Annual Report • Mar 4, 2024
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Integrated Annual Report 2023 Línea Directa Aseguradora S.A.

| Consolidated balance sheet | |
|---|---|
| Consolidated statement of profit or loss | 4 |
| Consolidated statement of other comprehensive income | C |
| Consolidated statement of changes in equity | |
| Consolidated statement of cash tlows | 8 |
| Notes to the consolidated financial statements |
| 2. CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR 2023 | Company overview | 129 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business performance | 135 | ||
| Consolidated balance sheet | 2 | Main risks and uncertainties | 148 |
| Consolidated statement of profit or loss | 4 | Outlook for 2024 | 151 |
| Consolidated statement of other comprehensive income | 6 | Events after the reporting period | 152 |
| Consolidated statement of changes in equity | 7 | Environmental, safety and personnel issues | 153 |
| Consolidated statement of cash flows | 8 | Research, development and innovation activities | 161 |
| Notes to the consolidated financial statements | 9 | Other significant information | 163 |
| Complaints, ombudsman and other non-financial information |
166 | ||
| Annual corporate governance report, ICFR and Annual | 168 | ||
| Report on Director Remuneration | |||
| Consolidated Statement of Non-Financial Information | 169 |



Independent auditor´s report Consolidated annual account at December 31th, 2023

This version of our report is a free translation from the original, which was prepared in Spanish. All possible care has been taken to ensure that the translation is an accurate representation of the original. However, in all matters of interpretation of information, views or opinions, the original language version of our report takes precedence over this translation.
To the shareholders of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros
Opinion
We have audited the consolidated annual accounts of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros (the Parent company) and its subsidiaries (the Group), which comprise the statement of financial position as at 31 December 2023, and the statement of profit or loss, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity, cash flow statement and related notes, all consolidated, for the year then ended.
In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated annual accounts present fairly, in all material respects, the equity and financial position of the Group as at 31 December 2023, as well as its financial performance and cash flows, all consolidated, for the year then ended, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union (IFRS-EU) and other provisions of the financial reporting framework applicable in Spain.
We conducted our audit in accordance with legislation governing the audit practice in Spain. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the consolidated annual accounts section of our report.
We are independent of the Group in accordance with the ethical requirements, including those relating to independence, that are relevant to our audit of the consolidated annual accounts in Spain, in accordance with legislation governing the audit practice. In this regard, we have not rendered services other than those relating to the audit of the accounts, and situations or circumstances have not arisen that, in accordance with the provisions of the aforementioned legislation, have affected our necessary independence such that it has been compromised.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the consolidated annual accounts of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the consolidated annual accounts as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores, S.L., Torre PwC, Pº de la Castellana 259 B, 28046 Madrid, España Tel.: +34 915 684 400 / +34 902 021 111, Fax: +34 915 685 400, www.pwc.es 1

Valuation of liabilities for incurred claims in the motor segment
The Group engages in non-life insurance activities, mainly in the motor, home, and medical assistance lines.
The group proceeds to record the liabilities associated with insurance contracts in accordance with IFRS17 "Insurance Contracts" principles, which replaces IFRS 4 as of January 1, 2023; being the transition effective date to the new accounting regulations on January 1, 2022. These obligations are presented in the consolidated balance sheet, under the headings "Liabilities for remaining coverage" and "Liabilities for incurred claims", in accordance with the premium allocation approach (PAA).
The valuation of liabilities for incurred claims comprises future estimated cash flows from the claims incurred that have not been paid at the end and the risk adjustment derived from the uncertainty associated with the nonfinancial assumptions used to estimate such future cash flows.
For the determination of these liabilities and given their nature, it is a complex estimate that, in the case of the motor segment, is significantly influenced by the projection methods used, the settlement periods and the assumptions used by management, as well as the impact of the valuation of personal claims in accordance with applicable regulations. For these reasons, the valuation of motor insurance provision for claims is considered as a key audit matter.
See notes 2 e), 3 I) and 11 a) and b) of the attached consolidated annual accounts corresponding to the year 2023.
We gained an understanding of the process for estimating and registering the liabilities for incurred claims in the motor segment, which included understanding and evaluating the internal control process, the relevant IT systems, and the most relevant assumptions. Our procedures, in which we have engaged a team of actuarial specialists, have focused on aspects such us:
In our procedures above, we obtained sufficient appropriate audit evidence to support the estimates of management regarding this matter.
Other information comprises only the consolidated management report for the 2023 financial year, the formulation of which is the responsibility of the Parent company's directors and does not form an integral part of the consolidated annual accounts.

Our audit opinion on the consolidated annual accounts does not cover the consolidated management report. Our responsibility regarding the consolidated management report, in accordance with legislation governing the audit practice, is to:
On the basis of the work performed, as described above, we have verified that the information mentioned in section a) above has been provided in the manner required by applicable legislation and that the rest of the information contained in the consolidated management report is consistent with that contained in the consolidated annual accounts for the 2023 financial year, and its content and presentation are in accordance with applicable regulations.
Responsibility of the directors and the audit commission for the consolidated annual accounts
The Parent company's directors are responsible for the preparation of the accompanying consolidated annual accounts, such that they fairly present the consolidated equity, financial position and financial performance of the Group, in accordance with IFRS-EU and other provisions of the financial reporting framework applicable to the Group in Spain, and for such internal control as the aforementioned directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated annual accounts that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the consolidated annual accounts, the Parent company's directors are responsible for assessing the Group's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the aforementioned directors either intend to liquidate the Group or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Parent company's audit commission is responsible for overseeing the process of preparation and presentation of the consolidated annual accounts.
Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the consolidated annual accounts
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated annual accounts as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion.
Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with legislation governing the audit practice in Spain will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these consolidated annual accounts.

As part of an audit in accordance with legislation governing the audit practice in Spain, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:
We communicate with the Parent company's audit commission regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide the Parent company's audit commission with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements, including those relating to independence, and we communicate with the aforementioned those matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with the Parent company's audit commission, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the consolidated annual accounts of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters.
We describe these matters in our auditor's report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter.

We have examined the digital files of the European single electronic format (ESEF) of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros and its subsidiaries for the 2023 financial year that comprise an XHTML file which includes the consolidated annual accounts for the financial year and XBRL files with tagging performed by the entity, which will form part of the annual financial report.
The directors of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros are responsible for presenting the annual financial report for the 2023 financial year in accordance with the formatting and markup requirements established in the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/815 of 17 December 2018 of the European Commission (hereinafter the ESEF Regulation). In this regard, the Annual Corporate Governance Report and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration have been incorporated by reference in the consolidated management report.
Our responsibility is to examine the digital files prepared by the Parent company's directors, in accordance with legislation governing the audit practice in Spain. This legislation requires that we plan and execute our audit procedures in order to verify whether the content of the consolidated annual accounts included in the aforementioned digital files completely agrees with that of the consolidated annual accounts that we have audited, and whether the format and markup of these accounts and of the aforementioned files has been effected, in all material respects, in accordance with the requirements established in the ESEF Regulation.
In our opinion, the digital files examined completely agree with the audited consolidated annual accounts, and these are presented and have been marked up, in all material respects, in accordance with the requirements established in the ESEF Regulation.
Report to the audit commission of the Parent company
The opinion expressed in this report is consistent with the content of our additional report to the audit commission of the Parent company dated 29 February 2024.
The General Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting held on 30 March 2023 appointed us as auditors of the Group for a period of one year, for the year ended 31 December 2023.
Previously, we were appointed by resolution of the General Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting for a period of three years and we have audited the accounts continuously since the year ended 31 December 2016.
Services provided to the Group for services other than the audit of the accounts are disclosed in note 21.e) to the consolidated annual accounts.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores, S.L. (S0242)
Original in Spanish signed by Enrique Anaya Rico (23060)
29 February 2024

LÍNEA DIRECTA ASEGURADORA S.A.

Consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023
Prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union (EU-IFRS)
(in thousand euro)
| ASSETS | Notes | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-1) Cash and cash equivalents | 6 | 41,746 | 51,661 |
| A-2) Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss | 5 and 7a) | 53,998 | 48,818 |
| I. Equity instruments | 53,998 | 48,818 | |
| A-3) Financial assets at fair value through equity | 5 and 7a) | 823,345 | 690,846 |
| I. Equity instruments | 63,524 | 72,068 | |
| II. Debt securities | 759,821 | 618,778 | |
| A-4) Financial assets at amortised cost | 5 and 7a) | 15,456 | 22,373 |
| III. Deposits with credit institutions | 4,209 | 4,515 | |
| VI. Receivables on reinsurance business | 7,019 | 12,290 | |
| IX. Other receivables | 4,228 | 5,568 | |
| 1. Tax and social security receivable | 1,041 | 1,265 | |
| 2. Other receivables | 3,187 | 4,303 | |
| A-5) Hedging derivatives | 7a | 5,909 | 7,808 |
| A-6) Assets under reinsurance contracts | 11a) and b) | 31,939 | 21,956 |
| II. Non-life | 31,939 | 21,956 | |
| 2. Simplified approach (PAA) | 31,939 | 21,956 | |
| 2.1. Assets for remaining coverage | 6,166 | 6,466 | |
| 2.2. Assets for incurred claims | 25,773 | 15,490 | |
| A-7) Property, plant and equipment and investment property | 8 | 101,600 | 110,044 |
| I. Property, plant and equipment | 43,077 | 45,368 | |
| II. Investment property | 58,523 | 64,676 | |
| A-8) Intangible assets | 9 | 29,188 | 14,482 |
| III. Other intangible assets | 29,188 | 14,482 | |
| A-10) Tax assets | 13 | 14,635 | 26,861 |
| I. Current tax assets | 805 | 3,397 | |
| II. Deferred tax assets | 13,830 | 23,464 | |
| A-11) Any other assets | 7,506 | 7,577 | |
| III. Accruals | 4,881 | 3,326 | |
| IV. Other assets | 2,625 | 4,251 | |
| TOTAL ASSETS | 1,125,322 | 1,002,426 |
(in thousand euro)
| LIABILITIES | Notes | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-2) Financial liabilities at amortised cost | 7b) | 65,313 | 59,288 |
| III. Due on direct insurance business | 2,818 | 2,490 | |
| 1.Due to policyholders | 1,752 | 2,009 | |
| 2.Due to agents, brokers and intermediaries | 1,066 | 481 | |
| IV. Due on reinsurance business | 1,351 | 1,363 | |
| IX. Other debts | 61,144 | 55,435 | |
| 1. Taxes and social security payable | 15,221 | 15,520 | |
| 3. Other debts | 45,923 | 39,915 | |
| A-4) Liabilities under insurance contracts | 11a) and b) | 715,311 | 610,282 |
| II. Non-life | 715,311 | 610,282 | |
| 2. Simplified approach (PAA) | 715,311 | 610,282 | |
| 2.1. Liabilities for remaining coverage | 339,352 | 325,056 | |
| 2.2. Liabilities for incurred claims | 375,959 | 285,226 | |
| A-5) Non-technical provisions | 375 | 780 | |
| III. Other non-technical provisions | 12 | 375 | 780 |
| A-6) Tax liabilities | 13 | 31,047 | 31,459 |
| I. Current tax liabilities | 11,384 | - | |
| II. Deferred tax liabilities | 19,663 | 31,459 | |
| A-7) Other liabilities | 241 | 286 | |
| III. Other liabilities | 241 | 286 | |
| TOTAL LIABILITIES | 812,287 | 702,095 | |
| B-1) Equity | 14 | 330,087 | 324,243 |
| I. Share capital | 43,537 | 43,537 | |
| 1. Subscribed capital | 43,537 | 43,537 | |
| III. Reserves | 291,584 | 271,079 | |
| 1. Legal and bylaw reserves | 9,046 | 9,045 | |
| 2. Other reserves | 282,538 | 262,034 | |
| IV. (Treasury shares) | (644) | (1,018) | |
| VII. Profit/(loss) for the year | (4,390) | 63,126 | |
| VIII. (Interim dividend) | - | (52,481) | |
| B-2) Valuation adjustments | 14 | (17,052) | (23,912) |
| I. Financial assets at fair value through equity | (18,226) | (29,856) | |
| II. Changes in fair value of liabilities for insurance and reinsurance contracts | 1,174 | 5,944 | |
| TOTAL EQUITY | 313,035 | 300,331 | |
| TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | 1,125,322 | 1,002,426 |
(in thousand euro)
| NON-LIFE STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS | Notes | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| INCOME FROM INSURANCE SERVICES | 16 | 960,266 | 925,444 |
| Income from contracts measured under the premium allocation approach (PAA) | 960,266 | 925,444 | |
| EXPENSES FROM INSURANCE SERVICE | (995,577) | (878,910) | |
| Expenses for claims incurred | 16 | (995,577) | (878,910) |
| 1. Benefits and expenses incurred | (920,105) | (852,032) | |
| 2. Change in provision for claims incurred (+/-) | (76,837) | (27,703) | |
| 3. Losses on onerous contract groups and reversals for such losses | 1,365 | 825 | |
| RESULT OF INSURANCE CONTRACTS | (35,311) | 46,534 | |
| Income from reinsurance recoverables | 20,575 | 16,461 | |
| Reinsurance expenses | (23,489) | (25,865) | |
| RESULT OF REINSURANCE CONTRACTS | (2,914) | (9,404) | |
| INSURANCE TECHNICAL RESULT | (38,225) | 37,130 | |
| FINANCE INCOME | 7.a.3) | 50,249 | 68,906 |
| 1. Income from financial investments | 27,900 | 27,767 | |
| 2. Application of value adjustments for investments | 12 | 13,631 | 20,843 |
| 3. Gains/(losses) on realisation of investments | 2,743 | 12,647 | |
| 4. Income from property, plant and equipment and investment property | 5,927 | 4,380 | |
| 5. Positive exchange rate and conversion differences | 48 | 3,269 | |
| FINANCE COSTS | 7.a.3) | (16,257) | (27,059) |
| 6.1 Value adjustments for investments | (11,791) | (20,843) | |
| 6.2 Losses on investments | (2,579) | (5,464) | |
| 6.5 Expenses from property, plant and equipment and property investments | (1,527) | (1,250) | |
| 6.6 Negative exchange rate and conversion differences | (360) | 498 | |
| NET INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS | 33,992 | 41,847 | |
| 7. FINANCIAL INCOME/(EXPENSES) FOR ISSUED INSURANCE AGREEMENTS | (4,827) | 437 | |
| 8. FINANCIAL INCOME/(EXPENSES) FROM REASSURANCE AGREEMENTS HELD | 181 | (12) | |
| FINANCIAL RESULT | 29,346 | 42,272 | |
| NET INCOME FROM INSURANCE AND INVESTMENTS | (8,879) | 79,402 |
(in thousand euro)
| OTHER ACTIVITIES | Notes | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSURANCE RESULT | (8,879) | 79,402 | |
| OTHER INCOME | 18 | 6,141 | 7,557 |
| Other income | 6,141 | 7,557 | |
| OTHER EXPENSES Other expenses |
(3,809) (3,809) |
(3,397) (3,397) |
|
| SUBTOTAL (PROFIT OR LOSS FROM OTHER ACTIVITIES) | 2,332 | 4,160 | |
| PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE TAX | (6,547) | 83,562 | |
| Income tax | 13 | 2,157 | (20,436) |
| PROFIT/(LOSS) FOR THE YEAR | (4,390) | 63,126 | |
| Profit/(loss) attributable to the Parent Company | (4,390) | 63,126 | |
| Profit/(loss) attributable to non-controlling interests | - | - | |
| Basic earnings per share (in euro) Diluted earnings per share (in euro) |
15 15 |
0.00 0.00 |
0.06 0.06 |
(in thousand euro)
| Notes | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| Profit/(loss) for the year | (4,390) | 63,126 |
| Other comprehensive income | 18,363 | (67,279) |
| Other comprehensive income - Items that will not be reclassified to profit or loss for the period - Financial assets at fair value through equity 1. Gains/(losses) on valuation adjustments 2. Income tax Other comprehensive income - Items that can be reclassified later to |
5,363 6,071 (708) |
- - - |
| profit or loss Financial assets at fair value through equity |
13,000 | (67,279) |
| 1. Gains/(losses) on valuation adjustments 2. Amounts transferred to the consolidated statement of profit or loss |
21,250 21,026 |
(97,622) (86,672) |
| Allocations of interest rate adjustments to equity for insurance and | 224 | (10,950) |
| reinsurance contracts 1. Gains/(losses) on valuation adjustments Income tax |
(4,770) (4,770) (3,480) |
5,943 5,943 24,400 |
| 8 Total other comprehensive income |
18,363 | (67,279) |
| Total comprehensive income for the year, net of tax | 13,973 | (4,153) |
The English version is a translation of the original in Spanish made by Linea Directa Aseguradora, S.A on his sole responsibility and shall not be considered official. In case of discrepancy, the Spanish version shall prevail
Consolidated statement of changes in equity for the year ended 31 December 2023
(in thousand euro)
| Notes | Share capital (Note 14) |
Reserves (Note 4a) |
Treasury shares (Notes 14c and 22) |
Consolidated profit or loss for the period |
(Interim dividend) (Note 14 d) |
Valuation adjustments (Note 14 f) |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43,537 | 260,145 | (1,247) | 110,137 | (77,664) | 43,367 | 378,275 | |
| - | 285 | - | - | - | 285 | ||
| 43,537 | 260,430 | (1,247) | 110,137 | (77,664) | 43,367 | 378,560 | |
| - | - | - | 63,126 | - | (67,279) | (4,153) | |
| - | - | 229 | (21,459) | (52,481) | - | (73,711) | |
| - | - | - | (52,481) | - | (73,940) | ||
| - | - | 229 | - | - | 229 | ||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| - | 10,649 | - | (88,678) | 77,664 | - | (365) | |
| - | (365) | - | - | - | (365) | ||
| - | 11,014 | - | 77,664 | - | - | ||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 43,537 | 271,079 | (1,018) | 63,126 | (52,481) | (23,912) | 300,331 | |
| - (21,459) - - - (88,678) |
| Adjusted balance at 1 January 2023 | 43,537 | 271,079 | (1,018) | 63,126 | (52,481) | (23,912) | 300,331 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFRS 9 transition adjustments | - | 8,082 | - | - | - | (8,265) | (183) | |
| Adjusted balance at 1 January 2023 | 43,537 | 279,161 | (1,018) | 63,126 | (52,481) | (32,177) | 300,148 | |
| Total recognised income/(expense) | - | 3,238 | - | (4,390) | - | 15,125 | 13,973 | |
| Transactions with owners or mutual members | - | - | 374 | (1,090) | - | - | (716) | |
| Distribution of dividends or payments due to mutual members | 15.d) | - | - | - | (1,090) | - | - | (1,090) |
| Transactions with treasury shares or holdings (net) | - | - | 374 | - | - | - | 374 | |
| Capital increases or mutual fund | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Other changes in equity | - | 9,185 | - | (62,036) | 52,481 | - | (370) | |
| Payments based on equity instruments | - | (324) | - | - | - | - | (324) | |
| Transfers between equity items | - | 9,555 | - | (62,036) | 52,481 | - | - | |
| Other changes | - | (46) | - | - | - | - | (46) | |
| Balance at 31 December 2023 | 43,537 | 291,584 | (644) | (4,390) | - | (17,052) | 313,035 |
(in thousand euro)
| Notes | 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASH FLOWS FROM/(USED IN) OPERATING ACTIVITIES | |||
| Insurance activities | |||
| Proceeds from premiums on direct insurance, coinsurance and accepted reinsurance | 969,982 | 941,666 | |
| Proceeds from ceded reinsurance | 6,344 | 5,301 | |
| Reimbursements of claims Other proceeds from operating activities |
28,307 (1,808) |
31,078 (4,653) |
|
| Total proceeds from insurance activities | 1,002,825 | 973,392 | |
| Payments for direct insurance, coinsurance and accepted reinsurance | (704,051) | (634,169) | |
| Payments for ceded reinsurance | (14,090) | (16,973) | |
| Payments for intermediaries Other payments for operating activities |
(13,468) (216,622) |
(16,846) (249,655) |
|
| Total payments for insurance activities | (948,231) | (917,643) | |
| Other operating activities | |||
| Proceeds from other operating activities | 6,376 | 9,507 | |
| Total proceeds from other operating activities | 6,376 | 9,507 | |
| Payments for other operating activities | (1,031) | (627) | |
| Total payments for other operating activities | (1,031) | (627) | |
| Income tax | |||
| Income tax collected/(paid) | 2,550 | 6,255 | |
| Total income tax collected/(paid) | 2,550 | 6,255 | |
| Total net cash flows from operating activities | 62,489 | 70,884 | |
| CASH FLOWS FROM/(USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES Proceeds from investing activities |
|||
| Property, plant and equipment | - | ||
| Investment property | 4,930 | 4,223 | |
| Intangible assets | 1,478 | ||
| Financial instruments | 689,186 | 287,666 | |
| Interest received | 29,367 | 24,704 | |
| Dividends collected | 3,360 | 2,871 | |
| Total proceeds from investing activities | 728,321 | 319,464 | |
| Payments for investing activities | |||
| Property, plant and equipment | (1,482) | (1,978) | |
| Investment property | (1,356) | (833) | |
| Intangible assets | (20,210) | (4,838) | |
| Financial instruments | (770,649) | (254,898) | |
| Other payments for investing activities | (3,957) | (4,068) | |
| Total payments for investing activities | (797,654) | (266,615) | |
| Total net cash flows from investing activities | (69,333) | 52,849 | |
| CASH FLOWS FROM/(USED IN) FINANCING ACTIVITIES | |||
| Proceeds from financing activities | |||
| Disposal of own shares | - | 257 | |
| Other proceeds from financing activities | 400 | 30,651 | |
| Total proceeds from financing activities | 400 | 30,908 | |
| Payments for financing activities | |||
| Dividends to shareholders | 14d) | (1,090) | (73,940) |
| Acquisition of own and parent company securities | 14c) | (348) | (384) |
| Other payments for financing activities | (2,256) | (148,212) | |
| Total payments for financing activities | (3,694) | (222,536) | |
| Total net cash flows from/(used in) financing activities | (3,294) | (191,628) | |
| Effects of exchange rate changes | 223 | 3,768 | |
| Total increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | (9,915) | (64,127) | |
| Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year Cash and cash equivalents at end of year |
6 6 |
51,661 41,746 |
115,788 51,661 |
| Components of cash and cash equivalents at end of year | |||
| Cash and banks | 38,941 | 35,683 | |
| Other financial assets Total cash and cash equivalents at end of year |
6 | 2,805 41,746 |
15,978 51,661 |
The Línea Directa Group consists of Línea Directa Aseguradora S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros and its subsidiaries. Línea Directa Aseguradora S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros (the "Parent") was incorporated in Madrid on 13 April 1994 under the name of "Bankinter Seguros Directos, S.A. Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros". On 6 July 1994, it changed its name to "Bankinter Aseguradora Directa,
S.A. Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros". The decision was reached at the Annual General Meeting held on 26 January 1995 to change its name to "Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros".
The Parent engages in insurance and reinsurance activities in the motor, home and other non-life segments, all of which it is authorised to carry out by the Spanish Directorate General of Insurance and Pension Funds. On 19 July 2017, the Directorate granted authorisation to operate also within the health line of the healthcare segment. The Parent started selling health insurance products in October 2017.
Its registered office is at calle Isaac Newton 7, Tres Cantos (Madrid), Spain. The Parent operates entirely in Spain and Portugal.
With respect to Portugal, the Group was authorised to operate in the Other insurance segment on 25 September 2017. As this line of activity was residual and immaterial in 2023 and 2022, it has not been deemed relevant to break down the information by geographical area.
The Parent directs and manages its stakes in other entities by organising human and material resources accordingly. The Parent operates in Motor, Home, Health and Other insurance business, as described in Note 3b). Its business distribution channels are mainly telephone and internet sales.
The Parent's shares have been listed and traded on the continuous market of the Madrid Stock Exchange since 29 April 2021. Bankinter, S.A. holds a 17.4% stake in the Parent, while the remaining 82.6% was distributed among its shareholders by delivering one share in Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros for each Bankinter share held (Note 14).
The subsidiaries of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros are as follows: Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros, Línea Directa Asistencia, S.L.U., Motoclub LDA, S.L.U., Centro Avanzado de Reparaciones, S.L.U., Ambar Medline, S.L.U. LDActivos, S.L.U. and LDA Reparaciones (up to November 2023), S.L.U, as described in Note 4, all of which are non-insurance support or investment companies.
In view of the Group's business activities, it has no environmental liabilities, expenses, assets, provisions or contingencies that could be material in respect of its equity, financial position or results.
The 2023 consolidated financial statements accounts were authorised for issue by the Board of Directors on 29 February 2024 and are pending approval by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting. However, it is the understanding of the directors that such annual accounts will be approved as presented.
These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the applicable regulatory framework for financial reporting, which is as follows:
The International Financial Reporting Standards adopted by the European Union in the form of EU Regulations, in accordance with Regulation 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 July 2002 and its subsequent amendments (EU-IFRS).
On the IFRS Interpretations Committee (IFRS-IC).
Regulatory provisions prescribed by the Spanish Directorate General of Insurance and Pension Funds, including the Framework Document in relation to the accounting regime for insurance entities relating to IFRS 4: Insurance Contracts, published on 22 December 2004.
The Spanish Commercial Code (Código de Comercio) and other commercial legislation.
The Law and Regulations on the Organisation, Supervision and Solvency of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies (hereinafter referred to by its Spanish acronym of "ROSSEAR" when referring to the Regulations), as enacted by Law 20/2015 and Royal Decree 1060/2015, respectively, and other provisions issued by the Spanish Directorate General for Insurance and Pension Funds.
The non-repealed articles of the Regulation on the Organisation and Supervision of Private Insurance (hereinafter, "ROSSP", or the "Regulation"), enacted by Royal Decree 2486/1998, including all partial modifications thereto.
Formatting and marking requirements set out in the European Commission Delegated Regulation EU 2018/815.
All mandatory accounting principle with a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements have been duly applied.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared from the Group's accounting records and are presented in accordance with the applicable consolidated financial reporting framework and, in particular, with the accounting principles and criteria contained therein, so as to provide a true and fair view of the Group's consolidated equity, consolidated financial position, consolidated earnings and consolidated cash flows for financial year 2023.
Derivative financial instruments and financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income.
Non-current assets and disposal groups held for sale are stated at the lower of carrying amount and fair value less costs of disposal.
There has been no early adoption of any standards or interpretations that have been approved by the European Commission but that were not yet in effect at year end 2023.
The consolidated financial statements are presented in thousands of euro, rounded off to the nearest thousand, which is the functional and presentation currency of the Parent and its Subsidiaries.
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS-EU requires significant accounting estimates, judgments and assumptions to be made during the process of applying the Group's accounting policies. There follows a summary of the aspects that involved a higher degree of judgement, complexity or where assumptions and estimates were significant in drawing up the consolidated financial statements.
While these estimates have been made on the basis of the best information available in relation to the events analysed at the balance sheet date, it is possible that future events may require these estimates to be modified (upwards or downwards) in subsequent years. Any resulting changes would be reflected in the corresponding consolidated statements of profit or loss and under the heading "Valuation adjustments" in the Group's equity.
The main estimates made by the Group's directors are as follows:
There were a number of changes implemented on 31 December 2023 with respect to the estimates made at the end of the 2022 financial year. These changes are due to the entry into force of IFRS 17 and are discussed extensively in section f) of this note.
Liabilities under insurance contracts [Note 3l)]:
Assets and liabilities relating to insurance contracts are recognised in accordance with the accounting policies set out in Note 3l). The Group also makes assumptions and estimates in the calculation of insurance contract liabilities.
On 29 December 2021, the General Directorate of Insurance and Pension Funds sent a resolution on the application file for a change in the statistical methodology used in the automotive sector, in which it authorised the Group to calculate the technical provisions of benefits in its Motor segment using the Merz & Wüthrich stochastic methodology, and the deterministic methodology of average cost required under local regulations as a contrast methodology. With the entry into force of IFRS 17, the Group will use Best Estimate assumptions for the calculation of incurred claims liabilities, projecting future cash flows consistently with Solvency II risk regulations. In the Motor and Home business segments, the methodology used is called 'Chain Ladder'; in the Health business segment the projection of benefit payments is made based on historical payment patterns detected in the records of each segment.
Risk adjustment will be calculated by applying a percentile methodology. In the Motor segment, calculations will be made using the Merz & Wüthrich stochastic methodology. In the Home and Health segments, calculations will be made using the standard deviation obtained by equating the 99.5% percentile to the sum of the Best Estimate and the SCR reserve. In all cases, the Group has decided to maintain an 85% percentile in calculating risk adjustment.
Income tax and recovery of tax credits [Note 3 w)]:
Under current legislation, taxes cannot be considered definitively settled until the duly submitted returns have been inspected by the tax authorities, or until the four-year limitation period has lapsed. In the opinion of the Group's directors, there are no contingencies that might result in any
further significant liabilities for the Group.
Impairment losses on certain assets [Note 3d), f), g) and h)]:
The Group analyses annually whether there are any indications of impairment on its assets, which are tested for impairment if and when any such indications exist. In particular, the provision for bad debts is calculated on the basis of the age of the invoices, with a different ratio applied for each age bracket. These brackets have been determined on the basis of the Group's experience and the mandatory accounting standards binding all insurance companies.
Useful life of intangible assets, property, plant and equipment, investment property [Note 3f) and h)]:
The useful lives of these assets have been calculated on the basis of the Group's directors' best estimate of the period over which they will generate income, taking into account the depreciation and amortisation effectively incurred in their operation, use and enjoyment.
The fair value of certain non-listed assets and liabilities [Note 3 d)]:
To determine the fair value of financial instruments when there is no price available in an active market, the Group's directors have made estimates using a valuation model or technique consistent with accepted market pricing methodology, while maximising the use of observable market data.
Determination of the lessee's incremental borrowing rate under IFRS 16:
The incremental borrowing rate has been used to determine the relevant rate for leases in which the Group acts as lessee. This is the rate of interest that a lessee would have to pay to borrow over a similar term (with similar conditions and levels of risk) the funds necessary to obtain an asset of a similar value to the right-of-use asset.
To determine the incremental borrowing rate, the Group:
The Group is exposed to possible future increases in variable lease payments based on a Consumer Price Index (CPI). These changes are not included in the lease liability until they take effect. When the lease payments are eventually updated based on this index, the lease liability is revalued and adjusted against the right-of-use asset.
CPI change in leases in which the Group acts as lessee did not have a significant impact on the Group during the reference periods.
The Group applied IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 for the first time as of 1 January 2023, which has led to a restatement of fiscal year 2022. The new standards entail changes in the recognition and measurement of insurance and reinsurance contracts and financial instruments. However, given the business segments in which the Group operates, and the nature and duration of the insurance contracts it markets and sells, these changes have not had a material impact on the Group's
consolidated financial statements, or on the management of the business or the Group's dividend policy. The recording and measurement methods applied as a consequence of the entry into force of these standards are reflected in Note 3d) & l).
The effective date of IFRS 9 was 1 January 2018. However, the Group elected to take advantage of the temporary exemption from the effective date of IFRS 9: Financial Instruments, as provided for in paragraphs 20A – 20N of IFRS 4: Insurance Contracts, as it met the criteria to do so.
By availing itself of this exemption, the date of application of IFRS 9 is the effective date of IFRS 17: Insurance Contracts, which, according to the decision of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), is 1 January 2023.
The Group has conducted the necessary analysis to be able to apply this deferral and has corroborated its eligibility by confirming that the percentage of the total carrying amount of its liabilities connected with insurance relative to the total carrying amount of all its liabilities has been greater than 90%, and that the Group does not engage in significant activity unconnected with insurance, as indicated in paragraph 20D of IFRS 4. This analysis was performed on the basis of information for the years ended 31 December 2021 and 2022.
IFRS 9 replaces IAS 39, but has a similar scope. IFRS 9 contains principles for the financial reporting of financial assets and financial liabilities in order to present relevant and useful information to users of financial statements for their assessment of the amounts, timing and uncertainty of future cash flows.
IFRS 9 establishes a business model system based on how financial assets are used and the characteristics of their cash flows.
Under IFRS 9 there are three measurement categories, each suited for different instruments:
Interest, impairment and exchange differences generated by the financial assets classified in this portfolio are recognised in the statement of profit or loss.
Interest, impairment and exchange differences generated by the financial assets classified in this portfolio are recognised in the statement of profit or loss.
Gains and losses arising from the revaluation of these assets are recognised in equity, though they may be recycled to profit or loss at the time of sale.
fair value through profit or loss unless it is measured at amortised cost or at fair value through other comprehensive income. This category would include all financial assets that do not pass the SPPI (solely payments of principal and interest) test.
In view of the definition of these categories, an analysis of the impact of IFRS 9 has been carried out at 31 December 2022, finding that the impact is not significant due to the characteristics of the Group's investment portfolio.
The Group's financial assets are predominantly debt securities, which already passed the SPPI test.
As regards other financial assets, the most significant change is the recognition of changes in the valuation of equity instrument not considered shares under IFRS 9 (such as investment funds and private equity holdings), which will be made through the consolidated statement of profit or loss due to the characteristics of such assets, whereas under IAS 39 this was carried out through adjustments through changes of value in equity.
However, IFRS 9 states that shares may be measured at fair value through other comprehensive income without recycling to profit or loss (irrevocable option), or alternatively at fair value through profit or loss, depending on the choice of business model. The Group has assessed the impact of this choice and has decided to apply the irrevocable option in the case of shares.
Lastly, there will be no change in the measurement of derivatives. As a result, changes will continue to be recognised in the consolidated statement of recognised income and expense.
Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1491 of 8 September 2022, amending Regulation (EC) No 1126/2008 as regards International Financial Reporting Standard 17, allows companies applying IFRS 9 and IFRS 17 for the first time to apply the classification overlay provided for in paragraphs C28B to C28E of IFRS 9. This means that companies may present comparative information as if the classification and measurement requirements of IFRS 9 had been applied to that financial asset. However, the impairment requirements in Section 5.5 of IFRS 9 need not be applied and any difference between the carrying amount of the previous financial asset and the carrying amount at the date of transition resulting from applying the classification overlay is recognised in equity at the date of transition.
The Group has chosen to apply the classification overlay for financial instruments under IFRS 9 and to avail itself of the option not to restate its financial assets, and therefore not to include the effects of IFRS 9 in the financial statements for year 2022 for comparison with 2023, pursuant to paragraph 7.2.15. of IFRS 9.
In relation to the suspension of the deferral of the application of IFRS 9 for insurance activity, the Group has decided not to restate comparative information for financial assets from prior periods, as provided for under the standard. However, as the transition date to IFRS 17 for the Group is 1 January 2022, the Group has presented its financial assets using the IFRS 9 naming conventions to improve comparative information for users of the financial statements. This approach allows comparative information for financial instruments to be presented in the initial application of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 based on the expected classification under IFRS 9, as if the classification and measurement requirements of IFRS 9 had been applied. This presentation approach can only be applied in comparative periods that have been restated for IFRS 17. In the case of the Group, this is only 2022. This has led to some changes in the classification of certain items in the consolidated financial statements (as explained in the section on transition adjustments).
This standard replaces IFRS 4: Insurance Contracts, which allows for the continued use of local accounting practices and has resulted in insurance contracts being accounted for differently across jurisdictions. This standard, endorsed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), was published on 23 November 2021 in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). IFRS 17 sets out principles for the recognition, presentation and disclosure of insurance contracts so that an entity provides relevant and reliable information to enable users of financial information to assess the effect that these contracts have on the entity's financial statements.
The adoption of IFRS 17 implies amendments to the following standards or interpretations of standards: IFRS 1: First-time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards, IFRS 3: Business Combinations, IFRS 5: Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations, IFRS 7: Financial Instruments: Disclosures, IFRS 9: Financial Instruments, IFRS 15: Revenue from Contracts with Customers, International Accounting Standard (IAS) 1: Presentation of Financial Statements, IAS 7: Statement of Cash Flows, IAS 16: Property, Plant and Equipment, IAS 19: Employee Benefits, IAS 28: Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures, IAS 32: Financial Instruments: Presentation, IAS 36: Impairment of Assets, IAS 37: Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets, IAS 38: Intangible Assets, IAS 40: Investment Property, and SIC Interpretation 27: Evaluating the Substance of Transactions in the Legal Form of a Lease.
IFRS 17 provides a comprehensive approach to accounting for insurance contracts. It seeks to ensure that companies disclose, in their financial statements, relevant information that fairly represents insurance contracts. This information provides users of financial statements with a sound basis for assessing the effect of insurance contracts on the company's financial position, financial performance and cash flows.
IFRS 17 applies to insurance contracts, reinsurance contracts and investment contracts with discretionary participation for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023, which is the date of first application, although comparative information with a transition date of 1 January 2022 is required.
In 2022, the Group completed the definition of the accounting policies to be applied under IFRS 17 and the installation and adaptation of the tools needed to apply them correctly. In 2022, the Group performed monthly closes under IFRS 17 in parallel with IFRS 4, to enable it to prepare consolidated financial statements for comparative purposes in 2023.
IFRS 17 applies for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023, although comparative disclosures will be mandatory. This means that:
In this respect, the Group has applied the changes retrospectively, for both insurance contracts in direct business and ceded reinsurance contracts.
The Group has analysed the impacts of the application of IFRS 17. The impacts identified for the transition at 1 January 2022 can be grouped into:
The impact on the transition date of 1 January 2022 is as follows:
| In thousand euro | 1 January 2022 |
|---|---|
| Adjustments due to the adoption of IFRS 17 | 379 |
| Deferred tax liabilities | (95) |
| Estimated after-tax transition impact | 285 |
The impact after the tax effect of € 285 thousand is recognised under "III. Reserves 2. Other Reserves" in comparative equity at 31 December 2022.
There are certain differences between the standards (IFRS 17 and IFRS 4) in the way that information is presented on the balance sheet and, to a lesser extent, in the statement of profit or loss. However, as mentioned above, as the Group applies the Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) to all insurance and reinsurance contracts, the changes are less significant than they would have been had it applied the General Approach or the Variable Fee Approach. It should be noted:
In respect of balance sheet insurance liabilities:
a) For future services, as the Group has opted to apply the simplified PAA method, the treatment is similar to the previous regulatory framework, consisting of the accrual of the premium through the unearned premium provision.
b) In respect of past services, future cash flows are discounted and a non-financial risk adjustment is included when measuring the liability for incurred claims. In the above framework, this methodology is similar to the one the Group had been using for the motor segment, as it applies a statistical methodology approved by the regulator, based on the projection of future flows at a percentile always above the best estimate, although flows are not discounted over time and there is no explicit risk adjustment. With respect to the
home and health segments where the Group had been applying a case-by-case claim valuation method, the new valuation model will signify a change in the measurement approach, although no material effects are expected. The method for calculating the liability for incurred claims is the same under both the general model (BBA) and the Premium Allocation Approach (PAA).
c) The same criteria as for direct insurance is used for reinsurance contracts held, for both the liability for remaining coverage and the liability for incurred claims.
d) Therefore, in the balance sheet, the changes in the previous sections imply, in terms of presentation on both the assets and liabilities side, that the headings "Reinsurers' share of technical provisions" and "Technical provisions" are renamed "Assets/liabilities under reinsurance contracts held" and "Assets/liabilities under insurance contracts issued", respectively.
A reconciliation of the balance sheet at 31 December 2022 under IFRS 4 and IFRS 17 is provided below with explanatory notes. As previously mentioned, the transition from IAS 39 to IFRS 9 on financial instruments has no quantitative effect on the restatement of the transition balance sheet but does have a quantitative effect on the classifications of the headings.
| IFRS 4 ASSETS | Note | Difference | IFRS 17 ASSETS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 51,661 | - | 51,661 A-1) Cash and cash equivalents | ||
| 48,818 | 48,818 | A-2) Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss |
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| 48,818 | 48,818 I. Equity instruments | ||||
| Available-for-sale financial assets | 739,664 | (48,818) | 690,846 | A-3) Financial assets at fair value through equity | |
| I. Equity instruments | a) | 120,886 | (48,818) | 72,068 I. Equity instruments | |
| II. Debt securities | 618,778 | - | 618,778 II. Debt securities | ||
| Loans and receivables | 123,448 | (101,075) | 22,373 A-4) Amortised cost | ||
| II. Deposits with credit institutions | 4,515 | - | 4,515 III. Deposits with credit institutions | ||
| III. Receivables on direct insurance business | b) | 58,524 | (58,524) | - | V. Receivables on direct insurance business |
| 1. Policyholders | 58,524 | (58,524) | - | 1. Policyholders | |
| IV. Receivables on reinsurance business | 12,290 | - | 12,290 VI. Receivables on reinsurance business | ||
| V. Other receivables | c) | 48,119 | (42,551) | 5,568 IX. Other receivables | |
| 1. Tax and social security receivable | 1,265 | - | 1,265 | 1. Tax and social security receivable | |
| 2. Other receivables | 46,854 | (42,552) | 4,302 | 2. Other receivables | |
| Hedging derivatives | 7,808 | - | 7,808 A-5) Hedging derivatives | ||
| Reinsurers' share of technical provisions | d) | 19,263 | 2,693 | 21,956 | A-6) Reinsurers' share. Non-life. Simplified approach (PAA) |
| I. Provision for unearned premiums | 4,554 | 1,912 | 6,466 2.1. Assets for remaining coverage | ||
| II. Provision for claims | 14,709 | 781 | 15,490 2.2 Assets for incurred claims | ||
| Property, plant and equipment and investment property | 110,044 | - | 110,044 A-7) Property, plant and equipment and investment property |
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| Right-of-use assets | e) | 3,739 | (3,739) | ||
| Intangible assets | 14,482 | - | 14,482 A-8) Intangible assets | ||
| Tax assets | 26,861 | - | 26,861 A-10) Tax assets | ||
| I. Current tax assets | 3,397 | - | 3,397 I. Current tax assets | ||
| II. Deferred tax assets | 23,464 | - | 23,464 II. Deferred tax assets | ||
| Other assets | 98,445 | (90,868) | 7,577 A-11) Any other assets | ||
| I. Prepaid fees and other acquisition expenses | f) | 94,608 | (94,608) | - | |
| II. Accruals | 3,326 | - | 3,326 III. Accruals | ||
| III. Other assets | e) | 511 | 3,740 | 4,251 IV. Other assets | |
| TOTAL ASSETS | 1,195,415 | (192,989) | 1,002,426 TOTAL ASSETS |
| IFRS 4 LIABILITIES | Note | Difference | IFRS 17 LIABILITIES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt and accounts payable | 59,288 | - | 59,288 A-2) Amortised cost | |||
| I. Due on direct insurance business | 2,490 | - | 2,490 | III. Due on direct insurance business | ||
| 1. Due to policyholders | 2,009 | - | 2,009 1. Due to policyholders | |||
| 2. Due to agents, brokers and intermediaries | 481 | - | 481 2. Due to agents, brokers and intermediaries | |||
| II. Due on reinsurance business | 1,363 | - | 1,363 | IV. Due on reinsurance business | ||
| III. Lease liabilities | g) | 3,768 | (3,768) | - | ||
| IV. Other debts: | g) | 51,667 | 3,768 | 55,434 | IX. Other debts | |
| 1. Taxes and social security payable | 15,520 | - | 15,520 1. Taxes and social security payable | |||
| 3. Other debts | 36,147 | 3,768 | 39,915 3. Other debts | |||
| Technical provisions | 791,040 | (180,758) | 610,282 A-4) Technical provisions. Non-life (simplified approach) |
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| I. Provision for unearned premiums | h) | 470,783 | (145,726) | 325,057 2.1. Liabilities for remaining coverage | ||
| 470,783 | (150,179) | 320,604 2.1.1. Unearned premiums | ||||
| 4,453 | 4,453 2.1.2. Loss component | |||||
| II. Provision for unexpired risks | h) | 2,378 | (2,378) | - | ||
| III. Provision for claims | i) | 317,879 | (32,654) | 285,225 2.2. Liabilities for incurred claims | ||
| 264,741 2.2.1. Present value of cash flows | ||||||
| 20,484 2.2.1. Adjustment for non-financial risk | ||||||
| Non-technical provisions | 26,118 | (25,338) | 780 | |||
| II. Provisions for settlement agreements | j) | 25,338 | (25,338) | - | ||
| III. Other non-technical provisions | 780 | - | 780 III. Other non-technical provisions | |||
| Tax liabilities | m) | 28,182 | 3,277 | 31,459 A-6) Tax liabilities | ||
| I. Deferred tax liabilities | 28,182 | 3,277 | 31,459 II. Deferred tax liabilities | |||
| Other liabilities | 287 | - | 287 A-7) Other liabilities | |||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES | 904,915 | (202,819) | 702,096 TOTAL LIABILITIES | |||
| EQUITY | EQUITY | |||||
| Equity | k) | 320,356 | 3,887 | 324,243 B-1) Equity | ||
| I. Capital or mutual fund | 43,537 | - | 43,537 I. Capital or mutual fund | |||
| III. Reserves | 270,795 | 284 | 271,080 III. Reserves | |||
| 1. Legal and bylaw reserves | 9,046 | - | 9,046 | 1. Legal and bylaw reserves | ||
| 2. Other reserves | 261,749 | - | 261,749 | 4. Reserves at consolidated companies | ||
| 284 | 285 | 6. First application reserve | ||||
| IV. (Treasury shares) | (1,018) | - | (1,018) | IV. (Own and parent company equities) | ||
| VII. Profit/(loss) for the year | 59,523 | 3,603 | 63,126 VII. Profit/(loss) for the year attributable to the Parent Company |
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| VIII. (Interim dividend) | (52,481) | - | (52,481) | VIII. (Interim dividend) | ||
| Valuation adjustments: | (29,856) | 5,943 | (23,913) B-2) Valuation adjustments | |||
| I. Available-for-sale financial assets | (29,856) | (29,856) | I. Financial assets at fair value through equity | |||
| l) | - | 5,943 | 5,943 II. Other comprehensive income | |||
| - | 6,240 | 6,240 | 1. Valuation adjustments for insurance contracts | |||
| - | (297) | (297) | 2. Valuation adjustments for ceded reinsurance contracts | |||
| TOTAL EQUITY | 290,500 | 9,830 | 300,330 TOTAL EQUITY | |||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | 1,195,415 | (192,989) | 1,002,426 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY |
Notes describing the reconciliation and reclassification adjustments for assets and liabilities between IFRS 4 (previous balance sheet) and IFRS 17 (restated balance sheet) are provided below.
h). The reclassified amount corresponds to receivables from outstanding issued receipts such as premium fractions to be drawn.
IFRS 16 is reclassified in its entirety to the heading other debts "A-2) Amortized cost. IX Any other debts 3. Other debts
h) The heading "Technical provisions. I. Provision for unearned premiums" from the liabilities side of the previous balance sheet has been transferred to the liabilities side of the new balance sheet under the heading "A-4) Technical provisions. Non-life (simplified approach). 2.1 Liabilities for remaining coverage" A reconciliation of these two headings is provided in the following table:
| 470,783 I. Provision for unearned premiums | |
|---|---|
| (94,608) | I. Prepaid fees and other acquisition expenses |
| (58,524) | Receivables on insurance business. Policyholders |
| 2,952 Security surcharge | |
| 4,453 2.1.2. Loss component | |
| 325,056 2.1. Liabilities for remaining coverage |
| 317,879 III. Provision for claims |
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| (317,879) III. Provision for claims |
| 264,741 2.2.1 Present value of cash flows |
| 20,484 2.2.1 Adjustment for non-financial risk |
| 285,226 2.2 Liabilities for incurred claims |
and timing of cash flows arising from non-financial risk.
| Liabilities for claims incurred, gross | (6,039) |
|---|---|
| Liabilities for ceded claims incurred | 59 |
| Gross loss component | 77 |
| Ceded loss component | 997 |
| Impact of security surcharge and deferral | 102 |
| Total gross impact | (4,804) |
| Deferred tax | 1,201 |
| Total net impact | (3,603) |
i. The tax effect of the transition reserve at 1 January 2022, amounting to € 94 thousand, as described in the transition section.
ii. Tax effect of IFRS 17 adjustments for 2022 through profit or loss in the amount of € 1,201 thousand, as indicated in Note k).
iii. Tax effect of IFRS 17 adjustments for 2022 through other comprehensive income in equity rather than profit or loss, in the amount of € 1,982 thousand, as indicated in note l).
The consolidated statement of profit or loss under IFRS 17 presents, in summary form, the following items that apply to the Group based on the nature of its business and the applicable valuation
models (refer to the Annexes for more details):
This heading will show the provision of services arising from the group of insurance contracts, the amount of consideration to which the Group expects to be entitled in exchange for those services, i.e. the amount of premiums received.
Amounts related to changes in the liability for the remaining coverage and the allocation of the portion of the premium that relates to the recovery of the cash flows from the purchase of the insurance.
The Group applies the PAA, whereby the revenue from the insurance service measured under the PAA is similar to the earned premium concept under IFRS 4.
Insurance service expenses include claims and other attributable insurance service expenses incurred; amortisation of cash flows from the acquisition of insurance; changes that relate to past service (i.e. changes in cash flows relating to the liability for claims incurred); and losses on groups of contracts and reversals of those losses.
Under IFRS 4, this heading would include claims incurred and operating expenses.
Notably, the above revenue and expense headings of the insurance service: Do not include investment components
Do not include revenue and expenses related to reinsurance, as they have their own specific heading.
This heading shows income under ceded reinsurance contracts, counting ceded insurance premiums, ceded claims incurred and reinsurance commission, which under IFRS 4 were shown net of the direct insurance result under net earned premium, net claims incurred and net operating expenses, respectively.
Income from the insurance service less insurance service expense and income associated with reinsurance contracts held comprises total profit/(loss) from the insurance service. Due to the Group's decision to apply the PAA valuation method, this insurance service result is expected to be similar to the technical result without the current financial part under IFRS 4.
This sub-heading shows income obtained from the Group's financial instrument portfolio in the form of interest, dividends, changes in the fair value of financial assets measured at fair value through other comprehensive income, and realised gains/(losses) on assets measured at fair value through profit or loss, measured in accordance with IFRS 9.
This sub-heading shows the effect of the time value of money on the calculation of insurance liabilities. More precisely, as regards the effect of updating the discount rate for the purpose of calculating the liability for claims incurred, which includes the present value of the associated future cash flows and the non-financial risk adjustment pertaining to the portfolios of contracts measured
using the PAA, the Group has preliminarily opted to disaggregate this effect between other comprehensive income and the statement of profit or loss.
This heading shows income and expenses not attributable to insurance contracts. Profit before tax
This heading will be the sum of profit from the insurance service, net gains/(losses) from investments, insurance financial income and expenses, and other income and other expenses.
Post-tax profit comprises pre-tax profit less the income tax expense (see note 4).
Main parallels and differences with regards to the Solvency II framework
The implementation within the Group of the Solvency II framework, which came into force on 1 January 2016, has facilitated the implementation of IFRS 17 by unlocking synergies in the organisation of the reporting databases and the common approach of cash flow projections at present value on which both frameworks are based, in order to obtain a balance sheet at market value (both for assets and liabilities) and avoid accounting asymmetries. It should not be forgotten that the IFRS are of supplementary use for the measurement of assets and liabilities under Solvency II.
Given the segments in which the Group operates and the nature of the groups of insurance and reinsurance contracts that make up its portfolio, the granularity, level of aggregation and contract boundaries under IFRS 17 are very similar to those used under Solvency II.
The Solvency II balance sheet is calculated for LDA standalone, as the Group is not required to present solvency information at the consolidated level, whereas under IFRS 17 information is presented at the consolidated level only.
The balance sheet is similar under both measurement standards, although in relation to insurance liabilities:
As the Group will be measuring all of its insurance and reinsurance contracts under the PAA, the main alternative performance measures will remain the same as under IFRS 4.
The combined ratio, adapted to IFRS 17, is not significantly different to that under IFRS 4.
There were no changes in accounting criteria in the period compared to the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2022, other than the entry into force of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9, as described in section f).
"IFRS 17: Insurance Contracts 1": IFRS 17 replaces "IFRS 4: Insurance Contracts", which permitted a wide variety of accounting practices. The new standard fundamentally changes the accounting of all entities that issue insurance contracts and investment contracts with discretionary participation features. In June 2020, the IASB amended the standard, developing specific amendments and clarifications to facilitate the implementation of the new standard, although without changing the core principles of the standard.
The standard applies to annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. Earlier application is permitted if "IFRS 9: Financial Instruments" is applied on or before the date IFRS 17 is applied.
The impact of this is discussed in section f) of this note.
The IASB has published an amendment to IFRS 17 that introduces modifications with limited scope to the transition requirements of "IFRS 17: Insurance Contracts". This does not affect any other requirements of IFRS 17. The transition requirements for IFRS 17 and "IFRS 9: Financial Instruments" are different. These differences could lead to one-off accounting mismatches between financial assets and insurance contract liabilities for some insurers in the comparative information they disclose in their financial statements when they apply IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 for the first time. This amendment will help insurers avoid these mismatches, improving the usefulness of the comparative information for investors.
This amendment is effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. For Línea Directa, this amendment has meant reclassifying capital gains on equity instruments to equity, as it has opted for the irrevocable option of considering such instruments as instruments whose changes in value are recognised in equity. Changes in the value of investment funds during the year classified as instruments whose valuation changes are recognised through profit or loss have also been reclassified.
IAS 1 (Amendment): Disclosure of accounting policies: IAS 1 has been amended to improve accounting policy disclosures so that they provide more useful information to investors and other primary users of the financial statements. These amendments are effective as of 1 January 2023.
The impact of this amendment on the preparation of these financial statements is not significant.
IAS 8 (Amendment): Definition of accounting estimates: IAS 8 has been amended to help distinguish between changes in accounting estimates and changes in accounting policy. These amendments are effective as of 1 January 2023.
The impact of this amendment on the preparation of these financial statements is not significant.
IAS 12 (Amendment): Deferred tax related to assets and liabilities arising from a single transaction: In certain circumstances under IAS 12, companies are exempt from recognising deferred taxes when they first recognise assets or liabilities ("initial recognition exemption"). Previously, there was some uncertainty as to whether the exemption applied to transactions such as leases and decommissioning obligations, these being transactions for which both an asset and a
1 The IASB issued IFRS 17 in 2017, with entry into force due on 1 January 2021. The IASB amended IFRS 17 in June 2020 with some clarifications to facilitate its implementation, changing the date it came into effect to 1 January 2023. In November 2021, the European Union adopted the amended IFRS 17 and its updated date of entry into force.
liability are recorded at initial recognition. The amendments clarify that the exemption does not apply and that there is therefore an obligation to recognise deferred taxes on such transactions.
This amendments is effective for years beginning on or after 1 January 2023, although earlier adoption is permitted.
This amendment had no impact on the preparation of these financial statements.
IAS 12 (Amendment): International Tax Reform Pillar Two Model Rules : In October 2021, more than 130 countries, representing over 90% of global GDP, agreed to implement a minimum tax regime for multinational companies, known as "Pillar Two". In December 2021, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released the Pillar Two model rules for reforming international corporate taxation. The large multinational companies affected by this model must calculate their GloBE (Global Anti-Base Erosion) effective tax rate for each jurisdiction in which they operate. These companies will be required to pay an additional tax for the difference between their effective GloBE tax rate in each jurisdiction and a minimum rate of 15%.
In May 2023, the IASB issued amendments with limited scope to IAS 12, providing a temporary exception to the requirement to recognise and disaggregate deferred taxes arising from an approved or substantially approved tax law implementing the Pillar Two model rules published by the OECD.
These amendments also introduce the following specific breakdown requirements for companies:
The amendment to IAS 12 must be applied immediately and retrospectively in accordance with "IAS 8: Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors", including the requirement to disclose that the temporary exception has been applied, if this is the case. Breakdowns of the current tax expense and known or reasonably estimable exposure to Pillar Two corporate income tax are mandatory for annual periods starting on or after 1 January 2023. However, breakdowns of this information are not required in the interim financial statements for any period ending on or before 31 December 2023.
The amendment has had no impact on the preparation of these financial statements as the Group currently applies a rate of 25%.
b) Standards, amendments and interpretations that have not yet become effective but may be adopted early
IFRS 16 (Amendment): Lease liability in a sale and leaseback : IFRS 16 includes requirements on how to account for a sale and leaseback at the date the transaction takes place. However, it
does not specify how to record the transaction after that date. This amendment explains how a company should account for a sale and leaseback after the date of the transaction.
The amendment is effective from 1 January 2024, although early application is permitted.
The Group has decided not to apply this amendment early. However, no impact is expected from its application.
IAS 1 (Amended): Classification of liabilities as current or non-current and IAS 1 (Amended): Non-current liabilities with conditions ": These amendments, adopted concurrently by the European Union, clarify that the classification of liabilities as current or non-current should be based on rights that are in existence at the end of the reporting period. The classification is unaffected by the expectations of the entity or events after the reporting period (e.g. the receipt of a waiver or a breach of covenant). The amendment also clarifies what IAS 1 means when it refers to the 'settlement' of a liability.
The new amendment seeks to improve the information disclosed when the right to defer payment of a liability is subject to the fulfilment of covenants within 12 months of the reporting period.
This amendment is effective for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2024 and is applied retrospectively in accordance with IAS 8 "Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors". Early adoption of the amendment is permitted.
This amendment is not expected to have any impact on the Group.
At the date of authorisation for issue of these consolidated interim financial statements, the IASB and IFRS Interpretations Committee had issued the following standards, amendments and interpretations that have yet to be adopted by the European Union:
IFRS 10 (Amendment) and IAS 28 (Amendment): Sale or contribution of assets between an investor and its associate or joint venture: These amendments clarify the accounting treatment for sales and contributions of assets between an investor and its associates and joint ventures, which will depend on whether the non-monetary assets sold or contributed to an associate or joint venture constitute a 'business'. Where the non-monetary assets constitute a business, the investor will recognise the full gain or loss. If the assets do not meet the definition of a business, the investor will recognise the gain or loss only to the extent of the other investors' interest. The amendments will only apply when an investor sells or contributes assets to its associate or joint venture.
Originally, these amendments to IFRS 10 and IAS 28 were prospective and effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2016. However, at the end of 2015 the IASB reached the decision to postpone the effective date of these amendments (without setting a new specific date), as it is currently planning a broader review that may ultimately simplify the accounting treatment of these transactions and other accounting aspects for associates and joint ventures.
This amendment is not expected to have any impact on the Group.
The IASB has amended IAS 7 and IFRS 7 to improve disclosures of supplier finance arrangements ("confirming") and their effects on the company's liabilities, cash flows and exposure to liquidity risk. The amendment meets investor concerns that some companies' supplier finance arrangements are
not sufficiently transparent.
This amendment is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after 1 January 2024, although early implementation is permitted. The amendment is pending approval by the European Union.
This amendment is not expected to have any impact on the Group.
IAS 21 (Amendment): Lack of exchangeability: The IASB has amended IAS 21 by adding requirements to help entities determine whether a currency is exchangeable for another currency and the spot rate to be used when it is not. When a currency is not exchangeable for another currency, the spot exchange rate at a valuation date needs to be estimated so as to determine the rate at which an orderly exchange transaction would take place at that date between market participants under prevailing economic conditions.
When an entity first applies the new requirements, it is not permitted to restate comparative information. Instead, the amendment requires affected amounts to be translated at spot exchange rates estimated at the date of initial application of the standard, with an adjustment against reserves.
This amendment is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after 1 January 2025, although early implementation is permitted. The amendment is pending approval by the European Union.
This amendment is not expected to have any impact on the Group.
The measurement standards relied on when drawing up the accompanying consolidated financial statements are described below:
Subsidiaries are defined as entities over which the Parent exercises control, whether directly or indirectly through other subsidiaries. The Parent controls an investee when it is exposed, or has rights, to variable returns from its involvement with that investee and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the investee. The Parent has power when it possesses substantive rights that give it the ability to direct the relevant activities. The Parent is exposed, or has rights, to variable returns from its involvement with the investee when the returns it earns from that involvement have the potential to vary as a result of the investee's financial performance.
Acquisitions by the Parent (or another Group company) of control over a Subsidiary constitute a business combination accounted for using the acquisition method.
This method requires the acquirer to account for, at the acquisition date, the identifiable assets acquired and the liabilities assumed in a business combination and, if any, the related goodwill or badwill on consolidation. Subsidiaries are consolidated from the date on which control is transferred to the Group and are excluded from consolidation on the date on which control ceases.
The acquisition cost is determined as the sum of the acquisition-date fair values of the assets given, the liabilities incurred or assumed, and the equity instruments issued by the acquirer and the fair value of any contingent consideration that is contingent on future events or the fulfilment of certain conditions being met and that is required to be recognised as an asset, liability or equity according to its nature.
Expenses related to the issuance of the equity instruments or financial liabilities delivered are not part of the cost of the business combination and are recognised in accordance with the rules governing financial instruments. Fees paid to legal counsel or other professionals involved in the business combination are expensed as incurred. The cost of the combination does not include the expenses generated internally for these concepts, nor any such expenses incurred by the acquired entity.
Any excess, at the acquisition date, of the cost of the business combination above and beyond the proportionate share of the value of the identifiable assets acquired less the liabilities assumed representing the equity interest in the acquired entity is recognised as goodwill. In the exceptional case that this amount exceeds the cost of the business combination, the excess is recognised as income in the consolidated statement of profit or loss.
The assets, liabilities, income, expenses, cash flows and other items in the financial statements of the Parent and the Subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements of the Group, on the following basis:
The Group is structured internally into operating segments, which have been defined according to the different categories of products and services provided by the Group. The earnings and results of these segments are regularly reviewed as part of the decision-making process to decide on the resources to be allocated to the segment and to assess its performance. The Group's Board of Directors, which includes the Chief Executive Officer, identifies the segments from a business perspective and is the supreme decision-making body when it comes to defining these segments. The segments are aligned with the Group's organisational structure and reflect the information provided to Management and the markets.
For the year ended 31 December 2023, the Group comprised the following operating segments in accordance with IFRS 8, whose principal products, services and operations were as follows:
– Motor
Inter-segment transactions are measured at fair value and eliminated on consolidation.
All segments are directly or indirectly related to the insurance business. The Motor, Home, Health and other insurance business segments correspond to insurance-only activities.
There are no differences in accounting policies, nature of activities, valuation and measurement of assets and liabilities between each of the operating segments and there have been no changes from previous years in relation to their management.
The Group's management strategy is to analyse the performance of each segment by its profit after tax. The Group performs virtually all of its business activities in Spain. During 2023, being the first year of implementation of IFRS 17, the group's management continued to manage the segments in accordance with the results under IFRS 4, assessing the adjustments due to the regulatory change to IFRS 17 separately. The results are, therefore, presented by segments under both standards, with explanations of the main differences between them provided in Note 17, which are not significant in any case.
This heading comprises cash in hand, bank current accounts, deposits and reverse repurchase agreements that meet all the following criteria:
– They form part of the Group's normal cash management policy.
Other short-term, highly liquid investments are also included under this heading provided that they are readily convertible into known amounts of cash and subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value.
The Group, in accordance with IFRS 9, classifies its financial assets in the following categories:
The precise classification depends on the purpose for which the financial assets were acquired. Management determines the classification of its financial assets at initial recognition.
These are non-derivative financial assets with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted in an active market. They are mainly bank deposits, outstanding insurance premium receipts, debt securities and reinsurance receivables. Included in this category are claims on third parties arising from reinsurance operations.
These financial assets are initially measured at fair value, including directly attributable transaction costs, and subsequently at amortised cost. Accrued interest is recognised at the effective interest rate, which is defined as the discount rate that exactly discounts the carrying amount of the instrument to its total estimated cash flows through to maturity. However, trade receivables with a maturity of up to one year are measured, both on initial recognition and subsequently, at nominal value where the effect of not discounting the flows is not material.
At least at year end, the necessary valuation adjustments for impairment are made if there is objective evidence that not all the amounts owed will be recovered.
The amount of the impairment loss incurred is the difference between the asset's carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows, discounted at the effective interest rate at the time of initial recognition. Value adjustments, and any reversal thereof, are recognised in the consolidated statement of profit or loss. Reversal of impairment is limited to the carrying amount of the asset recognised at the date of the reversal had no such impairment been recorded.
If, in a subsequent period, the amount of the impairment loss decreases and the reduction can be objectively attributed to an event occurring after the impairment was recognised (such as an improvement in the debtor's credit quality), the reversal of the previously recognised impairment is recognised in the consolidated statement of profit or loss.
In this category the Group includes those financial assets that are held within a business model whose objective is achieved by both collecting contractual cash flows and selling financial assets, and where the contractual terms of the financial asset give rise, on specified dates, to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and interest on the principal amount outstanding. To qualify
under this business model, assets must pass the SPPI (Solely Payments of Principal and Interest) test.
Assets are measured at fair value, which, unless there is evidence to the contrary, is equal to the asset's transaction price. Changes in fair value are then recognised directly in consolidated equity until the asset is disposed of. On disposal of assets such as debt securities, gains and losses accumulated in consolidated equity are carried to the Consolidated Income Statement, provided that the fair value of the asset can be determined. In the case of shares, the company has opted to avail itself of the exception provided in IFRS 9, which allows the possibility (as an irrevocable option) of recognising gains or losses on the sale of these instruments directly in the Group's equity.
On each statement of financial position, the Group assesses the expected loss from debt securities classified as financial assets at fair value through equity. IFRS 9 emphasises the need to reflect the current and future conditions of financial instruments, proposing the use of "forward looking" information, including macroeconomic information, in making estimates. Using forward looking models allows the mitigation of potential biases and subjectivities in the assessment of credit loss scenarios. Accordingly, the Group uses forward looking information based on default probabilities issued by external rating agencies to assess each of the issues in its portfolio, allowing it to consider the expectations regarding the different instruments and the current and future situations of these instruments.
The estimated expected loss comprises three risk parameters.
12 months PD: This is the estimated probability of a default occurring in the next 12 months of the instrument's life from the date of analysis.
Lifetime PD: This is the estimated probability of occurrence of a default over the remaining life of an instrument, i.e., the maximum contractual period over which the entity is exposed to credit risk, which the standard considers the maximum period over which expected credit losses should be measured.
The portfolio is to be classified into different "stages" according to impairment risks:
Stage 1: When valuing investment portfolio instruments that are in Stage 1, 12 month PDs need to be used. The PDs for these instruments have been obtained from the estimate tables provided by prestigious rating agencies for a one-year term, according to their rating at time of valuation.
Stage 2: This stage includes instruments whose risks are significantly impaired at the reporting date. The probability of default over the whole life of the instrument is the PD that should be used when valuing Stage 2 instruments. However, as there was not enough information to make any kind of internal estimation using the Company's databases, the decision was made to use external information for the allocation of PDs. In the event that an investment in Línea Directa's portfolio is classified as Stage 2, estimates of expected loss must use PDs derived from the
estimate tables provided by rating agencies of recognised prestige, taking the value corresponding to the lifetime of the transaction. Where the remaining term is longer than 15 years, the PD used will be that corresponding a 15-year term, which is the maximum projection term used by agencies in their estimates.
Stage 3: The Group has determined that all instruments in its investment portfolio that are in default or that have undergone a specific individual analysis process that demonstrates objective evidence of impairment should be classified as Stage 3. The PD assigned to said assets should be recognised at 100%.
A financial asset will be measured at fair value through profit or loss unless it is measured at amortised cost or at fair value through other comprehensive income. This category includes all financial assets that do not pass the SPPI test and all equity not recognised as shares.
Financial assets are derecognised from the consolidated balance sheet when all the risks and rewards of ownership of the asset have been substantially transferred. In the specific case of accounts receivable, this is generally understood to occur if and when the risks of insolvency and default have been transferred.
Conversely, the Group does not derecognise financial assets, and recognises a financial liability for an amount equal to the consideration received, on transfers of financial assets in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained.
Derecognition of a financial asset entails the recognition, in the statement of profit or loss or in equity, depending on the type of asset, of the difference between the carrying amount of the financial asset and the consideration received, including attributable transaction costs. Any liabilities transferred other than the cash or asset assumed are also recognised.
Dividend income is recognised as income in the consolidated statement of profit or loss when the right to receive payment is established.
On initial recognition of a financial asset, the Group measures it at fair value, adjusted for transaction costs that are directly attributable to the purchase or issue of the asset.
After initial recognition, the Group keeps measuring financial assets at fair value but does not deduct the transaction costs that may be incurred on sale, except for certain loans and receivables that are measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
The fair value of a financial instrument on a given date means the amount for which it could be bought or sold between knowledgeable, willing buyers and sellers on an arm's length basis. The most objective and common reference for the fair value of a financial instrument is the quoted prices of the instrument on an active market.
An active market is one in which the following conditions exist simultaneously:
There is no need for the market to be regulated, though it must be transparent and deep. Therefore, prices that are known and readily accessible to the public from financial information providers, and that reflect actual, current and regularly occurring market transactions will be considered as valid prices in an active market.
If no price can be found in an active market, the price must be estimated instead through a valuation model or technique, consistent with the accepted methodology used in the market for pricing, while maximising the use of observable market data.
For this purpose, financial instruments have been classified into three tiers, depending on the inputs used to determine their fair value:
Instruments may be moved between tiers following periodic control processes and verification of quoted prices, as follows:
The Group recognises transfers between tiers in the fair value hierarchy at the date of the event or change in circumstances that warranted the transfer.
The Group classifies its financial liabilities according to the purpose for which they were acquired. Management determines the classification of its financial liabilities at initial recognition.
The Group uses this heading to show both trade and non-trade payables.
These debts are initially recognised at fair value adjusted for directly attributable transaction costs and are subsequently recognised at amortised cost using the effective interest method. The effective interest rate is the discount rate that exactly discounts the carrying value of the instrument to the expected flow of future payments through to maturity of the liability.
However, trade payables with a maturity not exceeding one year and that do not have a contractual interest rate are measured, both initially and subsequently, at their nominal value when the effect of not discounting the cash flows is immaterial.
If existing debts are renegotiated, no substantial change to the financial liability will be deemed to exist when the present value of the cash flows of the new liability, including net fees, does not differ significantly from the present value of the outstanding cash flows under the original liability, both discounted at the effective interest rate of the latter.
The Group derecognises a financial liability or part of one when it has discharged the underlying obligation or is otherwise legally released from the underlying responsibility, whether by virtue of a court ruling or by the creditor itself.
Derecognition of a financial liability entails the recognition, in the statement of profit or loss, of the difference between the carrying amount of the financial liability and the consideration paid, including attributable transaction costs. Any assets transferred other than the cash or liability assumed are also recognised.
Hedging derivatives are recognised under "Hedging derivatives" on the assets or liabilities side of the consolidated balance sheet, as appropriate.
Hedging derivatives are derivatives whose fair value or future cash flows are intended to offset changes in the fair value or future cash flows of hedged items.
Changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as fair value hedges are recognised in the consolidated statement of profit or loss, together with any changes in the fair value of the hedged asset or liability that are attributable to the hedged risk.
Cash flow hedges cover exposure to changes in interest flows attributable to a specific risk associated with interest rate fluctuations. The Group recognised no such hedging arrangements in 2023 or 2022.
In relation to derivatives held by the Group that are classified as fair value hedges, the following steps are taken to measure the effectiveness of the hedge:
First, the Group defines the hedged item through a synthetic bond whose flows are equivalent to
the hedged portion of each government bond (Note 7-b i)). The change in the fair value of the synthetic bond is calculated by discounting its flows using the standard Euribor 6m curve. Lastly, it is confirmed that the difference between this change and the change in the fair value of the hedging derivative is within the parameters marked as effective hedging (80% - 125%).
Land, natural assets and buildings that are held to obtain income, capital gains or both and that are not occupied by the Group qualify as real estate investments. Land, natural assets and buildings held for the provision of services or for administrative purposes for own use are treated as property, plant and equipment.
Property, plant and equipment and investment property are recognised at their acquisition price, which includes, in addition to the purchase price, all additional expenses incurred, including finance expenses, until the asset is put into operation.
Asset expansion and improvement costs are added to assets as an increase in the value of the asset only when they result in an increase in its capacity, floor area, or return, or when they lengthen its useful life, whereupon the carrying amount of the replaced items is derecognised. Under no circumstances does repair and maintenance work qualify as improvements.
These assets are amortised systematically on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful life, taking into account the depreciation effectively sustained from their operation, use and enjoyment. The following rates are used to calculate amortisation:
| Property, plant and equipment and investment property | Rate |
|---|---|
| Furniture and installations | 4% - 10% |
| IT equipment | 10% - 25% |
| Vehicles | 25% |
| Other property, plant and equipment | 12 - 15% |
| Buildings for own use | 2% |
| Buildings for property investment | 2% |
The Group reviews the residual value, useful life and amortisation method of property, plant and equipment at the end of each reporting period. Changes in the criteria initially established are recognised as a change in estimates.
At year-end, the corresponding valuation adjustments, if any, are made to property, plant and equipment and investment property. For the purposes of impairment, the Group assesses whether there is any indication of impairment at least once a year if the asset's carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount. If so, the carrying amount is immediately lowered to match the recoverable amount.
Recoverable amount is the higher of fair value less costs to sell and value in use. In the case of property, fair value is equal to the appraisal value determined by an appraisal company authorised to appraise property on the mortgage market, in accordance with the provisions of Order ECO/805/2003 of 27 March on rules for the appraisal of property and the rights granted to certain financial purposes.
Value in use is the present value of expected future cash flows through use and, as the case may be, disposal of the asset in the normal course of business.
Order ECC 371/2013 of 4 March requires insurance companies to instruct an appraisal company to review the valuations of their property assets once two years have elapsed from the previous valuation.
Recoverable amount must be determined for an individual asset, unless the asset does not generate cash inflows that are largely independent of those from other assets or groups of assets. If this is the case, the recoverable amount is determined for the cash-generating unit (CGU) to which it belongs.
Losses related to the impairment of the CGU initially reduce, where applicable, the value of the goodwill allocated to the CGU and subsequently to the other assets of the CGU, pro rata on the basis of the carrying amount of each asset, subject to the limit for each asset of the higher of its fair value less costs of disposal, its value in use and zero.
At each reporting date, the Group assesses whether there is any indication that the impairment loss recognised in prior periods no longer exists or may have decreased. Impairment losses are reversed only if there has been a change in the estimates used to determine the asset's recoverable amount. The reversal of the impairment loss is credited to profit or loss.
However, the reversal of the loss cannot have the effect of increasing the carrying amount of the asset above the carrying amount it would have had, net of amortisation, had the impairment not been recognised.
The amount of the reversal of the impairment loss of a CGU is allocated to the assets of the CGU pro rata on the basis of the carrying amount of the assets, with the limit per asset being the lower of its recoverable amount and the carrying amount it would have had, net of amortisation, had the loss not been recognised.
The Group assesses whether a contract contains a lease at inception of the contract. A contract is, or contains, a lease if the contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. The period of time during which the Group uses an asset includes both consecutive and non-consecutive periods of time. The Group only reassesses the terms and conditions of a contract when it is modified.
For contracts containing one or more lease and non-lease components, the Group allocates the contract consideration to each lease component according to the separate selling price of the lease component and the aggregate individual price of the non-lease components. Such treatment has not been applied to vehicles, applying the practical expedient permitted by the standard, thus not separating the non-lease components and accounting for the lease component and any associated non-lease component as a single lease component.
Payments made by the Group that do not involve the transfer of goods or services from the lessor to the Group are not a separate component of the lease, but form part of the total lease consideration.
The Group has elected not to apply the accounting policies set out below for short-term leases and those where the underlying asset has a fair value of less than five thousand euros. For such contracts, the Group recognises the lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
The Group recognises a right-of-use asset and a lease liability at the inception of the lease. The
right-of-use asset consists of the amount of the lease liability, any lease payments made on or before the commencement date, less incentives received, initial direct costs incurred and, as the case may be, an estimate of the dismantling or restoring costs to be incurred, as indicated in the accounting policy for provisions.
The Group measures lease liabilities at the present value of the lease payments outstanding at the commencement date. The Group discounts lease payments at the appropriate incremental borrowing rate unless it can reliably determine the lessor's implicit interest rate.
Lease payments payable consist of fixed payments, less any incentive receivable, variable payments that depend on an index or rate, initially measured at the index or rate applicable at the commencement date, amounts expected to be payable under residual value guarantees, the exercise price of the purchase option reasonably certain to be exercised and payment of penalties for terminating the lease, if the lease term reflects the lessee exercising an option to terminate the lease.
The Group measures right-of-use assets at cost, less accumulated amortisation and impairment losses, adjusted for any re-estimation of lease liabilities.
If the contract transfers ownership of the asset to the Group at the end of the lease term or the rightof-use asset includes the purchase option price, the amortisation criteria set out in f) Property, plant and equipment and investment property are applied from the commencement date of the lease until the end of the useful life of the asset. Otherwise, the Group depreciates the right-of-use asset from the commencement date to the earlier of the useful life of the underlying asset or the end of the lease term.
The Group applies the impairment criteria for non-current assets described in section f) Property, plant and equipment and investment property to right-of-use assets.
The Group measures the lease liability by increasing it by the accrued finance expense, decreasing it by the payments made and re-estimating the carrying amount for lease modifications or to reflect updates of in-substance fixed payments.
In 2022 and 2023, the Group did not incur any expenses for variable lease payments.
For contracts containing one or more lease and non-lease components, the Group allocates the contract consideration as indicated in the accounting policy on income and expenses.
The Group classifies as finance leases contracts that at inception substantially transfer the risks and rewards incidental to ownership of the assets to the lessee. Otherwise, they are classified as operating leases.
The Group presents assets leased to third parties under operating leases according to their nature or type in accordance with the accounting principles described in section f) Property, plant and equipment and investment property.
The Group recognises income from operating leases, net of incentives granted, as income over the lease term on a straight-line basis, unless another systematic basis of allocation is more representative of the pattern in which benefit from the use of the asset diminishes.
Initial direct lease costs are included in the carrying amount of the leased asset and are recognised as an expense over the lease term using the same criteria as those used for income recognition.
The Group recognises variable payments as revenue when it is probable that they will be received, which is generally when the events that trigger their collection occur.
The Group recognises modifications to operating leases as a new lease from the effective date of the modification, considering any prepayments or deferred payments for the original lease as part of the lease payments for the new lease.
Intangible assets are recognised at acquisition cost or, where applicable, at production cost, less the corresponding amortisation and accumulated impairment losses.
In particular, the following criteria apply:
Includes amounts paid for ownership of, or the right to use software where the term of the arrangement exceeds one year. These assets are amortised on a straight-line basis over a period of four to five years.
For the purposes of impairment, the Group assesses whether there is any indication of impairment at least once a year if the asset's carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount. If so, the carrying amount is immediately lowered to match the recoverable amount.
The Group recognises the derecognition of an intangible asset on disposal or when it does not expect to receive future economic benefits from its use or disposal. The date of disposal of an intangible asset is the date on which the buyer acquires control of the asset.
The Group uses this category to recognise all assets that do not qualify as software, such as acquired rights of use. Assets recorded in this category are considered to have an indefinite useful life.
For the purposes of impairment, the Group assesses whether there is any indication of impairment at least once a year if the asset's carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount. If so, the carrying amount is immediately lowered to match the recoverable amount.
The Group recognises the derecognition of an intangible asset on disposal or when it does not expect to receive future economic benefits from its use or disposal. The date of disposal of an intangible asset is the date on which the buyer acquires control of the asset.
Acquisition expenses on premiums, included in the outstanding hedging liabilities on the liability side of the consolidated balance sheet, are deferred subject to the limit established in the technical notes for each product and/or segment and the maturity of the policies.
The inventories held by the Group include mainly car spare parts from subsidiary Centro Avanzado de Reparaciones, S.L.U. and batteries from Línea Directa Asistencia, S.L.U.
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost and net realisable value. When the net realisable value of inventories is lower than their cost, the appropriate valuation adjustments are made and recognised as an expense in the consolidated statement of profit or loss. If the circumstances to
have caused the impairment to cease to exist, the amount of the impairment is reversed and recognised as income in the consolidated statement of profit or loss. The balance of inventories is shown under "Other assets" in the consolidated balance sheet (Note 11).
This sub-heading mainly shows the cost of certain services paid in advance by the Group and accrued in the following year.
On 1 January 2023, IFRS 17 "Insurance Contracts" came into force, as discussed in Note 2f). IFRS 17 provides a comprehensive approach to accounting for insurance contracts. IFRS 17 applies to insurance contracts, reinsurance contracts and investment contracts with discretionary participation for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023, which is the date of first application, although comparative information with a transition date of 1 January 2022 is required.
The Group analyses the products it sells to determine whether any of these components are noninsurance and whether they need to be separated and accounted for using other standards, such as IFRS 9 for investment components and IFRS 15 for service components. The Group has not identified any components that should be separated, meaning that all components are identified as insurance and will therefore be accounted for under IFRS 17.
The standard requires entities to identify portfolios of insurance contracts separately, such that a portfolio comprises contracts subject to similar risks and managed together. Contracts within a product line can be assumed to have similar risks and, therefore, to be in the same portfolio if they are managed together.
The Group determines that similar risks exist based on the characteristics of the coverage of each product, in view of the boundaries of the contracts. The Group considers that a group of contracts is jointly managed in a manner consistent with the segment grouping envisaged in IFRS 8: Segment Information.
Likewise, at initial recognition, the Group does not include contracts issued more than one year apart in the same group. Therefore, if necessary, the Group will separate contracts on the basis of the year of issue, i.e., into annual cohorts. As the Group does not sell mutualised contracts on an intergenerational basis, or contracts with cash flow matching, it does not qualify for the exemption from the annual cohort requirement allowed by the standard for EU entities.
Each contract portfolio is further broken down into three groups of contracts
Each group of contracts in the portfolio is assigned a measurement model based on its characteristics and the criteria set out in applicable regulations.
The Group assesses whether contracts that are not onerous at initial recognition have no significant
possibility of becoming onerous subsequently by assessing the likelihood of changes in relevant facts and circumstances.
In the case of reinsurance, the groups of contracts consist of each individual reinsurance contract.
The Group, based on an analysis of the level of aggregation required by the standard, has segmented the portfolios of contracts into Motor, Home, Health and Other insurance business. This segmentation is in line with the segmentation reported so far under the criteria set out in IFRS 8 for both direct insurance and reinsurance.
Based on the prevailing circumstances at the date of transition and the current date, the Group has only opted to treat the Health contract portfolio as onerous. For motor business, it is estimated that the technical branch will be balanced at the close with the new measures. It is therefore currently considered non-onerous.
The Group recognises groups of insurance contracts it issues from the earliest of the following dates:
If there is no contractual due date, the policyholder's first payment is considered due when it is received.
When measuring a group of insurance contracts, the Group counts all future cash flows within the boundaries of each contract in the group.
Cash flows are within the boundary of an insurance contract if they arise from substantive rights and obligations that exist during the reporting period in which the Group can compel the policyholder to pay the premiums or in which the Group has a substantive obligation to provide the policyholder with insurance contract services, i.e., has the practical ability to reassess the risks of the particular policyholder.
The implementation of IFRS 17 has required consistent accounting for all insurance contracts based on the measurement models provided for in the standard, which will use calculation assumptions updated at each reporting date (such as the discount rate, actuarial assumptions and other financial variables).
With the aim of standardising international insurance accounting practices, IFRS 17 envisions three measurement models for insurance contracts:
The standard simplifies the measurement of a group of insurance contracts through the Premium Allocation Approach if, and only if, at the beginning of the group:
The Group's insurance contracts currently have a duration of one year or less, thus allowing the Group to apply the Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) measurement model to all groups of insurance contracts issued.
