In the European Union, the existing insurance and reinsurance directives do not contain any provisions that place reliance on credit rating agencies. There is no explicit credit risk charge for the solvency margin in the Solvency I framework. The solvency margin in the Solvency I framework is not the sum of different capital charges related to different risks, but a single capital charge calibrated to reflect all the risks an insurance company faces. Nevertheless, the importance of credit quality is taken into account in the rules applying to asset allocation; but they are not based on the use of.
