Recital 1

(1)In order to ensure that the equity index measures the market price of a diversified portfolio of equities which is representative of the nature of equities typically held by insurance and reinsurance undertakings, as required by Article 172 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35 ² , it should be composed of several existing equity indices for relevant markets. In order to make the levels of those equity indices comparable, the level of each index at the beginning of the appropriate period of time referred to in Article 106(2) of Directive 2009/138/EC should be set at 100 percentage points.