If the terms of an insurance contract are amended, the Group derecognises the original contract and recognises the modified contract as a new contract, applying IFRS 17 or other applicable standards, if, and only if, any of the following conditions are satisfied:
a) If the amended terms were foreseen at the inception of the contract:
b) The original contract met the definition of an insurance contract with direct participation features, but the amended contract no longer meets that definition, or vice versa;
c) The Premium Allocation Approach was applied to the terms of the original contract, but, as a result of the amendments, the contract no longer meets the conditions for the application of that criterion.
Therefore, the Group shall derecognise an insurance contract when the obligation indicated in the insurance contract expires, has been satisfied or cancelled, or when the contract is substantively amended by any of the circumstances described in the preceding paragraph.
Under the Premium Allocation Approach, at initial recognition, the liability for remaining coverage consists of:
liability recognised for the cash flows from the acquisition of the insurance.
The components that make up the liability for remaining coverage are not adjusted for the time value of money and the effect of financial risk, as the cash flows to be paid or received are less than one year.
As all insurance contracts issued have a coverage period not exceeding one year, the Group may elect to recognise insurance acquisition cash flows as an expense when such costs are incurred or capitalised. The Group has chosen to allocate insurance acquisition cash flows to groups of insurance contracts using a systematic method over the period of coverage of the contracts.
This criterion has had no impact on the Group's results with respect to that applied under IFRS 4, although its classification in the consolidated balance sheet will be as a reduction of the liability for remaining coverage, rather than being shown as an asset for the portion of deferred acquisition expenses.
If, at any time during the coverage period, the prevailing circumstances indicate that a segment has become onerous in nature, the Group shall calculate the difference between the carrying amount of the liability for remaining coverage and the cash flows arising from performance related to the remaining coverage of the group. If the cash flows from compliance exceed the carrying amount, the Group recognises a loss in profit or loss and increases the liability for remaining coverage.
The application of the Premium Allocation Approach means that the measurement and recognition of the liability for remaining coverage will be performed in a substantially similar manner as under the previous IFRS 4 framework and will not, therefore, have a material impact on the Group's results.
A loss component will be provided for those groups of contracts that the Company considers to be onerous. The loss component will be included in the outstanding hedging liability. The Group will assess onerousness based on the facts and circumstances observed during the current and subsequent financial years, considering onerousness exists when the group of contracts has a combined ratio of more than 100%. Should this be the case, an onerousness test will be carried out and a loss component will be assessed on the basis of experience and future prospects.
The loss component is obtained by applying an onerousness ratio to insurance contract revenues measured under PAA, based on the estimated revenues and expenses allocated to a group of contracts.
The liability for claims incurred comprises cash flows from the fulfilment of claims incurred that have not been paid. It also includes incurred but not reported claims. These flows are adjusted for the time value of money and the effect of financial risk. The non-financial risk adjustment is also incorporated into this liability for claims incurred. The calculation of liability for claims incurred under the Premium Allocation Approach is equivalent to the calculation made under the general method. However, the effect of changes in the discount curve and part of the credit of interest will be recognised in equity. The components of liabilities for claims incurred are as follows:
– Estimating future cash flows: The Group estimates future cash flows based on a Best Estimate assumption and in line with Solvency II regulations. Future cash flow projections
are based on past statistical information to which statistical methods based on the Group's expert judgement are applied.
– Risk adjustment for non-financial risk: Risk adjustment for non-financial risk: The Group adjusts its estimation of the present value of future cash flows through risk adjustment to compensate for any uncertainty regarding the amount and timing of cash flows arising from non-financial risk. The group has agreed to use a percentile methodology in calculating risk adjustments. In the Motor segment, calculations will be made using the Merz & Wüthrich stochastic methodology. In the case of Home and Health contract groups, calculations will be made using the standard deviation obtained by equating the 99.5% percentile to the sum of the Best Estimate and the reserve SCR. The Group has chosen to maintain for all segments a risk adjustment corresponding to the 85% compliant percentile under the Valueat-Risk methodology.
In the case of the liability risk adjustment for the remaining coverage, it is currently not applicable since, as mentioned above, the Group relies on the Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) measurement method for all insurance and reinsurance contracts.
– Discount rate: The Group measures the financial effect by the time effect, using discount rates that reflect the liquidity characteristics of the insurance contracts and the characteristics of the cash flows, consistent with current market prices and excluding any factors that could influence the market prices of the reference assets but do not affect the flows of the insurance contracts.
The Group calculates the discount rate using the bottom-up approach based on the risk-free curve, and relying on the curve published monthly by EIOPA (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority).
The components of the remaining coverage provision are not discounted using the discount rate as they are less than one year, while the cash flows and risk adjustment that make up the liability for claims incurred are discounted using the discount rate because they have a time horizon of more than one year.
The Group has opted to recognise financial expenses or income from insurance contracts arising from the application of the discount rate in "other comprehensive income" under "Valuation adjustments" in equity in the consolidated balance sheet.
The Group evaluates and measures reinsurance contracts held separately from the related underlying insurance contracts.
The Group divides portfolios of reinsurance contracts based on whether or not they are onerous, applying the same criteria as for direct insurance contracts, except that references to onerous contracts in those paragraphs are replaced by references to contracts with a net gain on initial recognition.
The Group recognises reinsurance contracts held as of the earliest of the following dates:
a) the beginning of the period of cover of the reinsurance contracts held;
b) the date on which the Group recognises an onerous group of underlying insurance contracts, if the Group entered into the related reinsurance contract held on or before that date.
However, the Group defers recognition of a group of held reinsurance contracts that provide proportionate coverage until the date of initial recognition of any underlying contract, if that date is after the beginning of the coverage period of the group of reinsurance contracts held.c
The valuation methods for reinsurance contracts held are the same as for insurance contracts, as are the requirements for applying the simplified Premium Allocation Approach. With the exception of one proportional reinsurance contract in the health segment, all reinsurance contracts held have a duration of one year or less and the Group has therefore decided to apply the simplified model in their case. The Group has performed an eligibility test for that multi-year proportionate contract, confirming that the application of the simplified model generates a measurement of the Group's liability for remaining coverage that does not differ significantly from that which would be obtained by applying the general approach. Therefore, the Group has decided to apply the PAA model also to this reinsurance contract.
The Group includes the effect of any risk of default by the issuer in its estimates of the present value of the future cash flows from reinsurance contracts held, including the effects of collateral and losses resulting from litigation.
All reinsurance contracts are valued on a Premium Allocation basis. Under this method, the initial measurement of the asset is equal to the reinsurance premium paid. The Group measures the amount relating to the remaining coverage by allocating the premium paid over the period of the group's coverage.
When reinsurance contracts held cover a group of onerous underlying insurance contracts, the Group adjusts the asset value for the remaining coverage and recognises a gain when, in the same period, it reports a loss on initial recognition of an onerous group of underlying insurance contracts, or on additional losses on a previously onerous group of underlying contracts. The recognition of this gain results in the recognition of the loss recovery component of the asset for the remaining coverage of a group of reinsurance contracts held. This component is subsequently adjusted for any applicable changes.
Contingent liabilities are possible obligations arising from past events whose materialisation is conditional upon the occurrence or non-occurrence of one or more future events beyond the Group's control. These contingent liabilities are not recognised in the accounts, though they may be disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.
Provisions are recognised for obligations such as litigation in progress, indemnities or other obligations of undetermined amount or timing when the Group has a present obligation as a result of a past event, and it is probable that an outflow of resources will be required to settle the obligation based on a reliable estimate of the amount of the obligation.
Provisions are measured at the present value of the best possible estimate of the amount required to settle or transfer the obligation, taking into account available information on the event and its consequences. Any adjustments arising from the updating of these provisions are recognised as a financial expense as it accrues. If the liabilities mature within one year, they are recognised at the nominal value of the obligation.
Meanwhile, compensation to be received from a third party at the time the obligation is settled provided there is no doubt that such reimbursement will be received— is recognised as an asset, except where there is a legal relationship through which part of the risk has been externalised and by virtue of which the Group is not liable. In this situation, the compensation will be taken into account when estimating the amount at which the corresponding provision, if any, should be posted.
The share capital is represented by common shares. The costs of issuing new shares are charged directly to equity, as a reduction in reserves.
Where the Parent's own shares are acquired, the consideration paid, including any directly attributable incremental costs, is deducted from consolidated equity until the shares are redeemed, reissued or otherwise disposed of. When these shares are sold or subsequently reissued, any amount received, net of any directly attributable incremental transaction costs, is taken to consolidated equity.
As part of its capital management policy, the Línea Directa Group aims to maintain a strong capital position.
The Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for the control and management of the Group's risks and solvency, and therefore monitors the Group's capital position, solvency requirements and available solvency.
Capital management is aimed at ensuring that the Group has sufficient capitalisation to meet its financial obligations; optimising its capital structure through an efficient allocation of resources and managing capital adequacy taking into account the economic and accounting information, as well as capital requirements and targets set in the risk appetite framework.
To achieve this, the Group carries out an annual Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA), based on the outlook for the Group's business and the market. This allows the Group to prospectively project its assets and liabilities and earnings, which in turn can be used to evaluate the likely future performance of the various risks under management, quantify them and estimate changes in solvency and available solvency requirements.
The Parent is required to quantify its solvency ratio, meaning the ratio between available own funds and the solvency capital requirement. The Group is not required to calculate a solvency ratio at Group level as it does not meet the definition of group obligations set out in the Solvency Directive.
The calculation of the Solvency Capital Requirement is regulated by Directive 2009/138 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II), as implemented by Commission Delegated Regulation 2015/35 of 10 October 2014 supplementing Directive 2009-138 EC and its subsequent amendments.
The Solvency Capital Requirement is calculated for the following sub-risks which are the main subrisks of an insurance company: underwriting risk, market risk, counterparty risk and operational risk.
The aim is to maintain an adequate level of solvency. When determining the adequate level of solvency, the risk profile, the results of capital planning for the coming years at the Company at an individual level, the minimum levels required by the regulations and the existing criteria and regulations for optimal capital management were all taken into consideration. The Parent's solvency ratio was 180% in 2023 and 188% in 2022.
The Group has other revenue not derived from the insurance business, such as roadside assistance services or vehicle repairs and appraisals, all of which are provided to third parties outside the Group, as well as commissions on the sale of insurance products of other entities, remuneration for call forwarding and income from credit card surcharges.
This revenue, in accordance with IFRS 15, is recognised as the performance obligation identified in the customer contract is satisfied. The Group recognises revenue at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable to which it expects to be entitled for the goods or services transferred.
Non-technical income and expenses are recognised as they accrue and taking into account the correlation between the income generated and the corresponding expenses.
Income is recorded at the fair value of the consideration to be received and represents amounts receivable for goods delivered and services rendered in the ordinary course of the Group's business, less discounts and value added tax. Expenses are recognised as they accrue and taking into account the correlation between the income generated and the corresponding expenses.
However, the Group only records profits that have realised by year-end, while foreseeable risks and possible losses arising in the year or in a previous year are reported as soon as they become known.
Financial income and expenses arising from investments related to insurance activity are recognised in the statement of profit or loss for the non-life insurance business. The remainder is recorded in the statement of profit or loss for other activities.
Other income and expenses are distributed accordingly on the basis of net premiums written, except expenses attributable to claims, which are recognised on the basis of the provision for claims.
Business premiums are recognised as income over the term of the contracts on an accruals basis and are accrued by posting the provision for unearned premiums.
Premiums from ceded reinsurance are recognised on the basis of the reinsurance contracts underwritten and by applying the same criteria used for direct insurance.
IFRS 17 requires that expenses that are eligible to be directly allocated to both the groups of contracts and to the insurance business should be allocated to the groups of contracts.
The reclassification of expenses by type to expenses by purpose has been made on the basis of the following criteria:
• Purpose-specific costs incurred have been classified directly as such.
The following purposes have been established:
Expenses have been allocated to the different segments based on the Business Unit at which the activity originated.
In accordance with current legislation, the Group is obligated to pay compensation to those employees whose employment relationship is terminated under certain conditions. Therefore, termination payments that can be reasonably quantified are recognised as an expense in the year in which the decision is taken and a valid expectation is created vis-à-vis third parties regarding the dismissal. A liability is recognised under the sub-heading "Provisions other than technical provisions" when the disbursement has not been made.
The Group has post-employment pension obligations classified as defined contribution plans and as defined benefit plans.
The Group's obligations with its employees with regard to retirement or similar pension plans are fully externalised, in compliance with the legislation in force regarding the externalisation of pension obligations (Royal Decree 1588/1999 of 15 October, approving the Regulations on the externalisation of company pension obligations with employees and beneficiaries).
The aforementioned insurance policies are considered "plan assets" as they are not owned by the Group, but rather by a separate legal entity that is not a related party, as they are only available to pay or finance employee remuneration and as they cannot return to the Group, except where the assets attached to the plan are sufficient to honour all of the obligations.
This collective bargaining agreement also includes coverage for death and disability of employees during the period in which they remain in active service.
The current General State Collective Agreement for Insurance, Reinsurance and Occupational Accident Mutual Societies ushers in a new employee benefits system implemented through a collective life insurance policy suitable for the externalisation of pension commitments in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 1588/1999, of 29 November. The Group will contribute an annual premium per employee of 1.9% of their base salary to this insurance policy by no later than 30 September of each year, bearing in mind that employees who had provided services at the same company for three years or more will be entitled to have their vested rights recognised in the insurance policy.
This insurance policy will apply to employees hired from 1 January 2017 onward and those who
have voluntarily opted to transfer to this new modality. For employees adhered to the old plan who opted to avail themselves of this option, there was a transfer of the mathematical reserve.
The Group has also assumed a retirement commitment with certain executives, which has been externalised in the form of an insurance policy.
The Group records the contributions to be made to defined contribution plans progressively as the employees render their services. The amount of accrued contributions is recorded as an employee benefits expense and as a liability after deducting any amounts already paid. In the event that the amounts paid exceed the accrued expense, the corresponding assets are only recognised to the extent that they can be applied to reductions in future payments or result in a cash refund.
Employees hired prior to 1 January 2017 may choose between the system described above and the financial incentive for retirement, whereby if an employee asks to retire in the month in which he or she reaches the normal retirement age defined by Social Security legislation to be eligible for the retirement pension, the company will pay, in a lump sum, an amount equal to one month of salary per five years of service, capped at 10 months, the limit of which will be reached at 30 years of service at the company where the employee is retiring.
The Group includes in defined benefit plans those funded through the payment of insurance premiums where there is a legal or constructive obligation to pay benefits directly to employees when they fall due or to pay additional amounts if the insurer fails to pay benefits for services rendered by employees in the year or in prior years.
The defined benefit liability recognised in the consolidated balance sheet is the present value of the defined benefit obligation existing at the balance sheet date, less the fair value of plan assets at that date.
The expense or income relating to defined benefit plans is recognised under employee benefits expenses and is obtained by adding the net amount of the current year services cost and the net interest cost of the net defined benefit liability or asset. The remeasured amount of the net defined benefit liability or asset is recognised in other comprehensive income. This amount comprises actuarial gains and losses, the net return on plan assets and any changes in the effects of the asset ceiling, excluding amounts included in the net interest on the liability or asset. The costs of administering plan assets and any plan-specific taxes, beyond those included in the actuarial assumptions, are deducted from the net return on plan assets. Amounts deferred in other comprehensive income are reclassified to retained earnings in the same period.
In addition, if the plan assets include eligible insurance policies whose cash flows correspond exactly in amounts and timing to some or all of the benefits payable under the plan, their fair value is equal to the present value of the related payment obligations.
The Group's Chief Executive Officer and members of the Management Committee are party to an extraordinary share-based remuneration plan under which the Parent is the parent company, following its stock market listing. The purpose of this plan, which was approved at the Annual General Meeting held on 18 March 2021, is to offer beneficiaries the possibility of receiving a certain number of shares over the three years following the Parent's stock market flotation (Note 23 c).
The Group recognises services received in a transaction with share-based payments at the time such services are received. Since the services are settled in equity instruments, a decrease in equity is recognised.
The Group recognises transactions with share-based payments settled through the Group's equity instruments for the fair value of the goods or services received, unless such fair value cannot be reliably estimated, in which case the value is determined by reference to the fair value of the equity instruments delivered.
Deliveries of equity instruments in consideration of services provided by Employees of the Group or third parties providing similar services are valued by reference to the fair value of the equity instruments offered.
As a general rule, transactions between related parties are initially recognised at fair value. If the agreed price differs from its fair value, the difference is recorded to reflect the economic reality of the transaction. These transactions are subsequently measured in accordance with the relevant standards.
The functional currency at all Group companies is the euro. Consequently, transactions in non-euro currencies are deemed to be denominated in foreign currency and are recognised at the exchange rates prevailing on the relevant transaction date.
At year-end, monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currency are converted into euro at the exchange rate prevailing at the consolidated balance sheet date. The profit or loss for the year is taken to the consolidated statement of profit or loss.
Changes in the fair value of money instruments denominated in foreign currency classified as available for sale are analysed for translation differences resulting from exchange changes in the amortised cost of the security and other changes in the carrying amount. The translation difference is recognised in consolidated profit and loss and other changes in the carrying amount are taken to consolidated equity.
Corporate income tax expense is the amount accruing in the year for that tax, comprising both current and deferred tax expense.
Both current and deferred tax expense are recognised in the consolidated statement of profit or loss. However, the tax effect related to items that are recorded directly in consolidated equity is recognised in consolidated equity.
Current tax assets and liabilities are measured at the amounts expected to be paid to, or recovered from, the tax authorities in accordance with prevailing legislation or approved and pending publication at year-end.
If the Group believes that it is probable that the tax authority will accept an uncertain tax treatment, the Group will determine tax gain (tax loss), tax bases, unused tax losses, unused tax credits or tax rates in a manner consistent with the tax treatment used or expected to be used in its income tax returns.
If the Group believes that it is not probable that the tax authority will accept an uncertain tax treatment, the Group will reflect the effect of the uncertainty when calculating the related tax gain (tax loss), tax bases, unused tax losses or unused tax credits or tax rates. The Group will reflect the effect of the uncertainty of each uncertain tax treatment using the most likely amount or the expected value of the probability-weighted amounts, as applicable in each case.
In accordance with IFRIC 23, the Group recognises under current and deferred tax assets and liabilities the amounts that the entity estimates to reflect contingencies arising from litigation with the tax authorities in relation to corporate income tax.
Deferred taxes are calculated, using the liability method, on the temporary differences arising between the tax bases of the assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts.
Deferred tax is determined by applying the tax regulations and rates approved or about to be approved at the consolidated balance sheet date and that are expected to apply when the corresponding deferred tax asset is realised or the deferred tax liability is settled.
Deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that future taxable profit will be available against which the temporary differences can be utilised. Deferred tax is recognised on temporary differences arising on investments in subsidiaries, except where the Parent is able to control the timing of the reversal of the temporary differences and it is probable that the reversal will not occur in the foreseeable future.
The Group uses the following classification criteria when drawing up its consolidated statement of cash flows:
Subsidiaries are all companies over which the Parent exercises direct or indirect control [see Note 3a)]. Subsidiaries are considered from the date on which control is transferred to the Parent and are excluded from consolidation on the date on which consolidation ceases.
| Company name | % direct holding | Relationship | Method of consolidation | Activity | Address | Auditor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Línea Directa Asistencia, S.L.U. |
100% | Subsidiary | Fully consolidated | Valuations, vehicle inspections and roadside assistance |
PriceWaterhouseCoop ers Auditores S.L. |
|
| Moto Club LDA, S.L.U. | 100% | Subsidiary | Fully consolidated | Services for motorcycle users | Tres Cantos, Madrid |
PriceWaterhouseCoop ers Auditores, S.L.(*) |
| Centro Avanzado de Reparaciones, S.L.U. |
100% | Subsidiary | Fully consolidated | Vehicle repairs | Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid |
PriceWaterhouseCoop ers Auditores, S.L. |
| Ambar Medline, S.L.U. | 100% | Subsidiary | Fully consolidated | Insurance brokerage | Tres Cantos, Madrid |
PriceWaterhouseCoop ers Auditores, S.L. (*). |
| LDActivos, S.L.U. | 100% | Subsidiary | Fully consolidated | Asset management on behalf of insurance companies |
Tres Cantos, Madrid |
PriceWaterhouseCoop ers Auditores, S.L.(*) |
| LDA Reparaciones, S.L.U. (Liquidated) |
100% | Subsidiary | Fully consolidated | Management and repair of claims, specialising in home repairs |
Tres Cantos, Madrid |
The list of entities included in the scope of consolidation is as follows:
(*) Limited review of condensed annual accounts.
All significant balances and transactions between consolidated companies have been eliminated in the consolidation process.
In November 2023, the subsidiary LDA Reparaciones ceased its activity. Its effect on the consolidated statement of financial position at 31 December 2023 is therefore nil, and its accumulated result for the year is included in the Group's consolidated statement of profit or loss for the year.
There were no changes in the scope of consolidation in 2022.
The organisational structure of risk management and control at Línea Directa Aseguradora is based upon the principles of independence and segregation of duties between business units and risk monitoring and control units.
The Board of Directors is the body responsible for the administration, governance and representation of the company in accordance with the duties assigned to it by law, the Bylaws and the Board Regulations. Its members possess the appropriate professional qualifications, expertise and experience and likewise meet the requirements of good repute required under Law 20/2015, of 14 July, on the regulation, supervision and solvency of insurance and reinsurance companies, and by Línea Directa Aseguradora's own Fitness and Propriety Policy.
The Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for determining the risk control and management policy, including tax risks, and for overseeing internal reporting and control systems. It also establishes and defines the risk appetite, sets limits for the identified risks, and sees to it that they are properly monitored and managed.
The Board of Directors has two advisory committees. In relation to risk management, the Audit and Compliance Committee is responsible, among other functions, for knowing, supervising and assessing the process of drawing up and ensuring the integrity of financial and non-financial information, along with the systems for the control and management of the financial and nonfinancial risks of the Parent and, where appropriate, the Group — including operational, technological, cybersecurity, legal, social, environmental, political and reputational or corruption — by reviewing compliance with regulatory requirements, establishing the precise scope of the consolidation perimeter and ensuring the correct application of accounting standards.
In line with best good governance practices and with the provisions of the current regulatory framework, Internal Audit at Línea Directa is an independent area within the organisation. In accordance with the Bylaws and the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Directors, the Internal Audit function is functionally attached and reports to the Audit and Compliance Committee and is administratively subordinate to the Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Internal Audit seeks to ensure that the Company complies with regulatory requirements and achieves its strategic objectives and works to make the risk management processes and internal control framework more effective and efficient by providing a systematic and disciplined risk-based approach. The scope of such activities to be performed by the Internal Audit function and its own strategic objectives shall be determined by the Internal Audit Department, subject to the approval of the Audit Committee, as an independent area within the Group.
As a result of the organisational changes made in 2022, Línea Directa Aseguradora now has a Corporate Risks area, which brings together, within the same department, the rest of the key functions required under Solvency II: Risks, Compliance and Actuarial Function. The Risks Management Department also features Financial Reporting Control (ICFR) teams. The mission of the area is to build a global risk map of the Company and optimise the control environment so as to ensure the reliable assessment and identification of risks and their integration into forecasts and decision-making.
To ensure adequate management and control of each risk, the Company has built various levels of management or defence:
the first line of defence.
Without prejudice to the functions ascribed to the Board of Directors and its committees in the Board Regulations, Linea Directa Aseguradora has established a system of committees there to support the achievement of the strategic objectives and provide the Board of Directors, directly or through its committees, with all the information they need to make well-informed decisions.
The various committees are responsible for ensuring the proper implementation, maintenance and monitoring of the risk management system in accordance with the guidelines set out by the Board of Directors.
The most important committees to risk management are as follows:
Standing Risk Committee: responsible for facilitating and monitoring the implementation of effective risk management practices at the Línea Directa Aseguradora Group through the reporting of risks by the first lines of defence. It is tasked with controlling and monitoring risks by ensuring that Línea Directa has an adequate level of internal control compatible with the Group's standards and compliant with applicable law and regulations.
The Standing Risk Committee, through the Chief Risk Officer, will maintain fluid and constant communication with the Audit and Compliance Committee. To achieve this, each of the key functions and the Action Plans will be reported to the committee on a quarterly basis and its prior consent will be sought for risks that could have a significant impact on the Group were they to materialise, whether financial or reputational, or that could lead to the Company being held criminally liable.
The Reserves and Claims Committee: responsible for reserve and reinsurance credit risk management, claims monitoring and for drawing up the reinsurance table. It regularly reports to the Audit and Compliance Committee, through the Chief Financial Officer.
The Investment Committee is governed by the Investment Policy, as approved by the Board of Directors. It is chaired by the Chief Executive Officer and its functions include, among others, ensuring that investments are made in accordance with the Investment Objectives approved by Línea Directa's Board of Directors, and also in accordance with the Investment Policy.
The Investment Committee reports to the Board of Directors through the Chief Financial Officer. In any case, the Audit and Compliance Committee shall be regularly informed of all investment transactions approved by the Investment Committee or, as the case may be, by the Chief Financial Officer, thus contributing to the fulfilment of the Audit and Compliance Committee's role of overseeing the process of drawing up and ensuring the integrity of financial and non-financial information.
This structure guarantees:
Adequate control, management and reporting of all risks at various levels of "defence".
Risks are monitored and reported both vertically and horizontally by both dependent bodies and independent control functions.
The Group Risk Map is the tool that charts all identified risks, and sets out the measures used to assess and control them.
As part of its risk management system, the Parent Company carries out the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA), which shows the risk profile of Línea Directa Aseguradora S.A. and is essentially a risk management tool that helps to provide a comprehensive and complete view of all the risks inherent to the business. Decision-useful stress scenarios are defined as part of this process. The Audit and Compliance Committee steers the process and verifies and approves the results. The ORSA report contains a projection of capital consumption and available capital for the three-year time horizon.
The Corporate Risk Management Department collates all of the Group's risk information for regular reporting to the Audit and Compliance Committee. It also reports the status of the key risk indicators (KRI scorecard) to enable proper oversight by the Group's management bodies.
The regular risk reports are as follows:
The main risks that could affect the achievement of the Group's objectives can be broken down as follows:
The Group views credit risk as the threat of possible loss or adverse change in financial conditions resulting from fluctuations in the solvency or creditworthiness of issuers of securities, counterparties and any debtors to which the Group is exposed.
Given the nature of the Group's activities, its exposure to credit risk arises from the following factors:
The counterparties with which the Group acquires or may acquire significant positions must
invariably undergo a prior scoring process. These counterparties include companies that provide insurance for large vehicle fleets and, in particular, reinsurance companies. For the latter, a minimum credit rating of "A-" is required as a prerequisite for inclusion within the reinsurance programme. Exceptions to this solvency threshold, together with the reinsurance table for each year, are expressly approved by the Board of Directors.
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 41,746 | 51,661 |
| Debt securities with changes in equity | 759,821 | 618,778 |
| Assets at amortised cost | 15,456 | 123,448 |
| Total | 817,023 | 793,887 |
When it comes to investments, the Investment Committee approves new investment lines and verifies compliance with the Investment Guidelines.
The rating of debt securities, cash and cash equivalents is an average rating of that assigned to the issuer by three of the main rating agencies (Moody's, Fitch and DBRS) and presents the following classification at the end of 2023 and 2022:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| AAA | 55,512 | 13,304 |
| AA | 55,624 | 11,264 |
| A | 324,000 | 271,885 |
| BBB | 305,885 | 301,197 |
| BB | 12,740 | 10,359 |
| B | - | - |
| N/R | 6,060 | 10,769 |
| Total debt securities with changes in equity | 759,821 | 618,778 |
Unrated positions are mainly composed of representative debt securities whose issuer does not have a rating, but which nevertheless have an issue rating appropriate to the Group's investment policies.
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| A | 41,733 | 40,671 |
| BBB | 10 | 10,990 |
| BB | - | - |
| N/R | 3 | - |
| Total cash and cash equivalents | 41,746 | 51,661 |
The impairment losses recognised at year-end 2023 and 2022 are described in Note 7a) i.
At year-end 2023 and 2022, there were no non-performing balances that were not impaired.
In addition, up until November 2022, the Group had a monetary guarantee covering a public debt repo transaction (assignment with repurchase agreement of government bonds). Further information on this matter can be found in Note 7b) i.
The Group estimates a provision to cover possible non-payment of outstanding premium receipts and unissued premium receipts. It is included on the consolidated balance sheet, as part of the
provision for outstanding coverage, reducing its amount. These estimated amounts are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Receipts pending collection and fractions to be issued | 62,782 | 59,485 |
| Provision for premiums receivable and to be issued | (1,181) | (961) |
| 61,601 | 58,524 |
The impairment of premiums receivable and to be issued is calculated on the part of the tariff premiums accrued in the financial year net of the loading for contingencies which, foreseeably and in accordance with lessons learned from previous years, is not going to be collected. This will depend on the age of the premiums and, as the case may be, the current status of the claim before the courts. Note that certain premium receipts may require special treatment due to their unique characteristics or features.
The Group treats liquidity risk as the potential temporary inability to honour its payment obligations within the agreed timeframes, due to such obligations maturing before receivables from customers fall due or before financial investments reach maturity. The Group generates daily liquidity from premium income.
The Group manages liquidity risk prudently. The Group is committed at all times to having sufficient liquidity to be able to honour its payments to suppliers, policyholders and counterparties in due course. Consequently, cash management is always carried out with the utmost prudence, avoiding at all times any possible overdraft or overlimit situation. Therefore, forecasts are systematically drawn up of expected cash generation and cash requirements, which enable the Group's liquidity position to be determined and monitored on an ongoing basis.
In 2022 and 2023, it distributed several interim dividends (Note 15-d) which has had an impact on the Company's liquidity.
The debts shown under the heading "Liabilities at amortised cost" fall due in less than one year for both 2023 and 2022.
The maturities of lease liabilities at 31 December 2023 and 2022 are described in Note 9-b.
The table below shows the estimated timing of disbursements for insurance liabilities recognised at 31 December 2023 and 2022:
| Estimated cash outflows in the periods | Closing balance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 to 2033 | Subsequent periods |
||
| Liabilities for incurred claims | 247,844 | 63,759 | 30,861 | 15,301 | 8,024 | 10,170 | - 375,959 |
|
| Due on direct insurance business and coinsurance |
2,818 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,818 |
| Due on reinsurance business |
1,351 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,351 |
| Total | 252,013 | 63,759 | 30,861 | 15,301 | 8,024 | 10,170 | - | 380,128 |
| Estimated cash outflows in the periods | Closing balance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 to 2032 | Subsequent periods |
||
| Liabilities for incurred claims | 137,388 | 97,083 | 24,034 | 12,565 | 6,974 | 6,993 | 189 | 285,226 |
| Due on direct insurance business and coinsurance |
2,490 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,490 |
| Due on reinsurance business |
1,363 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,363 |
| Total | 141,241 | 97,083 | 24,034 | 12,565 | 6,974 | 6,993 | 189 | 289,079 |
The Group projects claims payments using, for the most significant business segment such as Motor insurance, the stochastic Merz & Wüthrich methodology, which is actuarially accepted and widespread for the projection of claims and is included in the set of methods based on "run-off triangles". For the other business segments, the projection of claims payments is made on the basis of payment patterns on the historical experience of each segment.
The table below shows the estimated timing of disbursements for the hedging derivatives recognised at 31 December 2023 and 2022:
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | Subsequent periods |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hedging derivatives | 2,075 | 503 | 315 | 339 | 392 | 2,284 | 5,908 |
| Total | 2,075 | 503 | 315 | 339 | 392 | 2,284 | 5,908 |
| 2022 | |||||||
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | Subsequent periods |
Total | |
| Hedging derivatives | 372 872 |
765 | 767 | 772 | 4,260 | 7,808 | |
| Total | 372 872 |
765 | 767 | 772 | 4,260 | 7,808 |
The classification of financial assets by maturity (for those with a specific or determinable maturity) is as follows:
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | Subsequent periods |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
232,943 | 89,424 | 91,011 | 47,578 | 41,616 | 257,250 | 759,821 |
| Debt securities | 232,943 | 89,424 | 91,011 | 47,578 | 41,616 | 257,250 | 759,821 |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | 15,456 | 15,456 | |||||
| Total | 248,399 | 89,424 | 91,011 | 47,578 | 41,616 | 257,250 | 775,277 |
| 2022 | |||||||
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | Subsequent periods |
Total | |
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
125,062 | 47,394 | 59,165 | 103,692 | 35,826 | 247,639 | 618,778 |
| Debt securities | 125,062 | 47,394 | 59,165 | 103,692 | 35,826 | 247,639 | 618,778 |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | 22,373 | 22,373 | |||||
| Total | 147,435 | 47,394 | 59,165 | 103,692 | 35,826 | 247,639 | 641,151 |
Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros and subsidiaries
The Group views market risk as the risk of loss or of adverse change in its financial situation, resulting directly or indirectly from fluctuations in the level and in the volatility of market prices of assets, liabilities and financial instruments.
The level of assumable risk for the financial investments undertaken by the Group is explained in the Investment Guidelines approved by the Board of Directors. This document describes the types of permitted assets for investment purposes, along with the maximum proportion of these assets within the portfolio, and authorises the Group's Investment Committee to undertake investments.
The Investment Committee, which meets monthly, is responsible for analysing the portfolio's performance, verifying compliance with the investment policy, approving new lines of investment, ensuring compliance with the Investment Guidelines and keeping the Board of Directors regularly informed.
The Group's activities are exposed to fair value interest rate risk arising from fixed-income instruments. The Group enters into fixed-to-floating interest rate swaps to hedge this risk [Note 7-b i)].
From the beginning of 2022, the impact of the war in Ukraine, rising interest rates and higher inflation have led to capital losses on the investments held by the Group, although these have been significantly reduced in 2023.
The following table provides significant information on the interest rate exposure of the Group's financial assets:
| Portfolio | Fixed interest rate | Floating interest rate | Not exposed to risk | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |
| Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Debt securities | 697,234 | 570,155 | 16,842 | 2,878 | 45,745 | 40,884 | 759,821 | 613,917 |
| Financial assets at fair value through equity |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Debt securities | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 697,234 | 570,155 | 16,842 | 2,878 | 45,745 | 40,884 | 759,821 | 613,917 |
Assets not exposed to risk are subject to hedging through derivatives.
If interest rates at 31 December 2023 had been 100 basis points higher holding all other variables constant, other comprehensive income would have been € 20,584 thousand, gross of tax (€ 19,653 thousand in 2022) lower, mainly due to a decrease in the fair value of fixed rate financial assets classified as available-for-sale.
If interest rates at 31 December 2023 had been 100 basis points lower holding all other variables constant, other comprehensive income would have been € 22,228 thousand, gross of tax (€ 21,230 thousand in 2022) higher, mainly due to an increase in the fair value of fixed rate financial assets classified as available-for-sale.
The Group's activities are also exposed to equity risk, meaning the risk of a reduction in the return on equity investments due to changes in the market price of equities or equity-based indices or financial instruments.
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Equity instruments | 117,522 | 120,886 |
One of the standard metrics for measuring market risk is Value at Risk (VaR), which is based on a variance-covariance methodology using the historical volatility of stock index prices, exchange rates and yield curves, and the correlation between them, as the main inputs.
This risk metric measures the maximum potential loss of financial instruments due to adverse movements in equity prices, exchange rates and interest rates within a fixed period of time and with a specified confidence level (probability).
The Group uses this indicator as additional baseline information in conjunction with the other regular risk controls it runs on its investment portfolios. For the Group's own calculations, a confidence level of 99.5% and a 12-month period are used, implying that there is a 0.5% probability of underestimating the maximum potential loss for the next 12 months.
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed income duration (exc. Cash) | 3.13 | 3.62 |
| Fixed income modified duration | 3.22 | 3.8 |
| VaR | 1.35% | 2.30% |
A 10% fall in the market prices of the equity instruments included in "Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss" and "Financial assets at fair value through equity" at 31 December 2023 and 2022, all other variables being held constant, would have an impact on the Group's total equity and profit or loss of € 5,937 thousand in 2022, € 5,785 thousand in 2022, according to sensitivity calculations.
In 2016, Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the takingup and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II) entered into force for insurance undertakings. This Directive regulates the solvency calculation of insurance undertakings, to measure the ability of the undertakings to meet their future obligations. The result is to compare eligible own funds under Solvency II with the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR). The Solvency Capital Requirement includes all risks to which the undertaking is exposed (underwriting and nonlife health, market, counterparty and operational). The calculation is standardised at European level and is not an accounting ratio. The Parent's solvency ratio was 180% in 2023 and 188% in 2022.
The main sensitivities that have been performed on financial market risk are as follows:
Given the results of these solvency sensitivity analyses, it cannot be concluded that the risks threaten the target solvency ratio of 150% set by the Group's governing body.
Insurance business risk focuses on non-life and health underwriting risk, comprising mainly premium sub-risk (premium adequacy risk) and reserve sub-risk (insurance liability adequacy risk) for the Motor, Home, Health and Other insurance business segments. These risks are managed differently for each business line. Underwriting and health risks also include catastrophe risk and downside risk, with a lower impact than premium and reserve risks.
The Group analyses inherent insurance-related risks for each line of business, both in terms of premiums and reserves, depending on the unique characteristics of each segment.
In the Motor and Home segments, the technical rules and standards are constantly changing and underwriting is adapted accordingly through automatic and preventive mechanisms through which the various products are analysed in order to determine the sufficiency of premiums and insurance liabilities. Policy performance and returns are also monitored to analyse possible deviations.
The Motor segment has a longer duration between the opening and closing of claims than the Home segment, mainly due to the civil liability guarantee, which lasts longer than the other guarantees. The Health segment is heavily influenced by seasonality, with higher levels of policy renewal at the beginning of the year.
The Group relies on reinsurance as a primary tool for mitigating the premium, reserve and catastrophe sub-risks. Reinsurance also forms part of counterparty risk due to the risk of default of the amounts recoverable from the reinsurance companies.
The reinsurance system followed by the Group is based mainly on an Excess of Loss (XL) structure applied to each business segment to achieve protection against serious losses or catastrophic losses and events caused by natural phenomena not covered by the Insurance Compensation Consortium, using reinsurance to provide stability against this type of random natural catastrophes, for both occurrence and amount, as well as the quota share reinsurance arrangement for the Health insurance segment signed in 2017.
On 1 September 2017, the Parent entered into a quota share reinsurance contract for the health insurance business, which expires on 31 December 2029 and comes with a two-year renewal option. This contract includes an assignment of 50% of the premium income and claims cost of most of the policies of the Health segment.
Until 2022, the contract also included a table of fixed and variable reinsurance commissions payable to the Group. The fixed commission was calculated as a percentage of the premium ceded and as a fixed amount until 2022. The variable commission was calculated on the basis of the premiums assigned during the term of the contract of the year, and the performance of the claims ratio during the agreed years from 2022 onward. These commissions were capped. However, an addendum to the contract was signed in 2023, in which it was agreed that there would be no exchange of commissions between the parties.
It also envisions profit sharing at the Group based on whether positive technical results are obtained.
In the case of the early termination, compensation will be paid due to cancellation by any of the parties if they are unable to reach an agreement or in any other situation that frustrates the continuation and normal performance of the contract. However, early termination clauses that may
pose a threat to the effective transfer of risks and rewards relate in all cases to extremely remote situations.
The performance of the technical result and the credit recognised by the Group will depend on the changes in the main technical aggregates, such as premiums, claims incurred, and acquisition and administrative expenses. There may therefore be differences in respect of the business plan defined by the Group.
Reinsurers must be filed with the National Financial Services Commission, CNSF (Comisión Nacional de Servicios Financieros) and comply with strict security requirements. They must also possess outstanding ratings that demonstrate their financial solvency. Foreign entities must present a certificate of residence in Spain.
The criteria followed for establishing the reinsurance network requires at least an 'A' rating of reinsurance companies. However, a deposit clause will be included in contracts of reinsurance companies with an S&P of rating below AA-. Any exception is approved by the Board of Directors.
The ratings of the various entities that are included in the reinsurance network are reviewed on a quarterly basis, with monitoring of the credit risk ratings published by rating agencies of recognised prestige, to control any changes in probability of default of the commitments undertaken.
The Technical area of Línea Directa Aseguradora is responsible for modifying products and prices in accordance with the Group's general strategy for the Motor, Home and Other insurance businesses. All these modifications are supported by actuarial analyses documented in the related technical notes and approved by the Technical Committee, which is the body responsible for managing this sub-risk. The Health segment is monitored by the Health Technical area.
The Technical Committee takes operational decisions that affect prices and risk underwriting terms for the products offered by Línea Directa Aseguradora, ensuring that they are consistent with the strategy and objectives established by the Board of Directors. To do so, it considers the proposals presented by the Technical area, also taking into account data on the position of the business and the outlook provided by the relevant business areas for each of the segments.
In accordance with IFRS 17, and as explained in the note on valuation methods, for the calculation of the incurred claims provision the company performs a Best Estimate calculation discounted to the risk-free curve, based on the company's experience and expert judgement with a risk margin thereon.
To estimate the provision for claims in the home, other insurance, health and medical assistance segments, the Group analyses each claim on its merits.
The Claims and Reserves Committee is responsible for managing the Group's reserve risk and reinsurance credit risk. It is entrusted with monitoring the Group's reserves and insurance liabilities to ensure adequate coverage of claims, and with approving changes in the policies for the opening and provisioning of claims for all the different levels of coverage and guarantee, thus ensuring the adequacy of reserves, in accordance with the guidelines approved by the Group's Board of Directors.
Furthermore, to ensure that the Group complies with its obligations under Additional Provision 18 of Law 20/2015 of 14 July, and so that the technical provisions shown in the consolidated balance
sheet effectively reflect the obligations arising from the contracts underwritten, the controls listed below have been put in place for the posting of provisions for claims:
The Group's insurance business is located mainly within Spain, with no particularly significant concentration in any given geographical area.
The concentration of insurance contracts for those autonomous communities in Spain showing a concentration of more than 5% for the periods 2023 and 2022 is detailed below:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Andalusia | 23.36% | 23.20% |
| Catalonia | 21.17% | 20.80% |
| Madrid | 12.46% | 12.70% |
| Valencian Community | 12.11% | 12.20% |
| Murcia | 4.73% | 4.80% |
| Other | 26.17% | 26.30% |
| Total | 100.00% | 100.00% |
The Group's business focuses on non-life segments (mainly motor risks), which shows the following distribution:
| 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Risks Motor |
Multi-risks Home |
Other insurance businesses |
Risks Health |
|
| Revenue from contracts measured under the reinsurance Premium Allocation Method (PAA) |
960,266 | 782,686 | 146,847 | 784 | 29,949 |
| Revenues from recoveries of reinsurance |
20,575 | 6,138 | 3,717 | - | 10,720 |
| 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Risks Motor |
Multi-risks Home |
Other insurance businesses |
Risks Health |
|
| Revenue from contracts measured under the reinsurance Premium Allocation Method (PAA) |
925,444 | 757,858 | 138,034 | 1,100 | 28,452 |
| Revenues from recoveries of reinsurance |
16,461 | 1,678 | 483 | - | 14,300 |
At 31 December 2023 and 2022, the Group performed a mixed sensitivity analysis on certain key business parameters. Based on expert judgement and experience of the most sensitive parameters of the business, the effect of a 1% increase in the cost of claims and of a 1% increase in the combined ratio on profit for the year net of tax of each business unit (Motor, Home, Health and Other insurance), and therefore on consolidated equity, was analysed as a measure of sensitivity to insurance risk.
Impact on profit or loss of a 1% increase in the cost of claims by segment:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Motor | (6,529) | (5,587) |
| Home | (941) | (800) |
| Health | (143) | (143) |
| Other insurance businesses | (5) | (6) |
| Total | (7,618) | (6,536) |
With the same tax rate as the consolidated financial statements accounts, the change in net profit and consequently in consolidated equity would be € 5,108 thousand for 2023 and € 4,938 thousand for 2022.
Impact on profit or loss of a 1% increase in the combined ratio by segment:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Motor | (7,776) | (7,531) |
| Home | (1,420) | (1,298) |
| Health | (161) | (165) |
| Other insurance businesses | (8) | (11) |
| Total | (9,365) | (9,005) |
With the same tax rate as the consolidated financial statements accounts, the change in net profit and consequently in consolidated equity would be € 6,279 thousand for 2023 and € 6,801 thousand for 2022.
Combined ratio = (Benefits paid + change in incurred claims liabilities + net operating expenses reinsurance recoveries received - change in ceded incurred claims liabilities) / (Insurance contract income measured under PAA - Allocation of reinsurance contract premiums measured under PAA).
The combined ratio measures the impact of management costs and claims incurred in a financial year on the premiums for that year.
These sensitivity analyses show no direct impact on the solvency ratio due to the Group's
shareholder dividend policy, except for the impact associated with the increase in the claims ratio due to the increase in the combined ratio.
The Group views reputational risk as the potential loss of customers, reduction in revenues or legal proceedings that the Group may incur due to loss of reputation, bad image or negative publicity with stakeholders.
The Group's stakeholders —at whom it targets its corporate reputation actions and for whom the impact of reputational risk is included in the risk management system— are customers, employees, suppliers, public institutions, shareholders, society, the community, consumers, the press and media and the wider industry.
The Group attaches great importance to reputational risk management and therefore includes reputational risk management within the organisation's overall risk management system and has specific units in place to perform this function.
Thus, the function of reputational risk management falls upon the shoulders of the People and Communication Department, General Secretary's Office and Finance Department through the External Communication, Corporate Reputation and Risk Management and Internal Control departments, respectively.
As this is a non-regulatory risk, it is estimated through the ORSA exercise by the External Communication department, using an in-house methodology based on expert judgement.
The Group distinguishes between the following two main types of legal risk:
As these are both non-regulatory risks, they are estimated through the ORSA exercise by the Compliance area, using an in-house methodology based on expert judgement for regulatory risks, and qualitative analysis and a quantitative valuation based on the legal compliance risks map for compliance risks.
The Group treats operational risk as the potential loss due to inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or due to external events.
The Group considers losses caused by operational risks to be all the ways in which these risks may affect the Parent and its subsidiaries, such as economic losses, reputational damage, noncompliances with the law, technological or security failures or degradation of business processes or impact on customers or employees.
The Group's operational risk management system is structured as a cyclical process of continuous improvement consisting of the following phases (Identification, Assessment/Measurement, Mitigation and Monitoring and Control).
At 31 December 2023, the Group had a foreign currency position of € 23,184 thousand (31 December 2022: € 23,121 thousand). They relate to direct investments in financial instruments quoted in those currencies and there is no currency hedging whatsoever.
The following table shows the Group's exposure to foreign currency risk at 31 December 2023 and 2022, and the carrying amount of the Group's financial instruments or classes of financial instruments denominated in foreign currencies.
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assets | Liabilities | Assets | Liabilities | ||
| US dollar | 10,596 | - | 9,502 | - | |
| Pound sterling | 8,742 | - | 8,292 | - | |
| Swiss franc | 2,020 | - | 2,260 | - | |
| Danish kroner | - | - | 569 | - | |
| Other | 1,826 | - | 2,498 | - | |
| Total | 23,184 | - 23,121 |
- |
The Group has no significant exposure to any foreign currency.
The governing bodies receive information at least quarterly on the key risks to which the Group is exposed and the capital resources available to manage them, as well as on compliance with the limits set out in the risk appetite.
The Risk department, together with the Group's other divisions, periodically analyses the factors that could impact the business if they were to occur, including environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Based on this analysis, an assessment of the Group's key risks is made, taking into account prevention and mitigation measures.
The Group has established the management model, processes and methodology for assessing ESG risks. The ESG risk management model is a qualitative assessment with KPIs that help to identify risks that could be considered as more immediate threats and regular monitoring to help ensure the exchange of information between the areas responsible and the Group's Risk department.
The Group's ESG risk map shows the risks to which it is exposed, each of them linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other reporting frameworks (GRI or Spanish Law 11/2018, on non-financial information).
Although the Group does not operate in any critical sector in terms of climate change, it has specific policies and measures that allow us to manage resource consumption efficiently with the aim of minimising the impact on the environment.
The Group also has protocols and concrete measures in place to unlock the full potential of its employees by fostering diversity and inclusion, offering the best solutions to maintain employability and promoting a safe working environment and employee health.
Línea Directa's Sustainability Plan, in force for the 2023-2025 period, is aligned with the United Nations sustainable development strategy and is articulated through the ESG dimensions. The plan
consists of 6 objectives, 15 strategic lines of action and a total of 87 actions.
In 2023, Línea Directa achieved 100% compliance in each of the three dimensions of its Sustainability Plan, completing a total of 18 actions divided between an environmental pillar (4), a social pillar (8) and a Good Governance pillar (6). Moreover, in the third quarter of last year, the variable remuneration of part of the workforce (34%) was linked to the achievement of the key actions planned in the area of sustainability, and 30% of the variable remuneration of the CEO and the management team was linked to the achievement of the key actions of the Plan for 2023.
In the coming years, the Group will pursue the objectives of decarbonisation, dissemination of information on the management of risks and opportunities related to climate change and will continue to promote actions towards social contribution and attention to equality, diversity, disability, well-being and safety of employees. The Group will also review the investment portfolio and supply chain under ESG criteria, promoting sustainable business innovation. All of this accompanied by an ambitious ESG training plan for employees.
Meanwhile, the Group has joined the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TFCD), committing to incorporate and report on climate change governance, strategy, risk and opportunity management, metrics and objectives. In 2024, the first report on risks and opportunities will be approved and published following the recommendations of the TCFD.
As regards the carbon footprint, close to 99.9% of the Group's emissions derive from Scope 3, specifically from the purchase of products and services from Scope 1 suppliers and from financed emissions (Category 15).
The Sustainability Plan currently in force provides for a 5% annual reduction in the company's energy consumption, an objective that will have a direct impact on the reduction of the Group's carbon footprint in Scope 1 and Scope 2. This commitment has enabled the targets set for the past year to be amply achieved, as direct emissions in tonnes of carbon dioxide (Scope 1) have been reduced by 1.4% and, within Scope 2, indirect CO2 emissions (market-based) per electricity consumed (tonCO2 e) have fallen by 18.6%.
Línea Directa Group regularly reports the eligibility percentages of its premiums and assets (i.e. its investment portfolio and property). Currently, the percentage of eligible premiums and of premiums aligned with EU Taxonomy is 2.1%; 14.1% of the portfolio by turnover is eligible, and 12.7% of the investment portfolio by CapEx is sustainable according to the EU Taxonomy; the percentage of the investment portfolio by turnover aligned with the EU Taxonomy is 2.3%, and that of the investment portfolio by CapEx is 4.5%.
Under article 46 of the Solvency Directive and article 66 of Spanish Law 20/2015 on the management, supervision and solvency of insurance companies, the Group is required to have an effective internal control system in place. The system should include administrative and accounting procedures, an internal control framework, appropriate reporting arrangements at all levels of the undertaking and a compliance function, at least.
The control activities should be proportionate to the risks arising from the activities and processes being controlled.
It must ensure that the control and reporting mechanisms of the internal control system provide the administrative, management and control body with the information needed for decision-making
processes.
The Group has the processes necessary for the continuous identification, measurement, control, management and reporting of all the risks to which it is exposed or may be exposed in the future, at both the individual and aggregate level and based at all times on the principle of proportionality.
The Group has a risk map of the business processes that include all of its potentially serious inherent risks, with the residual risk level based on the effectiveness of existing controls. This covers specific significant transactions and the risks associated with each process.
Through the risks identified and the key risk indicators (KRIs) defined, the risk management system underpins the Group's process for defining strategies and decision-making, as these KRIs are included in the Group's scorecard, enabling proactive management of these risks.
This report is made available to the Board through reporting to the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Management Committee.
The Group has an effective risk management system that determines how to manage each risk category and area, and any risk aggregation. The risk management system assesses the overall solvency needs identified in the Group's assessment of its own risks (based on the ORSA principles), its legal capital requirements and risk tolerance limits, as well as the description of the frequency and content of the regular stress tests and situations that require specific stress tests. Policies are in place that define the risk categories and risk measurement methods.
The Board has set the risk profile and overall risk tolerance limits and supervises the committees established to monitor and manage potentially serious risks, through the Audit and Compliance Committee.
The internal control environment is therefore considered to have the control and notification mechanisms required to provide the Board of Directors with relevant and accurate information for decision-making. The controls are proportional to the risks and cover all of the Group's areas and lines of business.
The degree to which the risk culture and risk management system have been embedded makes it easier to understand the implications of decisions taken by the Board and Management, depending on the level of risk they are willing to assume.
The Corporate Risk Management department collates all of the Group's risk information for regular reporting to the Audit and Compliance Committee. It also reports the status of the key risk indicators (KRI scorecard) to enable proper oversight by the Group's management bodies.
The regular risk reports are as follows:
The Internal Audit function reports quarterly to the Audit and Compliance Committee on the followup of audits carried out.
The composition of cash and cash equivalents at banks, cheques and cash on hand at 31 December 2023 and 2022, in thousand euro, is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cash at credit institutions | 38,938 | 35,677 |
| Cash on hand | 3 | 6 |
| Financial instruments maturing within 3 months | 2,805 | 15,978 |
| Total | 41,746 | 51,661 |
Of the balance of cash at credit institutions at 31 December 2023 and 2022, € 30,169 thousand and € 26,362 thousand respectively correspond to balances with Bankinter, S.A. (see Note 20).
At 31 December 2023 and 2022, the Group held a current account that had been pledged to a reinsurer for a total of € 2,100 thousand to secure compliance with certain contractual obligations. The remaining amount of cash and cash equivalents is subject to no further restriction on its use and disposal.
The interest rate on the Company's current accounts is negotiated with each bank. In 2023, the current account in dollars earned an average yield of 4.80% (1.98% in 2022) and the current account with Bankinter earned a yield of 2.03% (in 2022, it was earning interest of 0.30% starting from November 2022).
The Group held euro-denominated cash only at year-end 2023 and 2022. Accrued interest is recorded under the sub-heading "Income from financial investments" in the consolidated statement of profit or loss.
The classification of financial assets by category and class at year-end 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss | ||
| Available-for-sale financial assets | - | - |
| Equity instruments | 53,998 | 48,806 |
| Listed | 8,029 | 9,039 |
| Non-listed | 45,970 | 39,767 |
| Total financial assets at fair value through profit or loss | 53,998 | 48,806 |
| Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income | ||
| Available-for-sale financial assets | - | - |
| Equity instruments | 63,524 | 72,080 |
| Listed | 63,524 | 55,859 |
| Non-listed | - | 16,221 |
| Debt securities | 759,821 | 618,778 |
| Listed | 759,821 | 618,778 |
| Total financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income | 823,345 | 690,858 |
| Hedging derivatives | 5,909 | 7,808 |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | ||
| Loans and receivables | 15,456 | 22,373 |
| Debt securities | - | - |
| Deposits with credit institutions | 4,209 | 4,515 |
| Receivables on direct insurance business – policyholders | - | - |
| Receivables on reinsurance business | 7,019 | 12,290 |
| Other receivables | 4,228 | 5,568 |
| Total financial assets at amortised cost | 15,456 | 22,373 |
| Total financial assets | 898,709 | 769,845 |
Financial assets break down as follows:
The sub-heading "Equity instruments" at year-end 2023 consists of
€ 63,524 thousand in shares classified under heading "Financial assets with changes in other equity" (€ 72,068 thousand in 2022) and shares in investment and venture capital funds amounting to € 53,998 thousand (€ 48,818 thousand in 2022) classified under heading "Financial assets with changes in profit or loss". Total investment in shares in 2023 includes € 15,541 thousand in two listed real estate investment companies in which a Bankinter Group financial institution has a stake (€ 16,183 thousand in 2022).
This sub-heading includes € 759,821 thousand in 2023 and € 618,778 thousand in 2022 corresponding to fixed income securities and their unmatured accrued interest, of which € 4,747 thousand related to significant shareholders at 31 December 2023 (31 December 2022: € 3,475 thousand).
In 2023 and 2022, accrued and unmatured interest on these investments amounted to € 5,820 thousand and € 6,105 thousand, respectively. The average return on the fixed income portfolio in 2023 was 2.60% (2.46% in 2022) and 5.01% on equities (12.59% in 2022).
At year-end 2023 and 2022, there were no impairment losses on these debt securities.
Details of financial assets at amortised cost are as follows:
At the end of 2023, long-term deposits in euro held with Banco Santander amounted to € 4,209 thousand (€ 4,515 thousand at the end of 2022).
The "Receivables on reinsurance business" sub-heading shows receivables from reinsurers under reinsurance arrangements.
On 1 September 2017, the Group entered into a quota share reinsurance contract for the health business, maturing on 31 December 2025 and with a two-year renewal option, which was subsequently extended to 2029. This contract includes a cession of 50% of most of the policies of the business covered.
At year-end 2023 and 2022, the balances comprising this sub-heading of the accompanying consolidated balance sheet were € 7,019 and € 12,290 thousand, respectively, mainly for health quota share reinsurance.
Heading "Hedging derivatives" includes 1 swap contract in 2023 (1 swap contract in 2022). In both 2023 and 2022, the swap has been recognised as an asset.
The balance at year-end 2023 and 2022 and changes during the year were as follows:
| 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closing value at 31.12.2022 |
Valuation adjustment |
Purchases/Sales | Closing value at 31.12.2023 |
|
| SWAP | 7,808 | (1,899) | - | 5,909 |
| SWAP | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 7,808 | (1,899) | - | 5,909 |
| 2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closing value at 31.12.2021 |
Valuation adjustment |
Purchases/Sales | Closing value at 31.12.2022 |
|
| SWAP | (6,292) | 14,100 | - | 7,808 |
| SWAP | (3,155) | 3,805 | (650) | - |
| Total | (9,447) | 17,905 | (650) | 7,808 |
The breakdown by type of contract at year-end 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| Type of asset | 2023 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counterparty | Number of contracts |
Book value |
Market value |
Nominal Value |
Rate Currency | ||
| Current account | BBVA S.A. | 1 | (1,356) | (1,356) | (1,356) | Eonia | EUR |
| Current account subtotal |
(1,356) | (1,356) | (1,356) | Eonia | EUR | ||
| Swap | BBVA, S.A. | 1 | 5,909 | 5,909 | 5,909 | EUR | |
| Subtotal – Swap | 5,909 | 5,909 | 5,909 | EUR | |||
| Total | 4,553 | 4,553 | 4,553 | EUR |
| Current account | BBVA, S.A. | 1 | (4,077) | (4,077) | (4,077) | Eonia | EUR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current account subtotal |
(4,077) | (4,077) | (4,077) | Eonia | EUR | ||
| Swaps | BBVA, S.A. | 1 | 7,808 | 7,808 | 7,808 | EUR | |
| Subtotal – Swap | 7,808 | 7,808 | 7,808 | EUR | |||
| Total | 3,731 | 3,731 | 3,731 | EUR |
The current account of the collateral swaps is not offset against the value of the swap and is therefore recorded separately.
The fair value is calculated as the present value of the outstanding flows between the two parties.
For these swaps, the risk arises from the interest rate or market risk of the underlying securities themselves. The derivative product associated with the underlying is also exposed to these same risks.
The hedged item consists of coupon payments of 2.45% on a BTPS bond on € 50,000 thousand until it matures on 1 September 2033. In exchange, the Company receives payments of Euribor 6M+1.03% on € 50,000 thousand of the BTPS bond until it matures on 1 September 2033.
The balances comprising the "Other receivables" sub-heading at the end of 2023 and 2022, and related impairment adjustments, are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bonds and deposits | 269 | 300 |
| Sundry receivables | 2,628 | 3,666 |
| Receivable from Group companies and associates | 416 | 447 |
| Impairment allowances on other receivables | (126) | (110) |
| Total | 3,187 | 4,303 |
"Sundry receivables" mainly includes the monthly settlement with TIREA for the agreement modules.
The fair value of financial assets based on the SPPI approach as at 31 December 2023 and 2022 and the change in fair value during each year are provided below. According to the SPPI criterion, assets are classified into two categories:
| Financial assets | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| Financial assets at fair value with changes in other comprehensive income and profit and loss |
877,343 | 739,664 |
| Equity instruments | 117,522 | 120,886 |
| Other | 117,522 | 120,886 |
| Debt securities | 759,821 | 618,778 |
| SPPI | 759,821 | 618,778 |
| Financial assets at amortised cost | ||
| Derivatives | 5,909 | 7,808 |
| Other | 5,909 | 7,808 |
| Loans and receivables | 14,415 | 21,108 |
| Debt securities | - | - |
| SPPI | - | - |
| Deposits with credit institutions | 4,209 | 4,515 |
| SPPI | 4,209 | 4,515 |
| Reinsurance receivables | 7,019 | 12,290 |
| SPPI | 7,019 | 12,290 |
| Other receivables | 3,187 | 4,303 |
| SPPI | 3,187 | 4,303 |
| Total financial assets | 897,667 | 768,580 |
The credit rating of fixed income issuers and deposits held at credit institutions at 31 December 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | AAA | AA | A | BBB | Below investment grade | No rating | Total |
| Public fixed income | |||||||
| SPPI | 44,868 | 30,084 | 146,486 | 158,196 | 1,031 | - | 380,665 |
| Private fixed income | |||||||
| SPPI | 10,644 | 25,541 | 177,514 | 147,688 | 11,709 | 6,060 | 379,156 |
| Total fixed income | 55,512 | 55,625 | 324,000 | 305,884 | 12,740 | 6,060 | 759,821 |
| % fixed income | 7% | 7% | 43% | 40% | 2% | 1% | 100% |
| Deposits with credit institutions | - | - | 4,209 | - | - | - | 4,209 |
| SPPI | - | - | 4,209 | - | - | - | 4,209 |
| 2022 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | AAA | AA | A | BBB | Below investment grade | No rating | Total |
| Public fixed income | |||||||
| SPPI | 5,082 | 2,927 | 171,476 | 177,011 | - | - | 356,496 |
| Private fixed income | |||||||
| SPPI | 8,222 | 8,337 | 100,409 | 124,186 | 10,359 | 10,769 | 262,282 |
| Total fixed income | 13,304 | 11,264 | 271,885 | 301,197 | 10,359 | 10,769 | 618,778 |
| % fixed income | 2% | 2% | 44% | 49% | 2% | 2% | 100% |
| Deposits with credit institutions | 4,515 | - | - | - | - | - | 4,515 |
| SPPI | 4,515 | - | - | - | - | - | 4,515 |
The credit rating is based on the scales used by the major international credit agencies.
The amount of net gains and losses by category of financial asset at year-end 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial assets at amortised cost |
Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss |
Other financial assets |
|
| Interest on bank deposits | 1,596 | - | - | - |
| Income from premium instalments | 4,738 | - | - | - |
| Fixed income expected loss | - | (40) | - | - |
| Net losses on swap valuation | - | - | - | 9,026 |
| Equity valuation losses | - | - | (2,724) | - |
| Losses on realisation of investments | - | (2,519) | - | - |
| Interest on fixed-income securities | - | 16,854 | - | - |
| Income on equity instruments | - | 3,010 | - | - |
| Net valuation gains on fixed income securities covered by swap |
- | - | - | (9,026) |
| Gains/(losses) on realisation of investments | - | 2,683 | - | - |
| Gains/(losses) on valuation of investments | - | - | 4,530 | - |
| Positive exchange differences | - | 48 | - | - |
| Negative exchange differences | - | (139) | (223) | - |
| Other expenses | - | - | - | 3,107 |
| Net result in profit and loss | 6,334 | 19,897 | 1,583 | 3,107 |
| Change in fair value OCI | - | 24,084 | - | - |
| Realisation of equity instruments OCI | - | 3,237 | - | - |
| Net result in other comprehensive income | - | 27,321 | - | - |
| Financial assets at amortised cost |
Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income |
Other financial assets |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest on bank deposits | 185 | - | - |
| Income from premium instalments | 4,571 | - | - |
| Net losses on swap valuation | - | - | 20,843 |
| Losses on realisation of investments | - | (5,464) | - |
| Interest on fixed-income securities | - | 15,343 | - |
| Income on equity instruments | - | 8,248 | - |
| Net valuation gains on fixed income securities covered by swap |
- | - | (20,843) |
| Gains/(losses) on realisation of investments | - | 12,647 | - |
| Positive exchange differences | - | 3,269 | - |
| Negative exchange differences | - | 498 | - |
| Other expenses | - | - | (645) |
| Net result in profit and loss | 4,756 | 34,541 | (645) |
| Change in fair value | - | (97,622) | - |
| Net result in other comprehensive income | - | (97,622) | - |
Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros and subsidiaries
2022
In both 2023 and 2022, financial derivatives have been classified as financial assets due to their valuation.
The amounts of fair value hedge adjustments made to the hedged item recognised in the income statement are as follows:
| 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2023 |
Nominal | Book value |
Heading of the consolidated balance sheet |
Changes in fair value used as the basis for recognising ineffectiveness in the period |
Ineffectiveness reported |
| Hedging derivatives | 50,000 | 5,909 | Hedging derivatives | (1,899) | - |
| 2023 | |||||
| 31 December 2023 | Nominal | Book value |
Heading of the consolidated balance sheet |
Cumulative fair value adjustment on the hedged item |
Changes in fair value used as the basis for recognising ineffectiveness in the period |
| Fixed-income instruments | 50,000 | 45,745 | Debt securities | 4,861 | (1,899) |
| 2022 | |||||
| 31 December 2022 | Nominal | Book value |
Heading of the consolidated balance sheet |
Changes in fair value used as the basis for recognising ineffectiveness in the period |
Ineffectiveness reported |
| Hedging derivatives | 50,000 | 7,808 | Hedging derivatives | 14,303 | - |
| 2022 | |||||
| 31 December 2022 | Nominal | Book value |
Heading of the consolidated balance sheet |
Cumulative fair value adjustment on the hedged item |
Changes in fair value used as the basis for recognising ineffectiveness in the period |
| Fixed-income instruments | 50,000 | 40,884 | Debt securities | (15,817) | 13,813 |
The group calculated expected loss at -€ 244 thousand on the transition date to IFRS 9. The changes in this expected loss during the year and the allocation of "stages" of debt securities (not including coupon accruals) were as follows:
| 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Total | |||||
| Market value |
Expected loss |
Market value |
Expected loss |
Market value |
Expected loss |
||
| Balance at 1 January 2023 | 612,672 | (244) | - | - | 612,672 | (244) | |
| Transfer to Stage 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Expected loss originated or due to purchases |
276,278 | (60) | - | - | 276,278 | (60) | |
| Maturities or sales | (182,140) | 17 | - | - | (182,140) | 17 | |
| New measurements | 47,474 | 2 | - | - | 47,474 | 2 | |
| Change in expected loss | - (41) |
- | - | - | (41) | ||
| Balance at 31 December 2023 | 754,284 | (285) | - | - | - | (285) |
Details of financial assets at fair value by valuation level are as follows:
| 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair value | ||||
| Book value | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | |
| Financial assets at fair value through changes in equity | 823,345 | 756,174 | 51,632 | 15,541 |
| Equity instruments | 63,524 | 47,984 | - | 15,541 |
| Listed | 47,984 | 47,984 | - | - |
| Non-listed | 15,541 | - | - | 15,541 |
| Debt securities | 759,821 | 708,190 | 51,632 | - |
| Listed | 759,821 | 708,190 | 51,632 | - |
| Non-listed | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 823,345 | 756,174 | 51,632 | 15,541 |
| 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair value | ||||
| Book value | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | |
| Financial assets at fair value through changes in P&L | 53,999 | 8,029 | 28 | 45,942 |
| Equity instruments | 53,999 | 8,029 | 28 | 45,942 |
| Listed | 8,029 | 8,029 | - | - |
| Non-listed | 45,970 | - | 28 | 45,942 |
| Debt securities | - | - | - | - |
| Listed | - | - | - | - |
| Non-listed | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 53,999 | 8,029 | 28 | 45,942 |
Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros and subsidiaries
| 2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair value | ||||
| Book value | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | |
| Financial assets at fair value through changes in equity | 690,846 | 673,668 | 985 | 16,193 |
| Equity instruments | 72,068 | 55,875 | - | 16,193 |
| Listed | 55,875 | 55,875 | - | - |
| Non-listed | 16,193 | - | - | 16,193 |
| Debt securities | 618,778 | 617,793 | 985 | - |
| Listed | 618,778 | 617,793 | 985 | - |
| Non-listed | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 690,846 | 673,668 | 985 | 16,193 |
| 2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair value | ||||
| Book value | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | |
| Financial assets at fair value through changes in P&L | 48,818 | 9,039 | 28 | 39,751 |
| Equity instruments | - | 9,039 | 28 | 39,751 |
| Listed | 9,039 | 9,039 | - | - |
| Non-listed | 39,779 | - | 28 | 39,751 |
| Debt securities | - | - | - | - |
| Listed | - | - | - | - |
| Non-listed | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 48,818 | 9,039 | 28 | 39,751 |
The fair values of non-current loans and receivables are not included because their carrying amounts are a reasonable approximation of fair value.
To determine Level 2 fair values for the years 2023 and 2022, a model has been used in which discounted future cash flows, including the redemption value, are discounted from a yield curve with two main components:
The following table sets out the valuation methods used in 2023 and 2022 to determine Tier 3 fair values, along with the unobservable inputs used and the interrelationship between key inputs and fair value.
| Rate | Valuation method | Variables used (non |
Interrelationship between key variables and fair value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net asset value of investments in private equity funds with renewable energy generating assets as the underlying |
Discounted cash flows: the most widely accepted method, which treats the investment as a cash flow generator. To obtain its value, this method calculates the present value of the future cash flows by taking into account the implicit risk of achieving them. Thus, the discounted cash flow method estimates the cash flows that the asset/investment will generate in the future, and then discounts them at an appropriate discount rate, depending on the risk associated with achieving those cash flows. The discount rate used is based on the resulting WACC (weighted average cost of capital), according to the different sources of financing (equity vs. debt) and their respective weights. For the 2023 measurements, the discount rate is between 4.65% and 7%. For 2022, the discount rate is between 3% and 6%. |
WACC and return on investment |
The higher the WACC the lower the fair value, and the higher the return on investment the higher the fair value (bearing in mind that income depends on prevailing regulations) |
| Net asset value of the underlying funds |
As funds of funds, the value of each unit is calculated as the sum of the net asset values provided by each of the underlying funds. Valuation as per the amounts communicated by the fund management companies, which are compared with the net asset values included in the annual accounts. All fund management companies are filed and registered with the CNMV. In each fund, fair value is calculated in accordance with the valuation reports and financial statements provided by each investee. |
Net asset value of each fund % holding in the portfolio of each fund |
The higher the net asset value of the underlying funds, the higher the value of these funds. The higher the percentage holding in the underlying funds, the greater the proportional value of that fund to the investing funds. |
| Net asset value of shares |
Relates to shares held in SOCIMIs (Spanish REITs). The valuation methodology is based on the standards and techniques recommended by RICS, using the relevant methods of comparison (comparable transactions) and cash flow discounts (based on the estimated income and expenses of the asset over a 10-year period). |
Market data on returns, discount rates and annual valuation by an independent expert. |
The higher the value of the property investments, the higher the net asset value of the company. |
| Net asset value of loans |
The manager of the BNY Mellon fund conducts a daily valuation of the fund. In carrying out its calculation, the fund manager relies on public sources to retrieve the daily price of the loans. These public sources are independent price providers, such as Bloomberg, Markit and Reuters. These price providers generate their information from actual transactions supplied to them by the trading desks of the main financial institutions, on the basis of cross-trading during the day and the level of supply and demand for each loan during the day. |
Quotations provided by the trading desks of the main financial institutions. Specialist sources, Markit Partners/LoanX and IDC/Reuters |
Prices calculated on the basis of the information supplied to them by the trading desks of the main financial institutions. |
The Investment Committee is responsible for supervising and controlling investments and their financial results, together with economic and financial information, and ensuring compliance with the Investment Guidelines to which the Group is subject.
Changes in financial assets measured in accordance with valuation techniques based on unobservable data (Tier 3) are as follows:
| Equity instruments | Non- listed |
|---|---|
| Balance at 31 December 2021 | 56,478 |
| Purchases | 6,107 |
| Sales | (3,202) |
| Transfers to Tier 1 | (7,000) |
| Realised gains / (losses) | 1,125 |
| Changes in valuation through profit or loss | 2,452 |
| Balance at 31 December 2022 | 55,960 |
| Purchases | 7,561 |
| Sales | (2,639) |
| Tier transfers | - |
| Realised gains / (losses) | 1,153 |
| Changes in valuation through profit or loss | (552) |
| Balance at 31 December 2023 | 61,483 |
The amounts recognised under "Other comprehensive income" can be found under the sub-heading "Gains/(losses) on valuation adjustments" in the consolidated statement of other comprehensive income.
During the year ended 31 December 2023, there were no transfers of financial assets between the different tiers. During the year ended 31 December 2022, there was a transfer of financial assets from Tier 3 to Tier 1 Logistics, amounting to € 7,000 thousand. The Group considers transfers between tiers to occur on the date on which the event or change in circumstances that caused the reclassification occurs (IFRS 13.95).
The classification of financial liabilities by category and class at year-end 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Financial liabilities at amortised cost | ||
| Debt and accounts payable | ||
| Due on insurance business with policyholders | 1,752 | 2,009 |
| Due on insurance business with brokers | 1,066 | 481 |
| Due on reinsurance business | 1,351 | 1,363 |
| Taxes and social security payable | 15,221 | 15,520 |
| Other debts | 45,923 | 39,915 |
| Total financial liabilities at amortised cost | 65,313 | 59,288 |
| Hedging derivatives | - | - |
| Total hedging derivatives | - | - |
| Total financial liabilities | 65,313 | 59,288 |
Details of financial liabilities at amortised cost are as follows:
The sub-heading "Due on reinsurance business" shows the debts owed to reinsurers. The balances comprising this sub-heading of the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at year-end 2023
and 2022 are as follows, by reinsurance type:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Reinsurance fines and other guarantees | 1,351 | 1,363 |
| XL reinsurance | - | - |
| Total | 1,351 | 1,363 |
Details of the sub-heading "Other payables" at year-end 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Suppliers of goods and services | 39,490 | 31,750 |
| Right-of-use liabilities | 2,041 | 3,768 |
| Outstanding remunerations | 4,392 | 4,397 |
| Total other debts | 45,923 | 39,915 |
The "Outstanding remuneration" sub-heading includes other recurring incentives, of an annual, quarterly and monthly nature, pending payment for € 4,392 thousand as at 31 December 2023 (€ 4,397 thousand at December 2022).
Details of movements in lease liabilities during the years ended 31 December 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Balance at the beginning of the year | 3,768 | 4,534 |
| Additions | - | 1,495 |
| Withdrawals | (294) | - |
| Finance expenses | (39) | (63) |
| Payments | (1,394) | (2,198) |
| Balance at the end of the year | 2,041 | 3,768 |
