B. whereas the mandate of the Committee of Inquiry set up pursuant to Decision 2006/469/EC was to: (1) investigate alleged contraventions or maladministration in the application of Council Directive 92/96/EEC of 10 November 1992 on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions
relating to direct life assurance and amending Directives 79/267/EEC and 90/619/EEC (third life
assurance Directive) , now codified by Directive 2002/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 concerning life
assurance , by the United Kingdom's competen
...[+++]t authorities in relation to the Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), notably as regards the regulatory regime and the monitoring of the financial health of insurance undertakings, including their state of solvency, the establishment of adequate technical provisions and the covering of those provisions by matching assets; (2) assess whether the Commission had properly fulfilled its duty to monitor the correct and timely transposition of Community law and identify whether systematic weaknesses contributed to the situation that had arisen; (3) assess allegations that the UK regulators consistently failed, over a number of years, and at least since 1989, to protect policy holders by exercising rigorous supervision of accounting and provisioning practices and the financial situation of Equitable Life; (4) assess the status of claims by non-UK European citizens and the adequacy of remedies available under UK and/or EU legislation for policy-holders from other Member States; and (5) make any proposals that it deemed to be necessary in this matter,B. considérant que la commission d'enquête constituée en vertu de la décision 2006/469/CE avait pour mandat: 1) d'enquêter sur les allégations d'infraction ou de mauvaise administration dans l'application de la directive 92/96/CEE du Conseil du 10 novembre 1992 portant coordination des dispositions législatives, réglementaires et administr
atives concernant l'assurance directe sur la vie, et modifiant les directives 79/267/CEE et 90/619/CEE (troisième directive assurance vie) , désormais codifiée par la directive 2002/83/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 5 novembre 2002 concernant l'assurance directe sur la vie , par les autorité
...[+++]s compétentes du Royaume-Uni dans le contexte de la compagnie d'assurances "Equitable Life", notamment en ce qui concerne le régime réglementaire et la surveillance de la santé financière des compagnies d'assurances, y compris leur degré de solvabilité, l'adoption de dispositions techniques appropriées et la couverture de ces dispositions par les avoirs correspondants