual EIOPA harmonised templates. Therefore, the first NST’s due will be numbers 01, 02, 08, 09, 10, 12 & 13 in respect of the undertaking’s first quarterly reporting period, to be submitted 8 weeks after quarter-end.