The contractual maturities of undiscounted lease liabilities, i.e., including future interest payable, for the years 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Within one year | 1,865 | 1,913 |
| Between 1 and 5 years | 257 | 1,762 |
| Beyond 5 years | - | - |
| Total future payments | 2,122 | 3,675 |
The discount rate used by the Group is the incremental borrowing rate, which is the rate at which the Group could obtain financing under comparable terms and conditions.
The weighted average incremental borrowing rate was 1.29% and 1.45% for 2023 and 2022, respectively.
The fair value of derivatives is calculated through the use of valuation techniques. Valuation
techniques maximise the use of available observable market data and rely as little as possible on entity-specific estimates.
As all significant inputs required to calculate their fair value are observable, the swaps are included in Tier 2. The fair value has been calculated as the current value of estimated future cash flows based on estimated interest rate curves.
For current debts and payables, details of fair values have not been provided because their carrying amounts are a reasonable approximation of fair value.
During the years ended 31 December 2023 and 2022, there were no transfers of financial liabilities between the different tiers.
At 31 December 2023 and 2022, the balance of this sub-heading in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet and the changes therein during those years are as follows:
| Land | Buildings | Plant | IT equipment | Furniture and other property, plant and equipment |
Assets in course of construction |
Total property, plant and equipment |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost at 31.12.2021 | 17,905 | 25,217 | 20,664 | 16,241 | 6,936 | 98 | 87,061 |
| Additions | 1,725 | 42 | 846 | 775 | 88 | 250 | 3,726 |
| Withdrawals | - | - | (25) | (3,627) | 6 | - | (3,646) |
| Transfers | - | - | 88 | - | - | (88) | - |
| Cost at 31.12.2022 | 19,630 | 25,259 | 21,572 | 13,389 | 7,030 | 260 | 87,140 |
| Additions | - | - | 356 | 1,126 | 26 | 57 | 1,565 |
| Withdrawals | - | (2) | - | (2,066) | (2) | (19) | (2,089) |
| Transfers | (300) | 13 | 549 | - | - | (262) | - |
| Cost at 31.12.2023 | 19,330 | 25,270 | 22,477 | 12,449 | 7,054 | 36 | 86,616 |
| Accumulated amortisation | |||||||
| at 31.12.2021 | - | (7,120) | (15,641) | (12,419) | (4,366) | - | (39,546) |
| Additions | - | (505) | (1,204) | (1,563) | (327) | - | (3,599) |
| Withdrawals | - | - | - | 3,624 | - | - | 3,624 |
| Transfers | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Accumulated amortisation | (7,625) | (16,845) | (10,358) | (4,689) | - | (39,521) | |
| at 31.12.2022 | - | ||||||
| Additions | - | - | (220) | (152) | (1,255) | (398) | (2,025) |
| Withdrawals | - | (477) | - | 714 | 2 | 19 | 258 |
| Transfers | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Accumulated amortisation | - | (8,102) | (17,065) | (9,796) | (5,942) | (379) | (41,288) |
| at 31.12.2023 | |||||||
| Impairment provision | (2,251) | - | - | - | - | - | (2,251) |
| at 31.12.2021 | |||||||
| Impairment provision | - | - | - | - | - | (2,251) | |
| at 31.12.2022 | (2,251) | ||||||
| Impairment provision | (2,251) | - | - | - | - | - | (2,251) |
| at 31.12.2023 | |||||||
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2021 | 15,654 | 18,097 | 5,023 | 3,822 | 2,570 | 98 | 45,264 |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2022 | 17,379 | 17,634 | 4,727 | 3,031 | 2,337 | 260 | 45,368 |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2023 | 17,079 | 17,168 | 5,412 | 2,653 | 1,112 | (343) | 43,077 |
The main additions at 31 December 2023 and 2022 relate to information processing equipment and the acquisition of a car park.
In 2023 and 2022, the Group derecognised fully depreciated items of property, plant and equipment amounting to € 2,054 thousand and € 3,624 thousand, respectively.
At 31 December 2023 and 2022, no impairment losses had been recognised.
The Group has taken out insurance policies with third parties to cover risks that could affect its property, plant and equipment. The coverage provided under these policies is considered sufficient.
The following table provides a breakdown of the fair value at 31 December 2023 and 2022 of the properties included under property, plant and equipment, such fair value as determined by an authorised property valuation company [see Note 3f)]:
| 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Cost value | Accumulated amortisation |
Impairment | Net book value |
Market value |
||
| Land and buildings at I. Newton 7, Tres Cantos | 5,394 | (2,015) | - | 3,379 | 11,314 | ||
| Land and buildings at I. Newton 9, Tres Cantos | 7,371 | (1,500) | (734) | 5,137 | 5,457 | ||
| Land and buildings at Ronda Europa 7, Tres Cantos | 21,853 | (4,003) | (1,273) | 16,577 | 17,413 | ||
| Land and buildings at Torres Quevedo 1, Tres Cantos | 6,199 | (269) | (106) | 5,824 | 7,860 | ||
| Land and buildings at Avda. El Sol 9, Torrejón de Ardoz | 2,347 | (342) | (138) | 1,867 | 1,911 | ||
| C/ Einstein 1, Tres Cantos | 1,425 | - | - | 1,425 | 1,425 | ||
| Total | 44,589 | (8,129) | (2,251) | 34,209 | 45,380 |
| 2022 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Cost value | Accumulated amortisation |
Impairment | Net book value |
Market value |
||
| Land and buildings at I. Newton 7, Tres Cantos | 5,394 | (1,920) | - | 3,474 | 11,314 | ||
| Land and buildings at I. Newton 9, Tres Cantos | 7,371 | (1,423) | (734) | 5,214 | 5,457 | ||
| Land and buildings at Ronda Europa 7, Tres Cantos | 21,853 | (3,766) | (1,275) | 16,812 | 17,413 | ||
| Land and buildings at Torres Quevedo 1, Tres Cantos | 6,199 | (201) | (105) | 5,893 | 7,860 | ||
| Land and buildings at Avda. El Sol 9, Torrejón de Ardoz | 2,347 | (315) | (137) | 1,895 | 1,911 | ||
| C/ Einstein 1, Tres Cantos | 1,725 | - | - | 1,725 | 1,725 | ||
| Total | 44,889 | (7,625) | (2,251) | 35,013 | 45,680 |
The market value is based on the comparison method (based on the replacement principle), which values property assets by comparison with other property values on the market and, on the basis of concrete information on actual transactions and firm offers, derives current cash purchase prices for these properties on the basis of homogenisation coefficients (Tier 2).
The Group's investment property comprises property assets held for lease. In 2023, rental income from investment property owned by the Group amounted to € 4,591 thousand (2022: € 4,358 thousand), as recognised under "Income from property, plant and equipment and from investments" in the accompanying consolidated statement of profit or loss.
Activity recognised under this sub-heading in 2023 and 2022 has been as follows:
| Land | Buildings | Plant | Total investments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost at 31.12.2021 | 32,409 | 38,396 | 289 | Property 71,094 |
| Additions | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Cost at 31.12.2022 | 32,409 | 38,396 | 292 | 71,097 |
| Additions | 502 | - | - | 502 |
| Withdrawals | (1,961) | (4,941) | - | (6,902) |
| Cost at 31.12.2023 | 30,950 | 33,455 | 292 | 64,697 |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2021 | - | (5,517) | (120) | (5,637) |
| Additions | - | (767) | (17) | (778) |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2022 | - | (6,284) | (137) | (6,421) |
| Additions | - | (669) | (15) | (684) |
| Withdrawals | - | 931 | - | 931 |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2023 | - | (6,022) | (152) | (6,174) |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2021 | 32,409 | 32,879 | 169 | 65,457 |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2022 | 32,409 | 32,112 | 155 | 64,676 |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2023 | 30,950 | 27,433 | 140 | 58,523 |
At year-end 2023 and 2022, there were no restrictions whatsoever on the realisation of new investment property or on the collection of income therefrom, or on the proceeds from any possible sale or disposal. Furthermore, no investment property was subject to guarantees or reversion.
The amortisation rates used are described in Note 3f) of these notes to the consolidated financial statements.
On 5 December 2023, the building located at Calle José Echegaray 9 was sold, resulting in a realised gain of € 1,417 thousand in profit or loss. No investment property was disposed of in 2022.
At 31 December 2023 and 2022, no impairment losses had been recognised.
All properties were insured against the risk of fire and third-party liability in 2023 and 2022.
The following table provides a comparison between the carrying amount and the fair value of investment property (land and buildings), as determined by an authorised property valuation company [see Note 3f)], at 31 December 2023 and 2022.
| 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Cost value | Accumulated amortisation |
Impairment | Net book value |
Fair value |
||
| C/ Chamberí 8, Madrid | 42,524 | (3,323) | - | 39,201 | 52,574 | ||
| Avda. de Bruselas 22, Madrid | 21,881 | (2,699) | - | 19,182 | 25,345 | ||
| Total | 64,405 | (6,022) | - | 58,383 | 77,919 |
| 2022 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Cost value | Accumulated amortisation |
Impairment | Net book value |
Fair value |
||
| C/ José Echegaray 9, Madrid | 6,902 | (931) | - | 5,971 | 8,023 | ||
| C/ Chamberí 8, Madrid | 42,022 | (2,968) | - | 39,054 | 52,574 | ||
| Avda. de Bruselas 22, Madrid | 21,881 | (2,385) | - | 19,496 | 25,345 | ||
| Total | 70,805 | (6,284) | - | 64,521 | 85,942 |
The rental income discount method is used to obtain fair value. This method discounts expected future profits (expected cash flows from rent or associated economic activity) and uses unobservable inputs such as current occupancy and the probability of future occupancy and/or current or expected delinquency of collections (Tier 2).
Future receivables from undiscounted operating leases for the years 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Within one year | 4,329 | 3,225 |
| Between 1 and 5 years | 4,290 | 2,851 |
| Beyond 5 years | - | - |
| Total future receivables | 8,619 | 6,076 |
At 31 December 2023 and 2022 the balance of this heading related entirely to software. Changes in 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| Software | Immobilised assets in progress |
Other | Total Intangible fixed assets |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost at 31.12.2021 | 94,693 | 2,388 | - | 97,081 |
| Additions | 1,320 | 3,518 | - | 4,838 |
| Withdrawals | - | - | - | - |
| Transfers | 930 | (930) | - | - |
| Cost at 31.12.2022 | 96,943 | 4,976 | - | 101,919 |
| Additions | 2,396 | 3,948 | 12,386 | 18,730 |
| Withdrawals | (7,777) | - | - | (7,777) |
| Transfers | 3,903 | (3,903) | - | - |
| Cost at 31.12.2023 | 95,465 | 5,021 | 12,386 | 112,872 |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2021 | (82,960) | - | - | (82,960) |
| Additions | (4,477) | - | - | (4,477) |
| Withdrawals | - | - | - | - |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2022 | (87,437) | - | - | (87,437) |
| Additions | (13) | - | - | (13) |
| Withdrawals | 3,766 | - | - | 3,766 |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2023 | (83,684) | - | - | (83,684) |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2021 | 11,733 | 2,388 | - | 14,121 |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2022 | 9,506 | 4,976 | - | 14,482 |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2023 | 11,781 | 5,021 | 12,386 | 29,188 |
Additions recognised in 2023 largely related to the acquisition of software licenses and other rights of use, while in 2022 they related to technological developments and the purchase of software licenses.
Retirements in 2023 were mostly due to software licence terminations, while in 2022 no retirements took place.
At 31 December 2023 and 2022 there were no intangible assets subject to guarantees or reversals.
The Group considers rights-of-use to be an intangible asset with an indefinite useful life and will therefore be subject to an annual impairment test in accordance with IAS 38.
The following table provides a breakdown of this heading at 31 December 2023 and 2022.
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Right-of-use assets | 1,992 | 3,621 |
| Accruals | 4,881 | 3,326 |
| Other assets | 633 | 630 |
| Total | 7,506 | 7,577 |
At 31 December 2022, the sub-heading "Accruals" includes the cost of certain services prepaid by the Group and accrued in 2023, amounting to € 3,326 thousand (€ 3.326 thousand in 2022).
Details and movements by asset class for right-of-use assets in 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| Buildings | Furniture and other property, plant and equipment |
Total right-of use assets |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost at 31.12.2021 | 3,596 | 7,766 | 11,362 |
| Additions | - | 556 | 556 |
| Withdrawals | (159) | - | (159) |
| Cost at 31.12.2022 | 3,437 | 8,322 | 11,759 |
| Additions | 486 | - | 486 |
| Withdrawals | - | (2,365) | (2,365) |
| Cost at 31.12.2023 | 3,923 | 5,957 | 9,880 |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2021 | (1,999) | (4,867) | (6,866) |
| Additions | (367) | (905) | (1,272) |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2022 | (2,366) | (5,772) | (8,138) |
| Additions | (635) | - | (635) |
| Withdrawals | - | 885 | 885 |
| Accumulated amortisation at 31.12.2022 | (3,001) | (4,887) | (7,888) |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2021 | 1,597 | 2,899 | 4,496 |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2022 | 1,071 | 2,550 | 3,621 |
| Carrying amount at 31.12.2023 | 922 | 1,070 | 1,992 |
The "Buildings" heading mainly includes offices and car parks leased by the Group to third parties. The average duration of these contracts is 6 years. The lease term has been determined as the noncancellable period together with the contractual renewal options that the Group is reasonably certain to exercise.
"Furniture and other property, plant and equipment" mainly shows the leasing of replacement vehicles which the Group offers to insured customers while their vehicle is under repair. The average duration of these vehicle leasing contracts is 3 years. The lease term has been determined as the non-cancellable period on the basis of the vehicle leasing contracts.
As indicated in note 3g), the Group has chosen not to recognise in the Statement of Financial Position lease liabilities and right-of-use assets relating to short-term leases (leases for a period of one year or less) nor leases of low value assets (amount equal to or less than € 5 thousand).
The expense associated with these exemptions is classified in the consolidated statement of profit or loss by purpose and in the statement of cash flows under the sub-heading "Payments for other activities". The total lease expense subject to IFRS 16 treatment but exempted by term or amount, amounted to € 5 thousand in 2023 (2022: € 471 thousand).
In 2023 and 2022, the Group did not incur any expenses for variable lease payments.
The breakdown of reinsurance contract assets and insurance contract liabilities by business segment at the end of 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 31 December 2023 | Motor | Home | Health | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assets under reinsurance contracts held | 12,354 | 9,249 | 10,336 | - | 31,939 |
| Assets for remaining coverage | - | - | 6,166 | - | 6,166 |
| Assets for remaining coverage under PAA | - | - | 6,166 | - | 6,166 |
| Assets for remaining coverage | - | - | 4,621 | - | 4,621 |
| Recovery component | - | - | 1,545 | - | 1,545 |
| Assets for incurred claims | 12,354 | 9,249 | 4,170 | - | 25,773 |
| FCF present value estimates | 11,382 | 8,655 | 3,985 | - | 24,022 |
| Risk adjustment | 972 | 594 | 185 | - | 1,751 |
| Liabilities under insurance contracts | 621,613 | 85,311 | 8,153 | 234 | 715,311 |
| Liabilities for remaining coverage | 284,233 | 55,307 | (221) | 33 | 339,352 |
| Liabilities for remaining coverage under PAA | 284,233 | 55,307 | (221) | 33 | 339,352 |
| Liabilities for remaining coverage | 284,233 | 55,307 | (3,310) | 33 | 336,263 |
| Loss component | - | - | 3,089 | - | 3,089 |
| Liabilities for incurred claims | 337,380 | 30,004 | 8,374 | 201 | 375,959 |
| FCF present value estimates | 311,721 | 27,902 | 8,000 | 201 | 347,824 |
| Risk adjustment | 25,659 | 2,102 | 374 | - | 28,135 |
| 31 December 2022 | Motor | Home | Health | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assets under reinsurance contracts held | 6,248 | 5,817 | 9,891 | - | 21,956 |
| Assets for remaining coverage | - | - | 6,466 | - | 6,466 |
| Assets for remaining coverage under PAA | - | - | 6,466 | - | 6,466 |
| Assets for remaining coverage | - | - | 4,554 | - | 4,554 |
| Recovery component | - | - | 1,912 | - | 1,912 |
| Assets for incurred claims | 6,248 | 5,817 | 3,425 | - | 15,490 |
| FCF present value estimates | 5,786 | 5,441 | 3,270 | - | 14,497 |
| Risk adjustment | 462 | 376 | 155 | - | 993 |
| Liabilities under insurance contracts | 530,023 | 72,419 | 7,564 | 276 | 610,282 |
| Liabilities for remaining coverage | 273,280 | 51,074 | 669 | 33 | 325,056 |
| Liabilities for remaining coverage under PAA | 273,280 | 51,074 | 669 | 33 | 325,056 |
| Liabilities for remaining coverage | 273,280 | 51,074 | (3,784) | 33 | 320,603 |
| Loss component | - | - | 4,453 | - | 4,453 |
| Liabilities for incurred claims | 256,743 | 21,345 | 6,895 | 243 | 285,226 |
| FCF present value estimates | 238,071 | 19,846 | 6,582 | 243 | 264,742 |
| Risk adjustment | 18,672 | 1,499 | 313 | - | 20,484 |
Movement in insurance assets and liabilities at 31 December 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOVEMENT IN INSURANCE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES | PCR (excluding onerous contracts) Excluding loss component |
PCR (onerous contracts) Loss component |
PSI - Contracts under the simplified approach |
||
| Estimated present value of future cash flows |
Risk adjustment |
Total | |||
| Opening balance of assets | - | - | - | - | - |
| Opening balance of liabilities | 320,603 | 4,453 | 264,742 | 20,484 | 610,282 |
| Opening net balance at 31.12.2022 | 320,603 | 4,453 | 264,742 | 20,484 | 610,282 |
| Insurance income | (960,266) | - | - | - | (960,266) |
| Insurance expenses (*) | 183,554 | (1,365) | 806,411 | 6,977 | 995,577 |
| Benefits and other expenses for incurred claims | - | - | 775,777 | - | 775,777 |
| Changes related to past services | - | - | 30,634 | 6,977 | 37,611 |
| Losses and reversal of losses on onerous contracts | - | (1,365) | - | - | (1,365) |
| Amortisation of acquisition expenses | 183,554 | - | - | - | 183,554 |
| Total income from insurance services | (776,712) | (1,365) | 806,411 | 6,977 | 35,311 |
| Net financial result recognised in the statement of profit or loss | - | - | 4,480 | 347 | 4,827 |
| Net financial result recognised in equity | - | - | 4,225 | 327 | 4,552 |
| Total changes in profit or loss and OCI | - | - | 8,705 | 674 | 9,379 |
| Premiums collected | 969,982 | - | - | - | 969,982 |
| Claims and other expenses paid (including investment components) |
- | - | (732,034) | - | (732,034) |
| Acquisition expenses paid | (177,610) | - | - | - | (177,610) |
| Total cash flows | 792,372 | - | (732,034) | - | 60,338 |
| Closing balance of assets | - | - | - | - | - |
| Closing balance of liabilities | 336,263 | 3,089 | 347,824 | 28,135 | 715,311 |
| Closing balance | 336,263 | 3,089 | 347,824 | 28,135 | 715,311 |
(*) Insurance expenses take into account expenses attributable to claims incurred.
| 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOVEMENT IN INSURANCE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES | PCR (excluding onerous contracts) Excluding loss component |
PCR (onerous contracts) Loss component |
PSI - Contracts under the simplified approach |
||
| Estimated present value of future cash flows |
Risk adjustment |
Total | |||
| Opening balance of assets | - | - | - | - | - |
| Opening balance of liabilities | 311,833 | 5,279 | 242,206 | 20,848 | 580,166 |
| Opening net balance at 31.12.2021 | 311,833 | 5,279 | 242,206 | 20,848 | 580,166 |
| Insurance income | (925,444) | - | - | - | (925,444) |
| Insurance expenses (*) | 179,823 | (825) | 699,746 | 166 | 878,910 |
| Benefits and other expenses for incurred claims | - | - | 703,612 | - | 703,612 |
| Changes related to past services | - | - | (3,866) | 166 | (3,700) |
| Losses and reversal of losses on onerous contracts | - | (825) | - | - | (825) |
| Amortisation of acquisition expenses | 179,823 | - | - | - | 179,823 |
| Total income from insurance services | (745,621) | (825) | 699,746 | 166 | (46,534) |
| Net financial result recognised in the statement of profit or loss | - | - | (402) | (35) | (437) |
| Net financial result recognised in equity | - | - | (5,746) | (495) | (6,241) |
| Total changes in profit or loss and OCI | - | - | (6,148) | (530) | (6,678) |
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| Closing balance | 320,603 | 4,453 | 264,742 | 20,484 | 797,558 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closing balance of liabilities | 320,603 | 4,453 | 264,742 | 20,484 | 797,558 |
| Closing balance of assets | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total cash flows | 754,391 | - | (671,062) | - | 83,329 |
| Acquisition expenses paid | (187,275) | - | - | - | (187,275) |
| Claims and other expenses paid (including investment components) |
- | - | (671,062) | - | (671,062) |
| Premiums collected | 941,666 | - | - | - | 941,666 |
(*) Insurance expenses take into account expenses attributable to claims incurred.
The movements in reinsurance assets and liabilities at the end of 31 December 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCR | PSI - Contracts under the simplified approach |
||||
| MOVEMENT IN CEDED REINSURANCE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES |
(excluding onerous contracts) |
PCR (onerous contracts) |
Estimated present value Risk of future cash adjustment flows |
Total | |
| Opening balance of assets | 4,553 | 1,913 | 14,497 | 993 | 21,956 |
| Opening balance of liabilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| Opening net balance | 4,553 | 1,913 | 14,497 | 993 | 21,956 |
| Income from ceded reinsurance contracts | 114 | (368) | 20,073 | 756 | 20,575 |
| Expenses from ceded reinsurance contracts | (23,489) | - | - | - | (23,489) |
| Total expenses from ceded reinsurance contracts | (23,375) | (368) | 20,073 | 756 | (2,914) |
| Net financial result recognised in the statement of profit or loss |
- | - | (169) | (12) | (181) |
| Net financial result recognised in equity | - | - | 204 | 14 | 218 |
| Total changes in profit or loss and OCI | - | - | 35 | 2 | 37 |
| Premiums ceded | 23,555 | - | - | - | 23,555 |
| Cash flows received | (112) | - | (10,583) | - | (10,695) |
| Total cash flows | 23,443 | - | (10,583) | - | 12,860 |
| Closing balance of assets | - | - | - | - | - |
| Closing balance of liabilities | 4,621 | 1,545 | 24,022 | 1,751 | 31,939 |
| Closing balance | 4,621 | 1,545 | 24,022 | 1,751 | 31,939 |
| 2022 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCR (excluding onerous |
PCR (onerous | PSI - Contracts under the simplified approach |
||||
| MOVEMENT IN CEDED REINSURANCE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES |
contracts) Excluding loss component |
contracts) Loss component |
Estimated present value of future cash flows |
Risk adjustment |
Total | |
| Opening balance of assets from ceded reinsurance contracts | 4,280 | 2,910 | 15,724 | 1,386 | 24,300 | |
| Opening balance of liabilities from ceded reinsurance contracts Opening net balance at 31.12.2021 |
- 4,280 |
- 2,910 |
- 15,724 |
- 1,386 |
- 24,300 |
|
| Income from ceded reinsurance contracts | 4,232 | (997) | 13,596 | (370) | 16,461 | |
| Expenses from ceded reinsurance contracts | (25,865) | - | - | - | (25,865) | |
| Total expenses from ceded reinsurance contracts | (21,633) | (997) | 13,596 | (370) | (9,404) | |
| Net financial result recognised in the statement of profit or loss |
- | - | 11 | 1 | 12 | |
| Net financial result recognised in equity | - | - | (273) | (24) | (297) | |
| Total changes in profit or loss and OCI | - | - | (262) | (23) | (285) | |
| Premiums ceded | 26,139 | - | - | - | 26,139 | |
| Cash flows received | (4,233) | - | (14,560) | - | (18,793) | |
| Total cash flows | 21,906 | - | (14,560) | - | 7,346 | |
| Closing balance of assets | ||||||
| Closing balance of liabilities | 4,553 | 1,913 | 14,498 | 993 | 21,957 | |
| Closing balance | 4,553 | 1,913 | 14,498 | 993 | 21,957 |
The following table provides a breakdown of insurance income and expenses at 31 December 2023 and 2022:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Insurance contract revenue measured under PAA | 960,266 | 925,444 |
| Premiums allocated to the period | 960,266 | 925,444 |
| Premiums written | 973,281 | 946,679 |
| Change in remaining hedging liability | (13,015) | (21,235) |
| Expenses for claims incurred and other expenses | 995,577 | 878,910 |
| Benefits paid and expenses incurred | 920,105 | 852,032 |
| Claims paid | 578,387 | 511,813 |
| Attributable expenses | 341,718 | 340,219 |
| Claims expenses | 127,364 | 127,397 |
| Other attributable expenses | 214,354 | 212,822 |
| Change in liabilities for incurred claims | 76,837 | 27,703 |
| Losses and reversals on onerous contracts and adjustments for losses | (1,365) | (825) |
| RESULT OF INSURANCE CONTRACTS (A) | (35,311) | 46,534 |
The following table provides a breakdown of financial income and expenses from insurance contracts as at 31 December 2023 and 2022, including movement in equity:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Financial income/ (expense) from insurance contracts issued | (9,378) | 6,678 |
| Credited interest | (4,827) | 437 |
| Effect of changes in OCI | (4,551) | 6,241 |
| Financial income/(expenses) from reinsurance contracts held | (37) | (309) |
| Credited interest | 181 | (12) |
| Effect of changes in OCI | (218) | (297) |
| Financial income/(expenses) from insurance and reinsurance contracts | (9,415) | 6,369 |
Information on the development of direct insurance claims incurred, including liabilities from claims incurred and excluding reinsured warranties and travel assistance, as well as recoveries certain and agreed (which are already recognised as liabilities from claims incurred in accordance with IFRS 17), from the year of occurrence of the claims until the end of 2023, is provided below:
| Year of occurrence |
Trend of claims in the years following year of occurrence Year of |
More than nine | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | occurrence | 1 year later | 2 years later | 3 years later | 4 years later | 5 years later | 6 years later | 7 years later | 8 years later | 9 years later years later | ||
| 2012 and prior |
Provision pending | 1,109,191 | 342,482 | 170,920 | 94,813 | 94,813 | 31,279 | 17,238 | 11,453 | 5,949 | 2,979 | 1,537 |
| Accumulated payments | 1,706,012 | 2,267,973 | 2,364,737 | 2,402,861 | 2,402,861 | 2,435,395 | 2,441,240 | 2,443,533 | 2,445,885 | 2,447,367 | 2,447,543 | |
| Total cost | 2,815,203 | 2,610,456 | 2,535,657 | 2,497,674 | 2,497,674 | 2,466,674 | 2,458,479 | 2,454,985 | 2,451,834 | 2,450,346 | 2,449,080 | |
| Provision pending | 181,728 | 52,988 | 24,945 | 14,456 | 14,456 | 4,322 | 3,405 | 1963.06449 | 987.69988 | 207.37068 | ||
| 2014 | Accumulated payments | 240,886 | 320,928 | 335,240 | 341,384 | 341,384 | 348,250 | 348,997 | 349,991 | 349,921 | 349,729 | |
| Total cost | 422,615 | 373,917 | 360,185 | 355,841 | 355,841 | 352,572 | 352,402 | 351,954 | 350,908 | 349,936 | ||
| Provision pending | 190,121 | 57,242 | 26,438 | 13,941 | 13,941 | 3,430 | 2,171 | 1,500 | 533.01534 | |||
| 2015 | Accumulated payments | 247,882 | 329,431 | 345,672 | 352,475 | 352,475 | 359,078 | 359,748 | 360,369 | 362,021 | ||
| Total cost | 438,003 | 386,673 | 372,111 | 366,416 | 366,416 | 362,508 | 361,919 | 361,869 | 362,554 | |||
| Provision pending | 213,455 | 80,001 | 43,518 | 16,746 | 16,746 | 5,860 | 3,505 | 2,369 | ||||
| 2016 | Accumulated payments | 254,659 | 337,478 | 359,317 | 373,382 | 373,382 | 383,274 | 385,452 | 388,238 | |||
| Total cost | 468,114 | 417,479 | 402,834 | 390,128 | 390,128 | 389,134 | 388,957 | 390,607 | ||||
| Provision pending | 220,134 | 75,241 | 33,156 | 17,451 | 17,451 | 5,135 | 3,584 | |||||
| 2017 | Accumulated payments | 274,878 | 375,942 | 401,271 | 412,754 | 412,754 | 420,803 | 422,244 | ||||
| Total cost | 495,012 | 451,183 | 434,427 | 430,205 | 430,205 | 425,938 | 425,828 | |||||
| Provision pending | 209,500 | 62,410 | 37,441 | 16,940 | 16,940 | 10,073 | ||||||
| 2018 | Accumulated payments | 302,136 | 413,245 | 440,681 | 452,983 | 452,983 | 460,805 | |||||
| Total cost | 511,636 | 475,654 | 478,122 | 469,923 | 469,923 | 470,878 | ||||||
| Provision pending | 223,591 | 87,557 | 40,244 | 20,679 | 20,679 | |||||||
| 2019 | Accumulated payments | 338,329 | 453,502 | 478,415 | 490,830 | 490,830 | ||||||
| Total cost | 561,920 | 541,058 | 518,659 | 511,509 | 511,509 | |||||||
| Provision pending | 179,604 | 61,587 | 30,598 | 20,553 | ||||||||
| 2020 | Accumulated payments | 279,694 | 365,270 | 384,005 | 392,739 | |||||||
| Total cost | 459,298 | 426,858 | 414,603 | 413,292 | ||||||||
| Provision pending | 229,635 | 74,071 | 37,703 | |||||||||
| 2021 | Accumulated payments | 339,130 | 452,744 | 479,731 | ||||||||
| Total cost | 568,766 | 526,815 | 517,434 | |||||||||
| Provision pending | 253,580 | 96,428 | ||||||||||
| 2022 | Accumulated payments | 371,682 | 508,376 | |||||||||
| Total cost | 625,262 | 604,804 | ||||||||||
| Provision pending | 301,994 | |||||||||||
| 2023 | Accumulated payments | 407,103 | ||||||||||
| Total cost | 709,097 |
In 2023 and 2022, there have been no events giving cause for a provision for tax and other legal contingencies. The movement in the provision for tax and other legal contingencies in 2023 and 2022 has been as follows:
Details of provisions other than technical provisions in 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Balance at the beginning of the year | 780 | 218 |
| Allocations | 375 | 780 |
| Amounts utilised | (780) | (218) |
| Balance at the end of the year | 375 | 780 |
Reductions in the balance of the provisions are due to payments recognised in them and in no case due to the reduction of estimates. In 2023 and 2022, no events have occurred that would give cause for an allocation of provisions for taxes or other legal contingencies.
Following the IPO of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A. Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros in April 2021, Bankinter, S.A. ceased to be the Parent for VAT purposes of the Insurance Group, comprising Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A. Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros, and several of its subsidiaries (Línea Directa Asistencia S.L.U., Centro Avanzado de Reparaciones, CAR, S.L.U., Ambar Medline, S.L.U. and LDA Reparaciones), leading to the departure of this Insurance Group from the VAT Group 128/09. Simultaneously and uninterruptedly, the Boards of Directors of these Companies agreed to re-qualify themselves with effective date 1 April 2021 for the Special Regime of Chapter IX of the Title of Law 37/1992 on Value Added Tax, thus forming the new VAT Group 0130/21, whose Parent Company is Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A. Insurance and Reinsurance Company.
On 22 April 2015, Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A. notified the tax authorities of its decision to file consolidated tax returns, as permitted under the Spanish Corporate Income Tax Law, thus forming and becoming the parent of a new consolidated tax group (Tax Consolidation Group No. 486/15) comprising the following companies:
| Tax ID |
|---|
| A80871031 |
| Tax ID |
| B86322880 |
| B80136922 |
| B84811553 |
| B85658573 |
| B83868083 |
| B87619961 |
Law 27/2014 of 27 November, on income tax, sets, inter alia, the tax rate payable by the Group in 2023 and 2022 at 25%.
The reconciliation between accounting profit and taxable income for income tax purposes for 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statement of profit or loss |
Income and expenses recognised directly in equity |
Statement of profit or loss |
Income and expenses recognised directly in equity |
|
| Accounting profit/(loss) for the year | (4,390) | - | 63,126 | - |
| Corporate income tax | (2,157) | - | 20,436 | - |
| Consolidation adjustments with no tax impact |
161 | - | 752 | - |
| IFRS adjustments | (7,274) | - | (4,804) | - |
| Permanent differences: | ||||
| Increases | - | - | 2,171 | - |
| Reductions | (1,180) | - | (2,021) | - |
| Taxable profit/(loss) | (12,430) | - | 79,660 | - |
| Temporary differences: | ||||
| Originating in the year | ||||
| Increases | 17,811 | - | 22,395 | 97,602 |
| Reductions | - | (28,891) | - | - |
| Originating in previous years | ||||
| Increases | 52,706 | - | 4 | - |
| Reductions | (6,185) | - | (1,753) | - |
| Consolidated loss adjustment | 197 | - | - | - |
| Tax base | 52,100 | (28,891) | 100,306 | 97,602 |
Details of current and deferred income tax expense recognised in the consolidated statement of profit or loss for 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Current tax expense | 13,295 | 24,299 |
| Adjustments to deferred taxes | (15,452) | (3,864) |
| Corporate income tax expense | (2,157) | 20,436 |
The corporate income tax expense is the result of applying a tax rate of 25% for 2023 and 2022 to the accounting profit before tax, adjusted for permanent differences and reduced by deductions for the year, as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting profit/(loss) before tax | (6,547) | 83,562 |
| Tax rate | 25.00% | 25.00% |
| Notional corporate income tax expense | (1,637) | 20,890 |
| Deductions on tax payable | (283) | (819) |
| Impact of consolidation adjustments | (32) | 200 |
| Corporate tax settlement adjustment for previous year | (513) | (1) |
| Non-deductible expenses | 603 | 543 |
| Non-taxable income | (295) | (505) |
| Deductions and amounts utilised, net | - | 128 |
| Tax losses carried forward | - | - |
| Corporate income tax expense | (2,157) | 20,436 |
Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros and subsidiaries
2023 Consolidated Financial Statements (expressed in thousand euro)
The increases in permanent differences in 2023 and 2022 are due to various transactions that are not deductible for corporate income tax purposes, specifically the contributions made by the Parent, linked to contingencies similar to pension plans, which are not tax deductible under article
14.2 of the Spanish Corporate Income Tax Law (LIS) and the donations made by the Parent to Línea Directa Foundation or other entities.
The reductions in permanent differences in 2023 and 2022 are the product of gains arising from redemptions of equity investments in companies and private equity funds of the Parent.
The increases in temporary differences are mainly due to adjustments to provisions, which, according to Articles 13 and 14 of the Spanish Corporate Income Tax Law (LIS), are not deductible for tax purposes, as well as the application of part of the equalisation reserve made this year. Reductions arising in prior years relate mainly to the reversal of positive adjustments to non-tax deductible provisions.
Temporary changes originating in the year include the depreciation or revaluation of investments classified as available for sale.
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tax assets | ||
| Current tax | ||
| Withholdings for the year / Corporate income tax credit | 805 | 3,397 |
| Deferred tax | ||
| For temporary differences | ||
| Other appropriations | 13,830 | 23,464 |
| Tax and social security receivable | ||
| 1,041 | 1,265 | |
| Tax liabilities | ||
| Current tax | ||
| Corporate income tax liability | ||
| Deferred tax liabilities | 11,384 | - |
| For temporary differences | ||
| Other liabilities | 19,663 | 31,459 |
| Tax Authorities, withholdings IRPF/IS/IRNR | ||
| Tax Authorities, VAT creditor | 2,360 | 3,123 |
| Social Security payable | 538 | 223 |
| Insurance Compensation | 3,083 | 2,981 |
| Consortium to be paid | 1,617 | 1,596 |
| Tax on insurance premiums to be paid | 6,492 | 6,288 |
| Other taxes payable | 1,130 | 1,308 |
Tax assets and liabilities were as follows at the end of 2023 and 2022:
Current tax assets correspond to the amount of corporate income tax to be refunded for the year 2022 and the corporate income tax withholdings for the year to be settled in the following year.
The tax assets due to temporary differences relate to temporary differences arising in the year, as indicated in the reconciliation of accounting profit and the tax effect on capital losses of the "available-for-sale" investment portfolio.
Temporary differences existing at 31 December 2023 will be reversed from 2024 onwards, and deferred income tax is therefore calculated by applying a tax rate of 25% to the deductible temporary differences arising at the end of the year (increases) and the reversal of deductible temporary differences from the prior year (reductions).
Current tax liabilities show the amount of corporate income tax payable for the year, net of payments on account.
At 31 December 2023 and 2022, deferred tax liabilities relate to the tax effect on:
Under PCEA, the Group recognises an equalisation reserve that is reclassified for presentation purposes in accordance with IFRS requirements. The Group bases its taxation on the PCEA. Therefore, from the balance arising from the equalisation reserve recognised under the PCEA, a deferred tax liability of € 10,961 thousand arose at year-end 2023 (2022: € 24,137 thousand), which will be settled with the tax authorities in the year in which it is applied in accordance with the PCEA. The reduction in the amount is due to the application of part of the equalisation reserve in 2023.
The tax impact of capital gains on the investment portfolio through changes in other equity amounted to € 4,831 thousand at year-end 2023 (2022: € 4,045 thousand).
Changes in deferred tax assets and liabilities in 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| Balance at 31.12.2021 |
Originating in profit and loss |
Originating in equity | Balance at | Originating in profit and loss |
Originating in equity | Balance at | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Additions | Withdrawals | Additions | Withdrawals | 31.12.2022 | Additions Withdrawals | Additions | Withdrawals | 31.12.2023 | |||
| Deferred assets | |||||||||||
| Positive temporary differences in assets | 1,575 | 355 | (543) | - | - | 1,387 | 5,599 | (1,546) | - - |
5,440 | |
| Capital losses on the available-for-sale portfolio assets |
612 | - | - | 13,380 | - | 13,992 | - | - | 101 | (6,547) | 7,546 |
| Taxes deferred | 6,161 | - | - | - | - | 6,161 | - | - | - (6,049) |
112 | |
| Rights to deductions and rebates | 94 | - | - | 74 | - | 168 | - | - | 64 | - | 232 |
| Deductions to be applied | - | - | - | 1,749 | - | 1,749 | - | - | - (1,749) |
- | |
| Tax deductions and bonuses to be credited | 100 | - | - | 133 | (233) | - | - | - | 191 | (191) | - |
| 50% limit on utilisation of prior year tax losses | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 49 | - | 49 |
| Temporary differences due to IFRS conversion adjustments |
9 | - | (2) | - | - | 7 | 444 | - | - - |
451 | |
| Total | 8,551 | 355 | (545) | 15,336 | (233) | 23,464 | 6,043 | (1,546) | 405 | (14,536) | 13,830 |
| Deferred liabilities | |||||||||||
| Tax effect of the Equalisation Reserve | (29,389) | - | - | 5,252 | - | (24,137) | - | - | - 13,177 |
(10,961) | |
| Capital gains on the available-for-sale portfolio assets |
(15,066) | - | - | 11,021 | - | (4,045) | - | - | (912) | 127 | (4,830) |
| Liabilities from temporary difference deductions for maintaining employment |
(1) | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - - |
- | |
| Temporary differences due to IFRS conversion adjustments |
- | - | - | - | - | (3,277) | (596) | - | - - |
(3,873) | |
| Total | (44,456) | - | 1 | 16,273 | - | (31,459) | (596) | - | (912) | 13,304 | (19,663) |
100 Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros and subsidiaries
2023 Consolidated Financial Statements (expressed in thousand euro)
In relation to the tax agency's latest inspection of the Parent Company (income tax for years 2011, 2012 and 2013), the assessments signed in protest were appealed before the Central Tax Appeals Board (TEAC) in 2019, which delivered its decision on 13 December 2022, partially upholding the Parent Company's claim. The Parent lodged a contentiousadministrative appeal before the Audiencia Nacional on 1 February 2023 to continue appealing the part rejected by the TEAC. On 15 June 2023, the Parent was notified of the opening of the period in which present the claim, which was ultimately filed on 12 July 2023.
In addition to the above, the Group has analysed each uncertain tax treatment separately by virtue of IFRIC 23. The analysis revealed that it is probable that the Spanish tax authorities will accept the current tax treatments considered uncertain. Therefore, no additional contingency was disclosed at 31 December 2023 and 2022 relating to the calculation and presentation of the Group's income tax expense.
Meanwhile, in compliance with Inspection Order 51/2016, of 14 November 2016, an inspection was opened on the surcharges due on 2016 to the Insurance Compensation Consortium. On 22 December 2017, the Parent Company was notified of the inspection report and submitted the corresponding allegations within the deadline. On 21 June 2018, a resolution was received from the Directorate General of Insurance and Pension Funds (DGSFP). On 27 May 2019, an appeal was lodged with the High Court of Justice in Madrid. The Court's ruling was received on 23 April 2021, partially upholding the arguments made by the Parent Company, which involved performing a specific test on particular files.
On 9 June 2021, the Parent filed an appeal in cassation before the Supreme Court for the part of the ruling that was not upheld. This appeal was accepted for consideration. On 23 September 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Directorate's opinion. In January 2023, the DGSFP contacted the Parent to perform the test, which took place in February and March. The Parent received the report on the results of the test on 22 June 2023. The report dismissed the test. On
11 July 2023, the Parent Company submitted allegations to the report. Then, on 14 November 2023, the Parent Company received a resolution rejecting the aforementioned allegations.
The Board of Directors does not believe that these proceedings will ultimately result in any significant contingency, control measure or any other risks that might have a significant impact on the Group's consolidated annual accounts.
The composition and movement in equity in 2023 and 2022 is presented in the accompanying consolidated statements of changes in equity.
On 29 April 2021, the Parent's shares were admitted to trading on the continuous market.
At 31 December 2023 the share capital of the Parent Company amounts to
€ 43,537 thousand and is represented by 1,088,416,840 registered shares, each with a par value of € 0.04, fully subscribed and paid up, all having the same rights and obligations.
The shareholders of the Parent with a stake equal to or greater than 3% of the share capital as at 31 December 2023 and considered significant shareholders according to the regulations of the Securities Market are the following:
| 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number of shares |
% | |
| Cartival | 216,553,770 | 19.90% |
| Bankinter | 189,555,907 | 17.42% |
| Fernando Masaveu Herrero | 58,570,346 | 5.38% |
| Norbel Inversiones, S.L. | 54,430,000 | 5.00% |
| Lazard Asset Management | 34,778,950 | 3.20% |
| Brandes Investment Partners LP | 32,674,276 | 3.00% |
| 2022 | ||
| Number of shares |
% | |
| Cartival | 212,277,276 | 19.50% |
| Bankinter | 189,555,907 | 17.42% |
| Fernando Masaveu Herrero | 57,919,846 | 5.32% |
| Lazard Asset Management | 34,778,950 | 3.20% |
At 31 December 2023 and 2022 the Parent had posted the minimum capital required under the Law on the Organisation and Supervision of Private Insurance to operate in authorised insurance segments.
In accordance with prevailing commercial legislation, companies that obtain profits during the financial year must allocate 10% of these profits to the legal reserve until this reaches at least 20% of share capital. The legal reserve may be used to increase share capital but only in respect of the part of the reserve that exceeds 10% of share capital already increased. Aside from this purpose, and until the legal reserve exceeds 20% of share capital, it may only be used to offset losses and provided that no other reserves are available for this purpose.
At 31 December 2023 and 2022 the balance of this reserve was above the minimum requirement.
At 31 December 2022 and 2023, these reserves were unrestricted.
The equalisation reserve set up by the Parent in the amount of € 43,839 at year-end 2023 and € 93,608 thousand at year-end 2022 will be freely available for the sole purpose of offsetting possible future excess on the claims ratio.
The balance of this sub-heading of equity in the consolidated balance sheet is shown net of equity in accordance with IAS 32 – Financial Instruments: Presentation.
Since 29 April 2021, the date of the IPO, on which the Parent was awarded 239,678 own shares in the exchange of Bankinter shares, it has made successive acquisitions of shares, all duly communicated to the CNMV, to complete the remuneration plan. Thus, the number of own shares acquired by the Parent in 2021 was 795,643 shares, at an average price of € 1.57, accounting for 0.11% of the total number of issued shares.
In November 2022, the Group offered its employees a flexible share-based remuneration plan. Within the framework of this agreement, 224,000 shares were acquired by employees at an average price of € 0.99, of which 204,676 were delivered in 2022 and 116,771 in 2023.
Changes in treasury shares are as follows:
| (thousand euro) | Acquisition cost | Nominal value |
Number of shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balance at 1 January 2022 | 1,247 | 32 | 795,643 |
| Additions | 221 | 9 | 224,000 |
| Disposals | (450) | (18) | (362,732) |
| Balance at 31 December 2022 | 1,018 | 23 | 656,911 |
| Balance at 1 January 2023 | 1,018 | 23 | 656,911 |
| Additions | - | - | - |
| Disposals | (374) | (10) | (279,328) |
| Balance at 31 December 2023 | 644 | 13 | 377,583 |
The breakdown of own shares at year-end 2022 and 2023 is as follows:
| Acquisition date |
Type of acquisition | Quantity | Price | Market value (thousand euro) |
Acquisition cost (thousand euro) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29.04.2021 | Exchange | 239,678 | 1.32 | 316 | 316 |
| 04.05.2021 | Purchase | 186,570 | 1.61 | 300 | 300 |
| 06.05.2021 | Purchase | 94,700 | 1.58 | 150 | 150 |
| 21.07.2021 | Purchase | 64,332 | 1.77 | 114 | 114 |
| 22.07.2021 | Purchase | 85,957 | 1.73 | 149 | 149 |
| 23.07.2021 | Purchase | 59,702 | 1.74 | 104 | 104 |
| 26.07.2021 | Purchase | 27,293 | 1.76 | 48 | 48 |
| 27.07.2021 | Purchase | 23,183 | 1.75 | 41 | 41 |
| 28.07.2021 | Purchase | 14,228 | 1.75 | 25 | 25 |
| 01.05.2022 | Delivery | (157,592) | 1.57 | (247) | (247) |
| 11.05.2022 | Sale | (463) | 1.26 | (1) | (1) |
| 26.05.2022 | Sale | (1) | 1.32 | - | - |
| 15.11.2022 | Purchase | 214,000 | 0.99 | 212 | 212 |
| 16.11.2022 | Purchase | 10,000 | 0.94 | 9 | 9 |
| 22.11.2022 | Delivered to employees | (104,529) | 0.99 | (102) | (102) |
| 22.12.2022 | Delivered to employees | (100,147) | 0.99 | (98) | (98) |
| 14.04.2023 | Delivered to CEO | (14,455) | 0.99 | (14) | (14) |
| 04.05.2023 | Delivered to directors, 2nd payment |
(148,102) | 0.99 | (146) | (178) |
| 22.11.2023 | Delivered to employees | (44,444) | 0.82 | (36) | (70) |
| 22.12.2023 | Delivered to employees | (72,327) | 0.80 | (57) | (113) |
| Total | 377,583 | 1.33 | 766 | 644 |
On 30 March 2023, the Annual General Meeting agreed to a final dividend charged to 2022 profits amounting to € 1,090 thousand. At 31 December 2023, there were no outstanding payments.
The legally required interim accounting statement drawn up by the Group in relation to the last available accounting close at the date of the dividend proposal shows sufficient liquidity for the distribution of those interim dividends, as follows:
Liquidity statement for the period:
| Resolution of |
|---|
| 30.03.2023 |
| 59,523 |
| - |
| (52,481) |
| 7,042 |
| 1,090 |
| 1,090 |
| 28,741 |
| 75,378 |
| 104,119 |
On its meetings of 21 April 2022, 24 February 2022, and 13 December 2022, the Board of Directors agreed to distribute interim dividends for a total amount of € 52,481 thousand, agreement which was ratified by the Annual General Meeting on 30 March 2023. As at 31 December 2022, no amount was outstanding.
The legally required interim accounting statement drawn up by the Group in relation to the last available accounting close at the date of the dividend proposal shows sufficient liquidity for the distribution of those interim dividends, as follows:
Liquidity statement for the period:
| Resolution of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13.12.2022 | 20.09.2022 | 21.04.2022 | ||
| Net profit at date of resolution | 58,312 | 48,976 | 24,189 | |
| Less: | ||||
| Other reserves | - | - | - | |
| Dividends paid | (44,079) | (21,770) | - | |
| Unrestricted profit | 14,233 | 27,206 | 24,189 | |
| Proposal to pay interim dividends | 8,402 | 22,309 | 21,770 | |
| Total dividend to be paid | 8,402 | 22,309 | 21,770 | |
| Cash liquidity prior to payment | 20,782 | 178,141 | 108,217 | |
| Expected receipts less expected payments | 577 | (28,743) | 18,514 | |
| Remaining cash | 21,359 | 149,398 | 126,731 |
Prior to the interim dividend agreement, the Group requested authorisation from the Directorate General of Insurance and Pension Funds (Dirección General de Seguros y Fondos de Pensiones) and received a positive response from the regulator.
The proposed distribution of profit of the Parent for financial year 2023, which the Board of Directors submitted to the Annual General Meeting for its approval, is presented comparatively together with the distribution of profit for financial year 2022, as follows:
| Thousand euro | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | ||
| Distribution basis (Individual profit/(loss) of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A. de Seguros y Reaseguros) |
(12,560) | 70,681 | |
| Distributed: | |||
| to interim dividends | 52,481 | ||
| to Equalisation Reserve | 7,430 | 7,121 | |
| to Voluntary Reserve | (19,990) | 9,989 | |
| to final dividend | 1,090 |
The main item recognised off the consolidated statement of profit or loss is the valuation adjustments for assets held in the financial asset portfolio at fair value through equity,
corresponding to the amount of capital gains and losses net of the tax effect. The amount of capital losses net of tax effect as at 31 December 2023 is -€ 18,226 thousand, (-€ 29,856 thousand at 31 December 2022).
Estimated cash flows have to be discounted in accordance with the entry into force of IFRS 17 and the calculation of the provision for incurred claims using a Best Estimate methodology. In discounting cash flows, the Group has decided to use the risk-free curve, recognising in equity the changes in cash flows caused by the movement of the risk-free curve as permitted by the regulations. The result was a positive impact of € 1,174 thousand at the end of 2023 (€ 5,943 thousand euros at the end of 2022).
At the date of authorisation for issue of these consolidated financial statements, the Group's directors can confirm that an internal assessment of risks and solvency has been carried out and that Línea Directa Aseguradora is compliant with overall solvency requirements based on its risk profile, approved risk tolerance limits and business strategy.
The Group has implemented processes that are commensurate with the nature, scale and complexity of the risks inherent in its business and that enable it to properly identify and assess all existing or potential risks to which it may be exposed in the short and long run.
The directors do not expect to encounter any significant obstacles that might impede the Group's compliance with regulatory solvency and minimum capital requirements and that might affect the application of the going concern principle and the continuity of the Group's operations. The report on the financial position and solvency of Línea Directa Aseguradora for 2023 will be approved by the Board of Directors at its meeting of 19 March 2024.
Basic earnings per share are calculated by dividing the profit for the year attributable to owners of the Parent by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the year:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit/(loss) for the year attributable to the owners of the Parent | (4,390) | 63,126 |
| Weighted average of shares issued (thousands of shares) | 1,088,417 | 1,088,417 |
| Weighted own shares (in thousand shares) (*) | (648) | (705) |
| Weighted average number of common shares outstanding (in thousand shares) | 1,087,769 | 1,087,712 |
| Basic earnings per share (in euro) | 0.00 | 0.06 |
(*) Refers to own shares held in treasury and weighted according to the period in which they were issued [Note 14c)].
At 31 December 2023, there were 378 thousand treasury shares (31 December 2022: 657 thousand), making the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding lower than the weighted average number of shares issued at that date.
Diluted earnings per share are calculated by adjusting the profit for the year attributable to owners of the Parent and the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding for all dilutive potential ordinary shares: The dilutive effect on earnings per share at 31 December 2023 and 2022 was not material.
The breakdown of income and expenses by segment as well as the technical insurance result at the end of 2023 and 2022 under both IFRS 4 and IFRS 17 is presented below:
| IFRS 17 | 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motor | Home | Health | Other insurance businesses |
Consolidated | |
| Income from ordinary insurance business | 782,686 | 146,847 | 29,949 | 784 | 960,266 |
| Premiums written | 792,684 | 149,430 | 30,384 | 783 | 973,281 |
| Change in remaining hedging liabilities | (9,804) | (2,564) | (428) | 1 | (12,795) |
| Change due to impairment of outstanding premiums receivable | (194) | (19) | (7) | - | (220) |
| Expenses of ordinary insurance business | (818,680) | (139,671) | (36,691) | (535) | (995,577) |
| Reinsurance recoverables | 1,087 | (1,174) | (2,816) | (11) | (2,914) |
| Insurance technical result | (34,907) | 6,002 | (9,558) | 238 | (38,225) |
| Finance income | 42,504 | 4,980 | 2,737 | 28 | 50,249 |
| Finance expenses | (15,965) | (259) | (31) | (2) | (16,257) |
| Insurance and reinsurance financial income/expenses | (4,098) | (461) | (87) | - | (4,646) |
| Financial result | 22,441 | 4,260 | 2,619 | 26 | 29,346 |
| Net income from insurance and investments | (12,466) | 10,262 | (6,939) | 264 | (8,879) |
| IFRS 4 | 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motor | Home | Health | Other insurance businesses |
Consolidated | |
| Total premiums earned, net of reinsurance | 777,780 | 141,955 | 16,105 | 774 | 936,614 |
| Total claims incurred in the period, net of reinsurance | (689,085) | (97,315) | (14,456) | (83) | (800,939) |
| Profit sharing | - | - | - | (393) | (393) |
| Total net operating expenses | (153,854) | (41,863) | (12,635) | (59) | (208,411) |
| Other income and expense for the non-life insurance business | 22,096 | 1 | (4) | - | 22,093 |
| Technical profit/(loss) | (43,063) | 2,778 | (10,990) | 239 | (51,036) |
| Total investment income | 46,505 | 4,907 | 2,728 | 27 | 54,167 |
| Total investment expenses | (19,990) | (258) | (30) | (1) | (20,279) |
| Income from the non-life insurance business account | (16,548) | 7,427 | (8,292) | 265 | (17,148) |
The difference between the two technical accounts is of € 8,269 thousand. This is mainly due to:
-
| Total difference | 7,257 |
|---|---|
| Impact of IFRS 9 before tax | (1,483) |
| Change in valuation of equity investment funds | 1,794 |
| Change in expected loss on fixed income securities | (39) |
| Realised capital gains on equities | (3,238) |
| Impact of IFRS 17 before tax | 8,740 |
| Credit of interest | (4,646) |
| Provision for remaining coverage | 1,132 |
| Provision for claims incurred ceded | 509 |
| Gross provision for claims incurred | 11,745 |
| 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFRS 17 | Motor | Home | Health | Other insurance businesses |
Consolidated |
| Income from ordinary insurance business | 757,858 | 138,034 | 28,452 | 1,100 | 925,444 |
| Premiums written | 772,787 | 143,713 | 29,082 | 1,097 | 946,679 |
| Change in remaining hedging liabilities | (14,896) | (5,673) | (643) | 3 | (21,209) |
| Change due to impairment for outstanding premiums receivable |
(33) | (6) | 13 | - | (26) |
| Expenses of ordinary insurance business | (717,129) | (122,709) | (38,359) | (713) | (878,910) |
| Reinsurance recoverables | (3,067) | (7,751) | 1,449 | (35) | (9,404) |
| Insurance technical result | 37,662 | 7,574 | (8,458) | 352 | 37,130 |
| Finance income | 60,190 | 5,795 | 2,877 | 44 | 68,906 |
| Finance expenses | (26,855) | (180) | (22) | (2) | (27,059) |
| Insurance and reinsurance financial income/expenses | 379 | 38 | 8 | - | 425 |
| Financial result of insurance services | 33,714 | 5,653 | 2,863 | 42 | 42,272 |
| Net income from insurance services | 71,376 | 13,227 | (5,595) | 394 | 79,402 |
| IFRS 4 | 2022 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motor | Home | Health | Other insurance businesses |
Consolidated | |||
| Total premiums earned, net of reinsurance | 753,277 | 129,799 | 16,505 | 1,065 | 900,646 | ||
| Total claims incurred in the period, net of reinsurance | (585,327) | (81,840) | (14,321) | (10) | (681,498) | ||
| Profit sharing | - | - | - | (637) | (637) | ||
| Total net operating expenses | (150,801) | (41,989) | (9,327) | (66) | (202,183) | ||
| Other income and expenses from the non-life insurance business | 17,507 | (241) | (243) | - | 17,023 | ||
| Technical profit/(loss) | 34,656 | 5,729 | (7,386) | 352 | 33,351 | ||
| Total investment income | 63,774 | 5,717 | 2,872 | 44 | 72,407 | ||
| Total investment expenses | (32,433) | (176) | (22) | (1) | (32,632) | ||
| Income from the non-life insurance business account | 65,997 | 11,270 | (4,536) | 395 | 73,126 |
The difference between the two technical accounts is € 6,276 thousand. This is mainly due to:
| Gross provision for claims incurred | 5,602 |
|---|---|
| Provision for claims incurred ceded | (48) |
| Provision for remaining coverage | (1,176) |
| Credit of interest | 425 |
| Impact of IFRS 17 before tax | 4,803 |
The following table provides a breakdown of investment income and expenses of the consolidated non-life insurance business by segment for the six-month periods ended 31 December 2023 and 2022 under IFRS 4 and IFRS 17.
| 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFRS 17 | Motor | Home | Health Other insurance businesses |
Consolidated | |
| Income from financial investments | 21,167 | 4,077 | 2,633 | 23 | 27,900 |
| Application of value adjustments for investments | 13,631 | - | - | - | 13,631 |
| Income from realisation of investments | 2,743 | - | - | - | 2,743 |
| Income from property, plant and equipment and investment property |
4,915 | 903 | 104 | 5 | 5,927 |
| Positive exchange rate and conversion differences | 48 | - | - | - | 48 |
| Total financial income from investments | 42,504 | 4,980 | 2,737 | 28 | 50,249 |
| Value adjustments for investments | (11,755) | (32) | (4) | - | (11,791) |
| Losses on investments | (2,579) | - | - | - | (2,579) |
| Losses in property, plant and equipment and investment property |
(1,271) | (227) | (27) | (2) | (1,527) |
| Negative exchange rate and conversion differences | (360) | - | - | - | (360) |
| Total financial expenses from investments | (15,965) | (259) | (31) | (2) | (16,257) |
| NET INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS | 26,539 | 4,721 | 2,706 | 26 | 33,992 |
| IFRS 4 | 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motor | Home | Health Other insurance businesses |
Consolidated | ||
| Income from investments in property, plant and equipment | 3,830 | 705 | 80 | 4 | 4,619 |
| Income from financial investments | 24,417 | 3,994 2,624 | 22 | 31,057 | |
| Gains/(losses) on realisation of investments | 18,258 | 208 | 24 | 1 | 18,491 |
| On investments in property, plant and equipment | - | - | - | - | - |
| Financial investments | 18,258 | 208 | 24 | 1 | 18,491 |
| Total investment income | 46,505 | 4,907 | 2,728 | 27 | 54,167 |
| Investment management expenses | 5,829 | 226 | 26 | 1 | 6,082 |
| Expenses from managing investments in property, plant and equipment |
2,856 | 226 | 26 | 1 | 3,109 |
| Expenses from managing financial investments | 2,973 | - | - | - | 2,973 |
| Investment valuation adjustments | 28 | - | - | - | 28 |
| Amortisation of investments in property, plant and equipment | 28 | - | - | - | 28 |
| Losses on investments | 14,133 | 32 | 4 | - | 14,169 |
| Losses on investments in property, plant and equipment | - | - | - | - | - |
| Losses on financial investments | 14,133 | 32 | 4 | - | 14,169 |
| Total investment expenses | 19,990 | 258 | 30 | 1 | 20,279 |
| NET INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS | 26,515 | 4,649 | 2,698 | 26 | 33,888 |
The differences between the two income figures for investments in 2023 relate to the entry into force of both IFRS 9 and IFRS 17:
| Impact of IFRS 17 before tax | 1,585 |
|---|---|
| Reclassification of expenses to other expenses and operating expenses | 1,585 |
| Impact of IFRS 9 before tax | (1,483) |
| Change in valuation of equity investment funds recognised in the statement of profit or loss |
|
| Change in expected loss on fixed income securities | (39) |
| Realised capital gains on equities recognised in equity | (3,238) |
| IFRS 17 | 2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motor | Home | Health Other insurance businesses |
Consolidated | ||
| Income from financial investments | 19,758 | 5,168 | 2,802 | 39 | 27,767 |
| Application of value adjustments for investments | 20,843 | - | - | - | 20,843 |
| Gains/(losses) on realisation of investments | 12,647 | - | - | - | 12,647 |
| Income from property, plant and equipment and investment property |
3,673 | 627 | 75 | 5 | 4,380 |
| Exchange differences | 3,269 | - | - | - | 3,269 |
| Total investment income | 60,190 | 5,795 | 2,877 | 44 | 68,906 |
| Value adjustments for investments | (20,839) | (4) | - | - | (20,843) |
| Losses on investments | (5,464) | - | - | - | (5,464) |
| Losses in property, plant and equipment and investment property |
(1,050) | (176) | (22) | (2) | (1,250) |
| Negative exchange rate and conversion differences | 498 | - | - | - | 498 |
| Total investment expenses | (26,855) | (180) | (22) | (2) | (27,059) |
| NET INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS | 33,335 | 5,615 | 2,855 | 42 | 41,847 |
| 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFRS 4 | Motor | Home | Health Other insurance businesses |
Consolidated | |
| Income from investments in property, plant and equipment | 3,678 | 628 | 80 | 5 | 4,391 |
| Income from financial investments | 26,606 | 5,089 | 2,792 | 39 | 34,526 |
| Gains/(losses) on realisation of investments | 33,490 | - | - | - | 33,490 |
| On investments in property, plant and equipment | - | - | - | - | - |
| Financial investments | 33,490 | - | - | - | 33,490 |
| Total investment income | 63,774 | 5,717 | 2,872 | 44 | 72,407 |
| Investment management expenses | 6,098 | 176 | 22 | 1 | 6,297 |
| Expenses from managing investments in property, plant and equipment |
3,043 | 176 | 22 | 1 | 3,242 |
| Expenses from managing financial investments | 3,055 | - | - | - | 3,055 |
| Investment valuation adjustments | 28 | - | - | - | 28 |
| Amortisation of investments in property, plant and equipment | 28 | - | - | - | 28 |
| Losses on investments | 26,307 | - | - | - | 26,307 |
| Losses on investments in property, plant and equipment | - | - | - | - | - |
| Losses on financial investments | 26,307 | - | - | - | 26,307 |
| Total investment expenses | 32,433 | 176 | 22 | 1 | 32,632 |
| NET INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS | 31,341 | 5,541 | 2,850 | 43 | 39,775 |
As stated in note 2, IFRS 9 was not applied until 1 January 2023, so all the differences in 2022 related to the entry into force of IFRS 17:
Below is a breakdown of net operating expenses by type and purpose for 2023 and 2022:
Operating expenses by purpose:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating expenses by purpose | ||
| Claims-related expenses | (127,364) | (127,397) |
| Acquisition costs | (183,554) | (179,823) |
| Administration expenses | (30,800) | (32,999) |
| Other expenses | (3,809) | (3,397) |
| Total operating expenses by purpose | (345,527) | (343,616) |
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating expenses by type | ||
| Fees and other portfolio expenses | (35,784) | (39,070) |
| Staff expenses [Note 23b)] | (123,496) | (126,039) |
| External services | (153,662) | (158,494) |
| Leases | (544) | (764) |
| Repair and maintenance work (premises and properties) | (2,688) | (2,281) |
| Other IT services | (26,813) | (27,399) |
| Utilities and supplies | (3,415) | (5,072) |
| Advertising and publicity | (43,582) | (49,692) |
| Public relations | (527) | (662) |
| Independent professional services | (1,297) | (1,677) |
| Other services | (74,796) | (70,948) |
| Taxes | (622) | (610) |
| Depreciation and amortisation (Notes 8, 9a) and 10) | (8,268) | (8,834) |
| Expenses recognised directly to purpose | (23,695) | (10,569) |
| Total operating expenses by type | (345,527) | (343,616) |
Each expenditure heading in the above table corresponds to the corresponding expenditure type as per its description. "Other services" shows expenses incurred by subsidiaries for services associated with claims incurred in the policy portfolio of the Group's parent, such as services rendered by crane drivers and vehicle inspectors, which are allocated to "Claimsrelated expenses" on the statement of profit or loss of the Group's non-life insurance business.
The statement of profit or loss shows expenses by purpose, i.e. on the basis of their function in the operating cycle of the insurance business (expenses attributable to claims, acquisition of insurance contracts, or to administrative expenses).
Expenses are initially recognised by type, and are then reclassified to purpose if their purpose does not coincide with their type. The reclassification made under the following headings is shown below:
1) Claims-related expenses. These include expenses for personnel engaged in claims management, amortisation of fixed assets assigned to this activity, fees paid for claims management and expenses incurred for other services necessary in claims handling.
Details of other income in the statement of profit or loss for other activities is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Other income from other activities | ||
| Intermediation income from credit cards and other insurers' policies | 536 | 547 |
| Commission payment for Insurance Compensation Consortium | 639 | 629 |
| Income from bank branch management | 1,032 | 1,069 |
| Income from management expenses passed on | 622 | 44 |
| Income from profit sharing in businesses delivered to Bankinter | 329 | 450 |
| Reclassified non-technical income | 2,983 | 4,797 |
| Total Other income from other activities | 6,141 | 7,536 |
The sub-heading "Non-technical income reclassified" shows income from Subsidiaries that is not eliminated upon consolidation, as well as other ancillary insurance income.
Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement for the industry, the Group is required to take out a collective life insurance policy for all of its employees. This policy has been externalised in the form of a life risk insurance policy renewable annually. This policy generated staff expenses for premiums paid of € 535 thousand in 2023 and € 539 thousand in 2022.
The collective bargaining agreement also imposes a savings and pension insurance obligation. For employees hired on or after 1 January 2017 and those who have voluntarily opted to transfer to this new system (approximately 95% of the total workforce), the Group has externalised the obligations by arranging a new insurance contract as an alternative to the existing defined benefit policy. This new contract is for a defined contribution policy covering more contingencies than the old system. The initial effective date of the commitments under the new policy is 1 January 2018 for all staff members concerned.
To ensure the effective transfer of the mathematical reserve set up for this group under the old plan, this reserve was surrendered and a premium covering the value of this reserve was then contributed to the new defined contribution policy. This policy resulted in staff expenses for premiums paid of € 705 thousand in 2023 (2022: € 739 thousand) and a mathematical provision of € 6,275 thousand at 31 December 2023 (31 December 2022: € 5,602 thousand).
No policy surrenders took place in 2023 or 2022. All the premiums for 2023 were paid in December 2023. All the premiums for 2022 were paid in December 2022.
The Group also has a collective insurance policy in effect to formalise its retirement pension commitments with certain members of Senior Management. These defined contribution policies are also externalised and regular contributions are made for the different members of the group. In 2023, this policy accrued premiums of € 542 thousand and a mathematical provision of € 11,014 thousand at year-end. In 2022, this policy accrued premiums of € 626 thousand and its mathematical provision at year-end amounted to € 9,554 thousand. A surrender totalling € 1,102 thousand also took place during the period. The contributions made to this policy are entirely voluntary for the Group and are made at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
The Group also has a defined contribution savings and retirement insurance policy in effect for members of Senior Management. This policy accrued premiums of € 78 thousand in 2023 and its mathematical provision at year-end came to € 791 thousand. In 2022, the policy accrued premiums of € 66 thousand and its mathematical provision at year-end was € 704 thousand.
For those employees hired prior to 1 January 2017 and who have decided not to migrate to the new system under the collective agreement, there is an obligation to pay a retirement bonus that will only be collected if the employee retires at the corresponding ordinary age at any given time and does so while in the entity's active employ. This obligation is externalised in the form of a matching policy and therefore the Group does not recognise any provision in its consolidated financial statements.
In 2023 and 2022, the Company made contributions only for those employees hired prior to 1 January 2017 and who chose not to avail themselves of the new system, with total premium payments of € 95 thousand and € 105 thousand, respectively.
The present value of commitments made by the Company for post-employment benefits at 31 December 2023 was € 660 thousand, compared to € 644 thousand at 31 December 2022. These amounts include the outstanding mobilisation rights of employees who decided to join the new plan as of 1 January 2018. In 2023 and 2022, there were redemptions of € 66 thousand and € 50 thousand respectively.
Defined benefit pension obligations are externalised through group life insurance contracts, which allocates investments whose flows coincide in both time and amount with the amounts and timing of the insured benefits.
The present value of the commitments has been determined by independent qualified actuaries, who have applied the following actuarial assumptions for their quantification:
| Actuarial assumptions | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| Technical interest rate | Based on year in which premium is issued |
Based on year in which premium is issued |
| Mortality tables | GR95 for the initial segment. For new additions since 2005, PERMF 2020 for the Línea Directa Aseguradora policies and PERMF 2020 for Línea Directa Asistencia policies. |
GR95 for the initial segment. For new additions since 2005, PERMF 2020 for the Línea Directa Aseguradora policies and PERMF 2020 for Línea Directa Asistencia policies. |
| Annual wage growth rate | Línea Directa Aseguradora: 0.80% Línea Directa Asistencia: 3.00% |
Línea Directa Aseguradora: 1.44% Línea Directa Asistencia: 3.1% |
At 31 December 2023 and 2022, there were no accrued contributions outstanding.
"Related parties", in addition to the dependent and associated entities, are considered the "key personnel" of the Management of the Group (members of its Board of Directors and the Management Committee), as well as the shareholders who may directly or indirectly exercise control of the Group, as well as those or a significant influence on financial and operational decision-making as mentioned in ORDER EHA/3050/2004, of 15 September, on the information of the related transactions to be provided by companies issuing securities admitted to trading on official secondary markets.
Following the admission to listing of Línea Directa Aseguradora on 29 April 2021, the Bankinter Group and all the companies comprising that group are considered Significant Shareholders. Prior to that date, the Línea Directa Group was part of the Bankinter Group, which held a 99.99% stake. From the day of admission to trading until 31 December 2022, and as indicated in Note 15, Bankinter's stake dropped to 17.42% and it has had no seat on the Group's Board of Directors since the date of the IPO.
In 2023 and 2022, there were no intercompany transactions between Group companies that were not eliminated on consolidation.
Insurance brokerage fees accrued in 2023 and 2022 are as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Significant shareholders | 5,344 | 5,909 |
| Total | 5,344 | 5,909 |
The following table shows insurance premiums issued in 2023 and 2022:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Significant shareholders | 725 | 1,037 |
| Total | 725 | 1,037 |
This heading shows the aggregate amount of income and expenses recognised in the consolidated statement of profit or loss or other consolidated comprehensive income that concerns related party transactions.
| Significant shareholders | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | ||
| Services received | 1,284 | 1,546 | |
| Finance expenses | 338 | 479 | |
| Total expenses | 1,622 | 2,025 | |
| Services rendered | 769 | 880 | |
| Finance income | 1,291 | 801 | |
| Total income | 2,060 | 1,681 |
The amounts of expenses and income with significant shareholders relate to transactions with Bankinter Group companies that were carried out at arm's length.
Within expenses, "Services received" corresponds mainly to brokerage commissions for the sale of insurance policies in the Home segment. Meanwhile, financial expenses relate mainly to financial services, such as fees and commissions for managing receipts and for collecting card-based payments of insurance policy receipts.
Income from services rendered largely relates to remuneration under collaboration agreements for the marketing, sale and issuance of "Affinity" cards and the provision of personalised offers of financial products and services intended for the Group's existing policyholders.
A final dividend of € 1,091 thousand was agreed in 2023 to distribute the profit for 2022. As indicated in note 15d), interim dividends amounting to € 52,481 thousand had been approved in 2022.
The following table shows the relevant headings of the consolidated balance sheets at 31 December 2023 and 2022:
| Significant shareholders | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Note | 2023 | 2022 | ||
| Assets | ||||
| Financial assets measured at fair value through equity |
||||
| I. Equity instruments | 7a) | 10,550 | 10,175 | |
| II. Fixed-income securities | 7a) | 4,747 | 3,475 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 6 | 30,169 | 26,362 | |
| Other receivables | ||||
| Other receivables | 7a) | 416 | 447 | |
| Other assets | ||||
| Accruals | 49 | 34 | ||
| Total asset balances | 45,931 | 40,493 | ||
| Liabilities | ||||
| Due to group companies and associates | 7b) | 303 | - | |
| Total liability balances | 303 | - |
The remuneration accrued by the Group's directors and senior management in 2023 amounted to € 1,012 thousand and € 3,391 thousand, respectively (€ 1,104 thousand and € 4,052 thousand, respectively, in 2022), broken down as follows:
| 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fixed salary |
Variable salary |
Remuneration in kind |
Diets | Consolidated social security |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior management | 2,819 | 286 | 225 | - | 61 | 3,391 |
| Directors | 822 | 4 | 19 | 167 | - | 1,012 |
| Total | 3,641 | 290 | 244 | 167 | 61 | 4,403 |
2022
| Fixed salary |
Variable salary |
Remuneration in kind |
Diets | Consolidated social security |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior management | 3,419 | 380 | 191 | - | 62 | 4,052 |
| Directors | 830 | 22 | 31 | 221 | - | 1,104 |
| Total | 4,249 | 402 | 222 | 221 | 62 | 5,156 |
Senior management comprises the Group's Management Team, without counting the CEO, who qualifies as a Director, along with the other Board Members.
The Directors section includes the remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors in their capacity as such and for their executive functions. The figures for 2022 include the remuneration for executive duties of the former CEO for the period running from 1 January 2022 to 17 February 2022, as well as the remuneration of the current CEO for her current functions as of 17 February 2022. The table does not include the compensation received by the former CEO due to his departure from the company, who in 2022 received € 405 thousand for this item, leaving € 270 thousand deferred over following three years. No information is shown for the former CEO in 2023, although during that year he did receive the first deferred payment of the compensation for his departure, the deferred payment of previous variables as well as the payment of consideration for the non-compete clause, amounting to € 194,301.
The "Fixed salary" item of Senior Management includes the amounts accrued for the departure of members of the Management Committee, in accordance with prevailing law and regulations.
The item "Variable salary" does not include amounts accrued during the year that are to be deferred to future years and which are subject to malus and clawback clauses. The variable salary from 2022 to be deferred over the following three financial years (2024, 2025 and 2026) amounted to € 159 thousand for Senior Management and € 15 thousand for the CEO, with an equal amount delivered in shares. The other directors do not have any variable salary. In 2023, the variable salary of the senior management to be deferred over the next three years (2025, 2026 and 2027) amounted to € 28 thousand. In the case of the Chief Executive Officer, the portion shown in the table relates to the non-deferred accrued portion of their salary, having accrued another portion in shares. The deferred amount corresponding to the following three years (2025, 2026 and 2027) is € 3 thousand in cash, receiving the same amount in shares.
The item "Per diems/allowances" for 2023 and 2022 shows the per diems received by all persons who sat on the Board of Directors during the financial year.
The item "Consolidated social security" includes a defined contribution savings and retirement scheme in the form of a savings policy for the Group's senior management. The savings policy in favour of the Group's senior management accrued € 61 thousand in company
contributions and € 12 thousand in individual contributions from executives in 2023. Its mathematical provision at year-end 2023 amounted to € 746 thousand. During 2022, accrued premiums from company contributions amounted to € 58 thousand, and to € 4 thousand from individual contributions from executives. The mathematical provision at the end of that year was € 664 thousand.
The Group also has a collective insurance policy in effect to formalise its retirement pension commitments with certain members of Senior Management and the CEO. These defined contribution policies are also externalised and regular contributions are made for the different members of the group (Note 21). In 2023, this policy generated premium payments of € 542 thousand (€ 626 thousand in 2022) and no surrenders took place (€ 1,102 in surrenders in 2022). The mathematical provision for pensions for members of Senior Management amounted to € 11,014 thousand at 31 December 2023 (€ 9,554 thousand in 2022). The contributions made are not shown in the table above because they are nonvested remuneration, since there are events and circumstances that may entail their nonpayment in the future.
In 2023, the Group paid € 32 thousand in D&O insurance premiums (€ 55 thousand in 2022) for members of Senior Management and other executives with decision-making powers at the Group.
At 31 December 2023 and 2022, no advances or loans had been granted by the Parent to the members of its Board of Directors or Senior Management and no obligations had been assumed on their behalf as way of guarantee or collateral.
Guarantees committed to third parties stand at € 46 thousand at 31 December 2023, mainly corresponding to rentals for warehouses (€ 1,874 thousand at December 2022). In addition, € 1,495 thousand have been pledged as sureties for court guarantees against claims at 31 December 2023 (€ 701 thousand at 31 December 2022). The Group has also provided guarantees for office rentals amounting to € 121 thousand at 31 December 2023 (€ 121 thousand at 31 December 2022), which expire annually.
The breakdown of staff expenses in 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Wages and salaries | 91,877 | 93,716 |
| Termination benefits | 4,895 | 5,270 |
| Social security contributions and others | 26,724 | 27,054 |
| Total personnel expenses | 123,496 | 126,040 |
The average number of Group employees on the payroll in 2023 and 2022, broken down by occupational category, is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | |
| Managers | 72 | 38 | 35 | 71 | 36 | 35 |
| Sales reps/technicians | 355 | 167 | 188 | 361 | 171 | 190 |
| Sales reps/technicians | 661 | 400 | 261 | 695 | 420 | 275 |
| Staff | 1,400 | 830 | 570 | 1,411 | 833 | 578 |
| Total | 2,488 | 1,435 | 1,053 | 2,538 | 1,460 | 1,078 |
Meanwhile, the distribution by gender of the Group's employees and directors, broken down by category and gender, was as follows at year-end 2023 and 2022:
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | |
| Directors | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Managers | 72 | 37 | 35 | 74 | 37 | 37 |
| Expert professionals | 348 | 163 | 185 | 356 | 169 | 187 |
| Professionals | 658 | 397 | 261 | 676 | 412 | 264 |
| Staff | 1,427 | 862 | 565 | 1,394 | 814 | 580 |
| Total | 2,512 | 1,463 | 1,049 | 2,507 | 1,436 | 1,071 |
The average number of employees with a degree of disability greater than or equal to 33% in 2023 was 39 (2022: 39).
The Group's Chief Executive Officer and members of the Management Committee are included in an extraordinary remuneration plan of the Group, consisting of the delivery of shares over the three years following the IPO. The Plan was approved at the Annual General Meeting held on 18 March 2021, which was set as the award date of the Plan. It is intended to motivate and build the loyalty of plan members by offering them the option of receiving a certain number of shares within
the three years following the date of the Company's stock market listing. The main features of the plan are as follows:
The cost of the programme for the Group is recorded as a staff expense with a balancing entry in a reserve for own shares in equity in the consolidated balance sheet. This expense will be progressively written off on the three anniversaries as and when the shares are delivered to the employees.
At 31 December 2022 and 2023, the staff expense accrued and recognised amounted to € 978 thousand. This allocation was made on the assumption that all plan members would meet the tenure condition on each anniversary.
The value of the incentive to be received in shares of the Parent is assessed on the basis of the fair value of the equity instruments allocated at the grant date, considering the terms and conditions of the Plan. The number of equity instruments included when determining the amount of the transaction is adjusted each year through to the vesting date.
The Parent had 637,586 treasury shares available for the remuneration plan. Since 29 April 2021, the date of the IPO, on which the Company was awarded 239,678 own shares in the exchange of Bankinter shares, the Parent has made successive acquisitions of shares, all duly communicated to the CNMV, to complete the remuneration plan. The average purchase price of these shares was € 1.57 per share. Some shares were delivered in 2022, while the others are shown in equity [Note 15c)].
Of the 13 participants in the Remuneration Plan, 12 are employees of the Parent, while one of them is employed by another Group company, namely Línea Directa Asistencia.
The Parent will deliver the corresponding shares to the employee of the subsidiary Línea Directa Asistencia on the three anniversaries, with the cost being borne by the subsidiary and the Entity receiving cash as consideration for the fair value of the shares delivered.
At year-end 2022 and 2023, employees were offered the opportunity to partake in a share purchase plan as part of their flexible remuneration. The plan was aimed at all employees of the Parent Company (not including other group companies) with a minimum of six months' tenure and did not apply to members of the Board of Directors.
The plan consisted of two programmes lasting two months (November and December 2022)
aimed at facilitating the acquisition of Línea Directa shares among employees through a flexible remuneration programme subject to a beneficial tax regime. The conditions for being able to include the plan in the flexible remuneration programme were as follows: the amount to be allocated would be capped at € 12,000 per year, the shares must be held for three years, and the delivery may not exceed the upper limit for overall remuneration in kind of 30% of the total remuneration, nor may the minimum wage be affected in any way.
The Plan was launched at a 5% discount on the share price. The Plan was approved by the Board of Directors in September and October of 2022 and 2023, following a report by the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee.
| Acquisition date |
Type of acquisition | Quantity | Price | Market value (in thousand euro) |
Acquisition cost (in thousand euro) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.11.2022 Acquisition under the employee programme | 214,000 | 0.99 | 210 | 210 | |
| 16.11.2022 Acquisition under the employee programme | 10,000 | 0.94 | 9 | 9 | |
| 22.11.2022 | Delivered to employees | (104,529) | 0.96 | (100) | (100) |
| 22.12.2022 | Delivered to employees | (100,147) | 1.00 | (100) | (100) |
| 22.11.2023 | Delivered to employees | (44,444) | 0.82 | (36) | (70) |
| 22.12.2023 | Delivered to employees | (72,327) | 0.80 | (57) | (113) |
| Total | (97,447) | 0.92 | (74) | (164) |
Changes in treasury shares under the employee share ownership plan are as follows:
The following is a breakdown of the audit fees and other services provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores, S.L. during the year for the consolidated and separate financial statements of the consolidated companies (fees excluding expenses and VAT):
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Audit services* | 279 | 241 |
| Other services required by law | 140 | 111 |
| Other attest services | 43 | 45 |
| Total professional services | 462 | 397 |
*The amount of audit services accrued refers to the audit fees for the annual financial statements of the entire Línea Directa Group.
The heading "Other services required by law" mainly shows the fees for the review of the report on the financial position and solvency of the parent and its subsidiaries, as well as for the independent external attest service under limited assurance of the Group's Non-Financial Statement (NFS).
The main items included under "Other attest services" relate to the issuance of the agreed-upon procedures report on the Group's Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) system, the limited review of the condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the year and limited reviews of the Group's subsidiaries.
The Group did not make any investments or incur any expenses in relation to environmental protection activities in 2023 or 2022.
The Group's directors consider that no significant contingencies exist when it comes to environmental protection and improvement and did not consider it necessary to post any provision for environmental risks and expenses at 31 December 2023 or 2022.
No amount was allocated to those items, nor was there any changes in expenses or provisions in 2023 and 2022, and nor were any forward contracts signed or grants received in relation to greenhouse gas emission allowances.
At the end of 2023 and 2022, no Group director (or persons related to the Group as defined in Article 229 of the Spanish Corporate Enterprises Act) had notified the members of the Board of Directors of any situation of direct or indirect conflict with the interests of the Group.
The legal regulatory framework for financial services provides customers with the appropriate level of protection to ensure confidence in the functioning of the markets. Notably, Order ECO/734/2004, of 11 March, on customer care and ombudsman departments and services of financial institutions, requires insurance undertakings to have a customer care department or service, in order to attend to and resolve complaints and claims presented by their customers wishing to exercise their legally recognised rights and interests.
The decision shall be reasoned and contain clear conclusions in respect of the request raised in each complaint or claim, based on the applicable contractual terms, rules on transparency and customer expectations, as well as good financial practices and usages.
During 2023, a total of 7,637 cases were handled (5,809 in 2022),
of which 630, or 8.25%, were complaints (398 complaints, 6.85%, in 2022) and 7,007, or 91.75%, were claims
(5,411 claims, 93.15%, in 2022). Of the total, 21% related to Policy quoting and management, 66.39% to Accident management and 3.33% to the Roadside assistance service (2022: 20.86%, 69.48% and 3.10%, respectively).
The breakdown by type of case managed by the Group in 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % of total | Number | % of total | |
| Complaints | 630 | 8.25% | 398 | 7.00% |
| Claims | 7,007 | 91.75% | 5,411 | 93.00% |
| Total cases handled | 7,637 | 100.00% | 5,809 | 100.00% |
The breakdown by department of the cases generated by the Group in 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % of total | Number | % of total | |
| Quotations and policy management | 1,605 | 21.02% | 1,212 | 21.00% |
| Accident management | 5,070 | 66.39% | 4,036 | 69.00% |
| Roadside assistance service | 255 | 3.34% | 180 | 3.00% |
| Other | 707 | 9.26% | 381 | 7.00% |
| Total cases handled | 7,637 | 100.00% | 5,809 | 100.00% |
Main issues raised by customers:
Rejection of damage claim following expert inspection
Of the total complaints and claims received in 2023, 82.06% (82.10% in 2022) have been considered upheld and 39.86% admissible (38.13% in 2022).
Also, in 2023, 488 cases were concluded before the Customer Ombudsman (428 files in the 2022 financial year), 56.15% of which were unfavourable to the claimant and referred to the usual issues, mainly:
The percentage of decisions issued against the policyholders' interests was higher than in the previous year, as in 2023 214 of the 488 decisions issued were favourable to the policyholder, while in 2022 they were 287 of the 428, with percentages of 43.85% and 67.05% and revealing a percentage difference between years of 23.20%.
In his report, the Consumer Ombudsman calls for prompter handling of claims so that, between LINEA DIRECTA and the Consumer Ombudsman, they can be resolved ahead of the deadlines prescribed by applicable law and regulations on consumer affairs, pursuant to Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, of 16 November. It also suggests that the general terms and conditions of the policies, containing their delimitation of risks, exclusions and limitation of liability clauses, should be signed at the same time as the special terms and conditions, whether the product is arranged remotely or via traditional channels.
The following table provides the information required under Final Provision Two of Law 31/2014, of 3 December.
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Days | Days | |
| Average payment period to suppliers* | 20.80 | 18.55 |
| Ratio of transactions paid* | 20.81 | 18.51 |
| Ratio of transactions outstanding* | 20.60 | 20.24 |
| Amount | Amount | |
| (in thousand euro) | (in thousand euro) | |
| Total payments made | 340,996 | 334,881 |
| Total outstanding payments | 13,891 | 7,859 |
(*) When a figure is shown in brackets, it means that the amount is negative, representing either a faster average payment in relation to the maximum payment period prescribed by law, or otherwise that the outstanding transactions are, on average, at a point in time prior to reaching that maximum period.
| 2023 | |
|---|---|
| Days | |
| Invoices paid within the legal limit | 102,744 |
| Percentage of total invoices | 85.86% |
| Total invoices | 119,660 |
| Amount | |
| (in thousand euro) | |
| Monetary volume within legal limit | 314,136 |
| Percentage of total monetary value of payments to suppliers | 88.52% |
| Total monetary value of invoices | 354,888 |
The data shown in the above tables on the average payment period to suppliers relate to trade payables on debts with suppliers of goods and services, excluding payments of claims in 2023 and 2022.
The term "average payment period to suppliers" means the time taken in paying, or the delay in paying, trade payables. This "average payment period to suppliers' is calculated as a ratio where the numerator is the sum of the ratio of transactions paid divided by the total amount of payments made plus the ratio of transactions outstanding divided by the total amount of payments outstanding, while the denominator is the total amount of payments made divided by the amount of payments outstanding.
The ratio of transactions paid is calculated as a ratio where the numerator is the sum of the products corresponding to the amounts paid divided by the number of days of payment (difference between the calendar days running from the end of the maximum legal payment period through to effective payment of the transaction), while denominator is the total amount of payments made.
Meanwhile, the ratio of transactions pending payment is a ratio where the numerator is the sum of the products corresponding to the amounts pending payment, divided by the number of days pending payment (difference between the calendar days running from the end of the maximum legal payment period through to the close date of the consolidated financial statements), and the denominator is the total amount of payments pending.
In September 2022, Law 18/2022 amended Additional Provision Three, on the duty to disclose information contained in Law 15/2010, which in turn amended Law 3/2004, on measures to combat late payment in commercial transactions. This amendment states that listed companies must publish on their website, in addition to the average payment period, the monetary volume and the number of invoices paid in a period shorter than the legal maximum period, as well as the ratio of those invoices to the total number of invoices and the total monetary amount of payments made to suppliers.
No significant events have occurred after the end of 2023 and up to the date of authorisation for issue of these consolidated financial statements.


Línea Directa Aseguradora relies on a business strategy that seeks profitable and sustainable growth, generating value for its shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers and society in general. This strategy is based on the pillars that define and differentiate Línea Directa Group from its competitors and is adapted to meet the present and future challenges and opportunities arising from market circumstances.
Línea Directa Aseguradora started its activity in 1995 with a business model based on direct distribution. The entity operates through telephone and digital channels, having no branch networks, and all of its operations are centralised at its headquarters in Tres Cantos (Madrid), which translates into greater efficiency. Technical rigour, innovation in marketing and products, as well as advanced digitalisation in processes add value to the model, allowing the entity to offer the customer comprehensive products and an extraordinary quality of service at more competitive prices.
Throughout its 28 years of activity, Línea Directa Aseguradora has sustained a profitable and organic growth in customers and income, which has allowed the company to rank 13th among nonlife insurance groups in Spain in terms of premium income.
With an insurance portfolio of more than 3.3 million customers, the Group's premium income at the end of 2023 stood at € 973.3 million, driven by the growth in turnover of the three business segments in which it operates – Motor, Home and Health. In a context of continued inflation that has led to a sharp deterioration in the margins of the insurance sector as a whole, Línea Directa's strategy has been to prioritise profitable growth through excellent risk selection and an adaptation of rates to the risk of each customer at the current time.
The Group's strategic priority in the current market environment is to improve insurance margins through various channels: adjusting premiums and insurance standards to current risks, optimising claims management and continuously increasing efficiency through strict control of overheads and productivity gains, supported in particular by a growing digitisation of processes.
Línea Directa Group's ambition is to maintain profitable and sustained growth by generating new business and increasing the loyalty of the portfolio. To this end, it aims to cover all customers' insurance needs through a highly competitive offer, based on insurance policies with broad and unique coverage, a high quality of service and an excellent user experience thanks to its digital service range.
Throughout 2023, Línea Directa launched innovative products, such as "Car + Home Formula", the first step by an insurer in Spain towards the packaging of policies for the same family unit, by offering car and home insurance together; "Mortgage Free", a home insurance specifically designed for people who have finished paying their mortgage, and "Squatter Free Home", the first complete and comprehensive cover against illegal occupation of the home.
In recent years, the Company has also been committed to being at the forefront of the boom in sustainable vehicles, personal mobility vehicles (PMVs) and new formulas for use and ownership such as renting, extending, for instance, its Respira Policy, the insurance for electric cars and plug-in hybrids that it launched in 2016, to electric motorbikes in 2023.
Meanwhile, Línea Directa, Bankinter Consumer Finance and VASS have created "CarnRoll", a digital platform for the sale of used vehicles with financing and insurance included. And, in order to encourage the renewal of the vehicle fleet and promote road safety, the Company launched the "ADAS Campaign" with discounts on policies for vehicles that incorporate an advanced driving assistance system.
This is in addition to other commercial innovations launched by the Company in recent years in this field such as "Call it X", the first insurance with car included, and "Safe&Go", a specific policy for users of scooters and other VMPs.
The Company continues to make progress in its digital transformation with the aim of becoming more efficient and offering a better service. To this end, the Company has been focused on improving and developing advances already made, while at the same time implementing new technologies that contribute to optimising the management of its processes.
Digitalisation contributes to improving customer experience, serving policyholders at any time and place and making useful products and services available to them, as well as enhancing digital channels as a customer relationship point, thus increasing commercial opportunities.
Throughout 2023, Línea Directa has extended the digitalisation of its internal processes, increased the range of digital services offered to its customers through the mobile application, and optimised claims
Relying on the use of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Company already applies natural language processing to the administration of claims. This has enabled it to reduce the operational burden and errors in managing digital claims, streamlining the process and improving user experience. And also due to the improvements achieved with AI, 75% of Línea Directa's annual verifications are now carried out digitally, allowing the Group to increase the efficiency of this process and move towards automatic damage assessment without human intervention.
Policyholders can now carry out most of the procedures related to their policies through the Línea Directa App and website, such as contracting, registering accident reports and following them up. A positive customer experience has translated into a high degree of penetration of digital services, with more than 87% of policyholders now interacting with the Company through digital channels, and interactions through digital channels outnumbering contacts over the phone by 59%.
Línea Directa is a multi-line insurance company currently operating in the Motor, Home and Health segments.
At the end of 2023, the Motor segment accounted for 81% of the company's premium income, with revenues of € 792.7 million, and constituting 74.5% of its insurance portfolio, with over 2.47 million policies underwritten, making Línea Directa the fifth largest insurer in the segment by premium volume at the end of 2023.
In the Motor segment, the Company offers a comprehensive and personalised range of policies for cars, motorbikes, personal mobility vehicles and professional vehicles for individuals, large companies, SMEs and the self-employed.
Meanwhile, the Company's catalogue ranges from classic policies (All Risks, All Risks with Excess, Extended Third Party and Third Party) to differential covers such as Super Third Party, which extends third-party insurance guarantees to cover policyholders' own damage in certain circumstances.
The company also offers specific coverage for accidents damaging animals or the possibility of choosing between repair and compensation in some claims. Línea Directa Group operates in this sector with two other independent brands: Penélope Seguros, created in 2012 with cover specially designed for women, and Aprecio, an insurance policy aimed at motorbike users.
The Home segment, in which the company began operating in 2008, has become an engine of growth and diversification for Línea Directa. With a premium turnover of € 149.4 million and 727,000 homes insured, this line of business already contributes 15% of the Group's income and 22% of its customer portfolio. Currently, the company is ranked 13th in the Home insurance sector by turnover.
In recent years, the group has boosted its home insurance range through alliances with companies in other sectors. The aim is to give its customers access to other housing-related services on advantageous terms, to attract new policyholders and to promote energy efficiency in homes.
New developments in 2023 include the launch of its comprehensive coverage against squatting, which has seen a high penetration among new customers.
As part of the company's strategy of diversifying its business, in late 2017 Línea Directa Aseguradora started operations in the health insurance business under the Vivaz brand. In just six years and operating in a very mature and concentrated market, the Group has gained 117,000 policyholders and € 30.4 million in revenues, making it one of the 25 largest health insurers in Spain.
The insurer's growth in this segment is based on its digital approach, the ease and flexibility of its customer experience, the competitiveness of its premiums and the breadth and quality of its medical staff which, in alliance with DKV, is made up of 51,000 professionals and
1,000 health centres and hospitals.
The Company is particularly attentive to preventive medicine and the promotion of healthy lifestyles among policyholders and society as a whole. For instance, the Group allows its customers to benefit from preventive diagnostic tests without requiring any symptomatology. It also encourages its policyholders to follow healthy habits, such as walking at least
10,000 steps a day, sleeping at least 7 hours a day and keeping a healthy diet. These habits lead to significant discounts on insurance renewal for customers up to € 200.
At the end of 2023, Vivaz Activity, the app that monitors adherence to these healthy habits, had more than 19,000 registered users. During 2023, app users recorded an average of 219,500 steps per month per person and a total of 42 million hours of sleep, resulting in an average discount of € 45.15
per customer.
In 2023, a major milestone took place in this business segment. As part of the company's multiline strategy, Health insurance is now marketed directly under the Línea Directa brand. The sale of products under the main brand, leader in notoriety in the larger insurance sector, is aimed at strengthening customer loyalty, as well as boosting the growth and diversification of the organisation. It will also allow the Company to offer customers a comprehensive and homogeneous customer journey, reinforcing synergies and cross-selling capabilities.
This rebranding has not entailed any change in customer coverage or conditions, as policyholders continue to access the medical directory and the rest of the services offered by the company through its app in the same way, as well as continuing to be included in the rewards programme for maintaining healthy habits.
On an operational level, the Company handled a total of 40,542 chat and videoconference queries in 2023, compared to 42,872 the previous year. Among the most requested online consultations are those with general practitioners, nutritionists, paediatricians and gynaecologists.
Línea Directa Asistencia is the Group's subsidiary specialising in verification, appraisal and travel assistance services. The subsidiary operates a network of thousands of employees throughout Spain, providing vehicle and personal assistance 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
In 2023, Línea Directa Asistencia provided more than 624,500 roadside services nationwide.
Also, thanks to the agreements with the European partners of Astrum Alliance, the world's leading association of travel assistance companies, it can offer this service to both Spanish and foreign customers, inside and outside Spain, 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in Spanish, English, German and Portuguese, for both the vehicle and its occupants in the event of a breakdown, accident or theft.
Línea Directa Asistencia offers innovative mobility and roadside assistance solutions through its own team and a wide and experienced network of partners.
In addition to an extensive network of collaborators, comprising more than 1,000 bodywork, mechanics and laminated glass workshops, Línea Directa Aseguradora has two state-of-the-art workshops of its own, known as Advanced Repair Centres (CAR), located in Madrid and Barcelona. These workshops offer a comprehensive service to the customer, from the report initiation to the repair of the vehicle, always under the Group's high standards of quality, commitment and excellence.
The two Línea Directa Aseguradora workshops carried out a total of
17,207 repairs in 2023. Of these, CAR Madrid, in operation since 2008, was responsible for 9,850 repairs (-0.2%), and CAR Barcelona, established in 2018, handled 7,357 of the claims (+ 1.6%).
The knowledge and information accumulated by both centres has enabled the Group to significantly expand its knowledge and innovation capacity in repair processes, boost quality and reduce claim costs. CAR workshops are able to manage all their internal and external processes 100% online, allowing customers to carry out a wide range of procedures through the channel, such as changing their appointments, requesting a replacement vehicle or checking the status of their repair, among others.
All this has resulted in an excellent rating by users. The NSS (Net satisfaction score) of CAR Barcelona and CAR Madrid stood at 42.86 and 43.67 points at the end of 2023, compared to an average 30.14 points for non-network workshops. CAR also has its own fleet of replacement vehicles that, free of charge, are made available to customers until the repair has been completed.
As part of the reorganisation of the company's delivery processes, LDAReparaciones ceased to operate as a partnership in December 2023.
For years, the Línea Directa Group has maintained a firm commitment to sustainability, most recently materialised through its three-year Sustainability Plan, in force until 2025. The plan includes 87 actions in 15 areas for the period 2023-2025, in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and integrated into the corporate strategy.
In terms of commercial activity, the Group has been developing and launching various products and services which, in addition to meeting the business and growth objectives in each of the three segments in which it operates (Motor, Home and Health), aim to have a positive impact on society and the environment.
Within its Motor segment, Línea Directa offers the Respira Policy, the first insurance policy specifically
aimed at zero-emission cars (including plug-in hybrid vehicles). The company closed the 2023 financial year with more than 26,400 electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in its portfolio and a market share of 10.1% of new registrations in this car segment.
In response to the uncertainty generated in consumers by the restrictions on the most polluting vehicles and the rise of new forms of mobility and ownership, Línea Directa began marketing in 2020 "Llámalo X", the first All Risk insurance with car included for a fixed price per month, including maintenance and taxes. This solution, which has been very well received at the launch of each of the promotions, regularly includes environmentally friendly vehicles. By the end of 2023, "Llámalo X" had around 2,600 policies with a car included.
Línea Directa customers have at their disposal the ConducTOP mobile application, a programme that analyses the driving style of its users with the aim of making it safer and, therefore, more sustainable. The app takes into account the smoothness of cornering and braking, acceleration and adherence to speed limits, as well as concentration at the wheel. Policyholders with the highest scores accumulate points and discounts that can be exchanged for products and services at Cepsa petrol stations. At year-end 2023, the App had accumulated 66,578 downloads in the Android and IOS stores.
The Advanced Repair Centres (CAR), Línea Directa's own state-of-the-art workshops, have among their services a wide range of Eco-labelled replacement vehicles, with LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) combustion, a propulsion system with almost zero CO2 emissions.
Also in the area of sustainable insurance, Línea Directa Asistencia runs the Night Assistance for Young People service, which offers night-time transport for customers under 26 years of age if they have drunk alcohol or feel unwell. This service, which is completely free of charge, covers both the driver and their vehicle. The aim of this initiative, unique in the sector, is to avoid risky situations for a group particularly exposed to traffic accidents.
In recent years, mobility has undergone a profound transformation that has given rise to new ways of getting around, including personal mobility vehicles (PMVs), such as electric scooters and bicycles. Aware of this new reality, Línea Directa offers Safe&Go, the first 100% digital insurance aimed at users of all types of PMVs.
Safe&Go can be taken out at the customer's request to cover a single journey (under the on/off or payper-use concept), or for a whole year. To do this, users can activate and deactivate their insurance through the Safe&Go app and only pay for the actual time of use for each ride. Pay-per-use has a flat rate of 2 cents per minute. There are three different offers in the annual package, depending on the scope of coverage, ranging from € 18.35 for the most basic product to € 38.96 for the most comprehensive product.
Safe&Go not only covers damage caused to third parties, but can also cover physical damage suffered by users themselves, and even legal defence. In addition, in the event of an accident, the app pinpoints the location for emergency services, which can shorten their response time and get users help quickly.
The main novelty of this product is that, compared to the traditional model of car insurance, Safe&Go does not insure the vehicle but the person and their mobility, avoiding administrative formalities such as registration of the vehicle while guaranteeing sustainable and safe mobility.
In 2023, Línea Directa Aseguradora added to its Multi-risk insurance "Hogar Despreokupado", a unique cover in Spain that protects the homeowner against the legal and economic consequences derived from the illegal occupation of their home. The policy, which has been very well received commercially, includes up to € 10,000 in legal assistance from the company and legal costs (lawyer, solicitor, expert witness, notary fees, court costs and fees) to recover your home and financial compensation for expenses to repair the damage and other costs.
The product covers repair of the property, offering a choice between provision of the service by Línea Directa's tradespeople, with no financial limit, or reimbursement of € 5,000 if the insured arrange the work themselves.
They will also be compensated with: € 300 per month for six months for water, electricity and gas bills for their main residence; € 800 per month for six months for loss of rental income; € 800 per month for six months if they need alternative accommodation. The cover also includes up to € 7,500 for damage to third parties caused by the squatters.
The Línea Directa Aseguradora Group is made up of:
A-80871031 and registered office is at Calle Isaac Newton 7, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain (from now on, the "Company" or "Línea Directa Aseguradora"); and

The Company has a Corporate Governance Policy, approved by the board of directors on 20 July 2021 and updated in 2022, which sets out the corporate and governance structure of Línea Directa Group, its underlying principles, its bodies and the essential rules of its internal operations.
Línea Directa Aseguradora's shares have been listed on the Spanish stock market (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia Stock Exchanges) since 29 April 2021.
The Annual General Meeting is the Company's sovereign body. The duly convened shareholders meet there to deliberate and decide, by the majorities required in each case, on the matters in which they have a say.
The Board of Directors is the body responsible for the Company's administration, governance and representation, in accordance with the duties assigned to it by law, the Bylaws and the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Directors.
According to the provisions of the Bylaws, the Board of Directors must be composed of a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 15 directors and it must be made up in such a way that ensures compliance with the requirements of the Spanish Corporate Enterprises Act and Articles 13, 38 and 65 et seq. of Law 20/2015, of 14 July, on the regulation, supervision and solvency of insurance and reinsurance companies, and Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the takingup and pursuit of the business of insurance and reinsurance in such a way that its members have the appropriate professional qualifications, competence and experience, as well as the requirements of good repute required by the Supervisor and included in the Company's Fitness and Good Repute Policy.
Seven members make up the new Board of Directors, which is an appropriate and efficient size for its effective functioning.
The composition of the Board reflects Línea Directa Aseguradora's commitment to diversity, with 57% of its members being women, exceeding the minimum recommended thresholds in this area. Furthermore, only one of the directors is an executive.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors has no executive functions, being a separate position from that of Chief Executive Officer.
There are two advisory committees (the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee) which are composed entirely of external (non-executive) directors and a majority of independent directors, including their chairmen.
These Committees assume the powers provided for by law and in the CNMV's Code of Good Governance, as set out in the Regulations of the Board of Directors of the Company. It should be noted that the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for the competencies related to the strategy and practices in sustainability matters recommended by the Code of Good Governance.
Since its IPO, the Company has approved and updated its internal regulations and corporate policies (among others, Corporate Governance Policy, Director Selection Policy, Communication Policy with shareholders, investors and proxy advisors, Related-Party Transactions Policy or Directors' Remuneration Policy), all in accordance with CNMV's Good Governance Code and the Spanish Corporate Enterprises Act. In 2023, the Regulations of the Board have been updated to, inter alia, expressly attribute to the Board of Directors certain powers provided for in legislation,
thus avoiding the dispersion of rules and regulations, and to specify some of the functions of the consultative committees. The full report with the amendments enacted will be made available to shareholders together with the documents convening the next Annual General Meeting.
At the executive level, the Company has a management committee, composed of the CEO and the officers responsible for the main functional areas of the Company: Motor, Home, Health, Services and Benefits, Technical Area, Finance, Digital Transformation, Technology, Marketing, General Secretariat, and People, Communication, Sustainability and Quality. There are also specific committees for analysis and deliberation on highly relevant issues such as investments or sustainability, as well as specific teams that manage the critical functions of Línea Directa as an insurance company: Operational Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Actuarial and Internal Audit functions.
Aside from the Company's regular contact with shareholders and other stakeholders throughout the year, and the information permanently available on the corporate website (https://www.lineadirectaaseguradora.com/gobier no-corporativo), a detailed account of Línea Directa's governance system and practices is provided in its Annual Corporate Governance Report, which is published in the CNMV and on the corporate website together with the other documents related to the call for the next Annual General Meeting.
In 2023, global economic activity remained buoyant despite the tightening of global monetary policy and multiple sources of geopolitical uncertainty. Israel's incursion into Gaza dominated the latter part of the year and the whole of the Middle East and the West are watching the situation closely due to the risk of a further escalation. In the meantime, there has still been no solution to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
GDP growth slowed markedly - with considerable heterogeneity across regions - and is not expected to pick up appreciably in 2024, partly as a result of the expected loss of growth momentum in the United States and China.
The global disinflationary process has continued in recent months. The decline in inflationary pressures has continued to have a more pronounced impact in headline than in core inflation rates, moderated by the relatively higher persistence of inflation in the price of services.
At their most recent policy meetings, both the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to leave their policy rates unchanged after raising them to their highest levels since 2008. Communications from these central banks – which had been emphasising that policy rates would probably have to remain at their current levels for an extended period of time in order to bring inflation back towards medium-term target rates – begin to signal that the current monetary tightening cycle may have peaked and that now the restrictive monetary policy should be given time to unfold its full effects.
Global financial market behaviour has continued to be shaped by expectations regarding the future course of monetary policy. Because these expectations, have changed substantially in the last few months of 2023, we have seen significant declines in long-term interest rates and strong gains in the major stock market indices.
In the currency markets , In the currency markets, the strength of the US economy and the Federal Reserve's tight monetary policy, determined to fight inflation and raise interest rates by keeping them higher for longer, have boosted the value of the dollar against the major currencies. The euro, after hitting a 20-year low against the dollar in 2022, has rebounded slightly, closing 2023 up 3.16%.
Economic activity in the euro area, has remained clearly weak and, looking ahead, is
The Spanish economy slowed down in the second half of the year. The indicators available for the fourth quarter suggest that activity kept up a similar dynamism to that recorded in the previous quarter and that GDP increased by 0.3% quarter-on-quarter: all in all, the year-on-year change in Spanish GDP according to the Ministry of Economy's advance data reveals a GDP growth of 2.5%, well below that seen in previous years (+6.4% and +5.8% for 2021 and 2022, respectively).
| Spain | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| GDP % var. | +5.8% | +2.5% |
| Private consumption % var. | +4.4% | n.d. |
| Household savings rate | 7.2% | 11.7% |
| Unemployment | 12.9% | 11.8% |
| Debt/GDP | 113.2% | 109.8% |
Source: INE, EPA, Bank of Spain
Inflation in Spain moderated over the course of the year, closing at 3.1%. Core inflation eased to 3.8%, its lowest level since March 2022.

By the end of 2023, year-on-year increase in employment in Spain had exceeded 783,000 people, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). However, Spain's unemployment rate is still the highest in the European Union (11.76%).
The insurance sector, with its counter-cyclical nature, reached a premium volume of 76,463 million euros, a growth of 18%, well above the 4.8% recorded in 2022. Growth was asymmetric: life insurance grew by 36.3% to € 33,452 million, driven by rising interest rates, while non-life premiums increased by a solid but much more moderate 6.8% to € 43,011 million, according to data published by the Insurance Entities Cooperative Research (ICEA).
The Motor segment, which represents 28% of total non-life turnover, grew by 6.6% (compared to a growth of 3.3% in 2022), mainly due to the increase in average premiums among the industry in general in response to strong inflation, which was passed on to the cost of claims. The growth in the number of insured vehicles also contributed, albeit to a lesser extent, with a year-on-year increase of 1.5% to 33,411,116 insured vehicles, according to data from the FIVA (Fichero Informativo de Vehículos Asegurados).
We have also seen a slight recovery in the number of registrations (+16.7%), driven by an increased outflow of stock following the supply crisis, which is still in the process of being resolved. In any case, sales figures are still extraordinarily low. During 2023, the number of registrations fell 24.6% below 2019 registrations, a dip which, together with inflation, continues to weigh on the industry's ultimate recovery, and is translating into an ageing of the insured fleet, which is already more than 14 years old in average. Renting continues to consolidate its position as an alternative for mobility, with registrations growing by 16.3% in 2023.
The profitability of the Motor segment, however, has been severely eroded, resulting in a technical loss with a combined ratio of 104.2% in the fourth quarter and 101.6% for the full year 2023. The segment was hit hard by a sharp increase in average costs, both in property damage, with the strong impact on repair costs (spare parts, paint, glass and labour) and in the injury rate, which recorded an overall increase of 8.5%. The increase in the rate has been set at 3.8% for 2024.
The development in recent years of a series of repair and damage cost indicators is shown below:

The Home segment recorded an outstanding year of growth, despite the transmission of the tightening of monetary policy to credit and the sharp slowdown in home sales, with the figure for November dropping 15% year-on-year. The drops adds to the declines seen in the last eleven months, according to the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE).

Despite this, the Home segment grew by 6.4% in 2023, compared to a growth of 5.5% in 2022, thanks to rate adjustments and increased penetration.
The profitability of the segment was weighed down by weather events and higher repair costs, ending the year with a combined ratio of 97.9%, up 1.5 p.p. vs. 2022.

Source: State Meteorological Agency of Spain
The Health segment grew by 6.6%, slightly less than the 7.6% recorded in 2022. The segment now accounts for more than 26% of total non-life turnover, second only to Motor. Despite the slowdown in the inflow of new policyholders linked to the economic cycle, Health had a more than remarkable growth also supported by the rate adjustments enacted in the sector as a result of the increase in medical expenses and hospital costs. In terms of profitability, the combined ratio closed the year at 94.4%.
The Group implemented standards IFRS-EU 17 "Insurance contracts" and IFRS-EU 9 "Financial instruments" for the first time on 1 January 2023. These new standards have brought about changes in the recognition and measurement of insurance and reinsurance contracts and financial instruments. However, given the business segments in which the Group operates and their nature and cycles, these changes have not had a material impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements.
Further details on the impacts and implications of these new standards are included in the Group's Consolidated Financial Statements under the section Issues arising from the entry into force of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 as at 1 January 2023.
The most relevant change in IFRS 17 relates to the valuation of insurance contracts at market value in order to eliminate accounting asymmetries in relation to assets. The standard provides for contracts with similar risks to be grouped and managed together. In the case of Línea Directa, the groupings correspond to the current Motor, Home, Health and Other insurance segment divisions. All of the Company's insurance and reinsurance contracts are measured using the simplified method.
Despite the implementation of this new regulation, the business fundamentals remain unchanged. IFRS-EU 17 & 9 do not affect the strategy and management of the business. The Solvency position is not affected by having its own metrics on both solvency-eligible funds and capital charge.
The cash position and liquidity management are also not affected by the application of the new accounting standards.
The year presented notable challenges, especially in cost management due to the sharp increase in inflation, which fed through to the statement of profit or loss in the cost of claims cost item.
The following table summarises the consolidated statement of profit or loss as at December 2023, showing the various components of profit or loss and their comparison with the previous year.
Revenues from ordinary insurance activities grew by 3.8% to € 960.3 million, thanks to the positive performance of all main lines of business.
The Company has applied prudent underwriting and risk selection measures, with a progressive adaptation of rates to the new inflationary context.
| In thousand euro | 2023 | 2022 | % var. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income from ordinary insurance business | 960,266 | 925,444 | 3.8% |
| Technical profit/(loss) of the insurance activity | (38,225) | 37,130 | -202.9% |
| Net gains/(losses) from investments | 33,992 | 41,845 | -18.8% |
| Credited interest | (4,646) | 425 | n/a |
| Net income from insurance and investments | (8,879) | 79,400 | -111.2% |
| Other income/expenses and non-allocable expenses | 2,332 | 4,160 | -43.9% |
| Profit/(loss) before tax | (6,547) | 83,560 | -107.8% |
| Taxes | 2,157 | (20,436) | -110.6% |
| Profit/(loss) after tax | (4,390) | 63,124 | -107.0% |
The technical profit/(loss) of the insurance business, which measures the difference between revenues and payments for insurance claims and expenses, recorded a loss of € 38.2 million. This result is a consequence of inflationary pressures passed on to the cost of claims, heavily impacted by the sharp increase in repair and replacement costs, higher injury expenses and higher hospital charges.
Net investment income amounted to € 34.0 million and includes the following items:
The financial result decreased by 18.8% compared to the previous year due to the following nonrecurring items recorded in 2022:
Excluding the effect of the above-mentioned items and that of the change in the market value of investment funds in 2023 amounting to € 1.9 million, the financial result actually increased by 19.8% in 2023. This increase is due to reinvestment at higher rates in the fixed income portfolio, the remuneration of deposits, and the financial income from the hedging swap.
Interest credited reflects the reversal of the discounting effect of the previous year on the provision for claims incurred. This reversal is recorded as an expense of € 4.6 million in the year. This heading is presented separately from the financial result for clarity.
contributed € 2.3 million to the year, decreasing in 43.9% from 2022. This heading includes commissions on the redirection of potential customers to other entities and income from auxiliary assistance and repair services to third parties. Expenses include per diems and remuneration of the Board of Directors, donations to Línea Directa Foundation and other non-allocable training and research expenses. The decrease in this heading in 2023 is due to the reduction in the business of auxiliary third-party assistance services.
As a result, profit/(loss) after taxation shows a loss of € 4.4 million in 2023 compared to a profit of € 63.1 million last year.
During the year, the Company implemented a set of underwriting and risk selection measures, activated levers in claims management and accelerated its digital transformation and efficiency improvements. These measures have made it possible to outline a path back to profit already in the second half of 2023.
The non-life combined ratio is a key management ratio that measures the ratio of insurance servicing costs (claims incurred and other expenses attributable to insurance servicing) in relation revenues, net of reinsurance. The combined ratio stood at 104.1% at the end of 2023, up 8.2 percentage points from 2022. Its performance was asymmetric in its two main headings:
| Combined ratio | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | p.p. var. | |
| Motor | 104.5% | 95.0% | 9.5 p.p. |
| Home | 95.8% | 94.2% | 1.6 p.p. |
| Health | 158.2% | 154.2% | 4.0 p.p. |
| Other | 69.2% | 66.9% | 2.3 p.p. |
| Total | 104.1% | 95.9% | 8.2 p.p. |
Claims incurred in Motor and Home recorded increases while Health experienced a notable improvement thanks to a reduction in claims frequency.
In the Motor segment, margins were strongly affected by the robust inflation in costs that started in 2022 and continued throughout 2023. The personal vehicle repair and maintenance index closed the year with a 6.9% increase. The injury rate was revalued by 8.5% in 2023, in addition to the 4.1% in 2022 and the revision of the actuarial tables. Claims frequency in Motor, conversely, performed favourably except in the own-damage area, where frequency increased notably.
Home insurance in 2023 was marked by a greater weight of claims arising from atmospheric phenomena, which added € 7.2 million to the cost of claims (€ 2.1 million in 2022).
Meanwhile, expenses saw an extraordinary performance that is part of a strategy of strict cost containment and greater efficiency in the retention of policies. The search for efficiency and digitalisation remains the roadmap for the continuous improvement of the Company's management ratios. In particular, administration costs were reduced by 6.7% in 2023.
Below is a detailed summary of changes in the statement of profit or loss by business segment:
The Motor segment saw a 3.3% increase in insurance revenues (net of reinsurance) to reach € 777.6 million, driven by the progressive adaptation of rates to the inflationary context. The number of customers declined by 126 thousand as a result of the risk selection measures carried out during the year. In line with the sector as a whole, (see
Development of the Spanish insurance market, business performance and management ratios) claims incurred in the year were strongly affected by the inflationary situation.
On a much more positive note, expenditure items were kept on a tight leash, growing overall well below revenue figures.
As a result, technical profit/(loss) for the year saw a loss of € 34.9 million, equivalent to a combined ratio of 104.5%.
| In thousand euro | 2023 | 2022 | % var. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income from ordinary insurance activities, net of reinsurance | 777,635 | 753,113 | 3.3% |
| Claims incurred, net of reinsurance | (652,866) | (558,716) | 16.9% |
| Net operating expenses | (159,676) | (156,735) | 1.9% |
| Technical profit/(loss) | (34,907) | 37,662 | -192.7% |
| Combined ratio | 104.5% | 95.0% | 9.5 p.p. |
| Customers (thousands) | 2,471,102 | 2,597,196 | (126,094) |
The Home segment saw a 9.4% increase in insurance revenues (net of reinsurance) to reach € 142.0 million.
As has been the case in the Motor segment, the number of policyholders suffered in 2023, affected by the moderate* tightening of underwriting for some profiles. The number of customers decreased by 26 thousand or 3.4% to 726,654 customers.
| In thousand euro | 2023 | 2022 | % var. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income from ordinary insurance activities, net of reinsurance | 141,956 | 129,800 | 9.4% |
| Claims incurred, net of reinsurance | (94,121) | (80,002) | 17.6% |
| Net operating expenses | (41,833) | (42,224) | -0.9% |
| Technical profit/(loss) | 6,002 | 7,574 | -20.8 % |
| Combined ratio | 95.8% | 94.2% | 1.6 p.p. |
| Customers (thousands) | 726,654 | 752,170 | (25,516) |
The technical result reflects the excellent development and containment of operating expenses.
Claims frequency, however, was affected by the heavy storms in Spain in the second half of the year, contributing € 7.2 million to claims incurred for the year (€ 2.1 million in 2022).
The Home segment achieved a strong technical result of € 6.0 million and a combined ratio of 95.8%.
Revenues from the Health segment, net of reinsurance, registered a very positive growth of 5.2% to € 16.4 million.
The number of customers increased by 7.1% to 117,345.
| In thousand euro | 2023 | 2022 | % var. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income from ordinary insurance activities, net of reinsurance |
16,413 | 15,601 | 5.2% |
| Claims incurred, net of reinsurance | (13,299) | (14,494) | -8.2% |
| Net operating expenses | (12,672) | (9,565) | 32.5% |
| Technical profit/(loss) | (9,558) | (8,458) | 13.0% |
| Combined ratio | 158.2% | 154.2% | 4.0 p.p. |
| Customers (thousands) | 117,354 | 109,576 | 7,778 |
In this business segment, the Company has proportional reinsurance in which it cedes 50% of the premium and claims.
Costs from claims incurred fell by 8.2%, mainly as a result of a lower frequency in claims, reflecting the continuous improvement in risk selection and underwriting.
Operating expenses, net of reinsurance, reflect the absence of proportional reinsurance commissions, which are longer received as of January 2023. Excluding this item (€ 4.2 million in 2022), operating expenses would have decreased by 7.8%.
The Other insurance businesses segment mainly includes the travel insurance business for Bankinter cardholders and Bankinter Consumer Finance under ten group policies, the Vivaz Safe&Go insurance product launched in September 2021 as the first pay-as-you-go insurance for users of personal mobility vehicles, and a discontinued payment protection insurance policy.
As of 31 December 2023, revenues from this segment amounted to € 773 thousand, down 27.4% as a result of a lower travel insurance business from Bankinter cardholders. This segment, while modest in volume, delivers strong profitability, as evidenced by a combined ratio of 69.2%.
| In thousand euro | 2023 | 2022 | % var. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income from ordinary insurance activities, net of reinsurance | 773 | 1,065 | -27.4% |
| Claims incurred, net of reinsurance | (476) | (647) | -26.4% |
| Net operating expenses | (59) | (66) | -10.6% |
| Technical profit/(loss) | 238 | 352 | -32.4% |
| Combined ratio | 69.2% | 66.9% | 2.3 p.p. |
| Customers (thousands) | 3,494 | 4,034 | (540) |
The Company's balance sheet at 31 December 2023 is as follows:
| Assets | 2023 | 2022 | % var. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 41,746 | 51,661 | -19.2% |
| Financial assets through changes in P&L | 53,998 | 48,818 | 10.6% |
| Equity instruments | 53,998 | 48,818 | 10.6% |
| Financial assets through changes in equity | 823,345 | 690,846 | 19.2% |
| Equity instruments | 63,524 | 72,068 | -11.9% |
| Debt securities | 759,821 | 618,778 | 22.8% |
| Assets at amortised cost | 15,456 | 22,373 | -30.9% |
| Hedging derivatives | 5,909 | 7,808 | -24.3% |
| Assets under reinsurance contracts | 31,939 | 21,957 | 45.5% |
| Property, plant and equipment and investment property | 101,600 | 110,043 | -7.7% |
| Property, plant and equipment | 43,077 | 45,368 | -5.0% |
| Investment property | 58,523 | 64,676 | -9.5% |
| Intangible assets | 29,188 | 14,482 | 101.5% |
| Other assets | 22,141 | 34,438 | -35.7% |
| Total assets | 1,125,322 | 1,002,426 | 12.3% |
| In thousand euro | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Liabilities and equity | 2023 | 2022 | % var. |
| Liabilities at amortised cost | 65,313 | 59,288 | 10.2% |
| Hedging derivatives | — | — | - |
| Liabilities under insurance contracts | 715,311 | 610,282 | 17.2% |
| Liabilities for remaining coverage |
339,352 | 325,056 | 4.4% |
| Liabilities for incurred claims |
375,959 | 285,225 | 31.8% |
| Non-technical provisions | 375 | 780 | -51.9% |
| Other liabilities | 31,288 | 31,745 | -1.4% |
| Total liabilities | 812,287 | 702,095 | 15.7% |
| Equity | 330,087 | 324,243 | 1.8% |
| Valuation adjustments | (17,052) | (23,912) | -28.7% |
| Financial assets measured at FVTOCI | (18,226) | (29,856) | -39.0% |
| OCI insurance contracts | 1,689 | 6,241 | -72.9% |
| OCI reinsurance contracts | (515) | (297) | 73.4% |
| Total equity | 313,035 | 300,331 | 4.2% |
| Total liabilities and equity | 1,125,322 | 1,002,426 | 12.3% |
The most relevant headings and changes include:
At year-end 2023, the investment portfolio amounted to € 977.6 million and is distributed as follows:
| In thousand euro | 2023 | 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & equivalents | 41,746 | 4.3% | 51,661 | 6.0% | |
| Fixed income | 759,821 | 77.7% | 618,778 | 72.3% | |
| Fixed income – government | 380,665 | 38.9% | 356,496 | 41.6% | |
| Spain | 158,454 | 16.2% | 168,561 | 19.7% | |
| Italy | 137,437 | 14.1% | 132,418 | 15.5% | |
| Portugal | 14,779 | 1.5% | 44,593 | 5.2% | |
| United States | 997 | 0.1% | 989 | 0.1% | |
| Rest | 68,998 | 7.1% | 9,935 | 1.2% | |
| Fixed income – corporate | 379,156 | 38.8% | 262,282 | 30.6% | |
| Spain | 189,240 | 19.4% | 132,278 | 15.5% | |
| Rest of Europe |
118,929 | 12.2% | 89,057 | 10.4% | |
| United Kingdom | 22,956 | 2.3% | 13,527 | 1.6% | |
| Rest of the world |
48,031 | 4.9% | 27,420 | 3.2% | |
| Shares | 63,524 | 6.5% | 72,074 | 8.4% | |
| of which SOCIMIs (Spanish REITs) |
29,532 | 3.0% | 30,340 | 3.5% | |
| Investment funds | 53,998 | 5.5% | 48,812 | 5.7% | |
| Property investments | 58,523 | 6.0% | 64,676 | 7.6% | |
| Total | 977,612 | 100.0% | 856,001 | 100.0% |
The credit rating of fixed income investments is as follows. Of the total, 98% has a rating of BBB or higher.
The average maturity of the fixed income portfolio is 3.13 years.
| Fixed income | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| AAA | 55,512 | 13,304 |
| AA | 55,624 | 11,264 |
| A | 324,000 | 271,885 |
| BBB | 305,885 | 301,197 |
| Lower than BBB | 12,740 | 10,359 |
| No rating | 6,060 | 10,769 |
| Total | 759,821 | 618,778 |
In thousand euro
The equity portfolio is composed of the following:
| Shares | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| Real estate | 45,073 | 46,527 |
| of which SOCIMIs (Spanish REITs) |
29,532 | 30,340 |
| Financial | 4,973 | 5,355 |
| Industrial | 2,592 | 6,466 |
| Consumer - non-cyclical | 2,560 | 3,350 |
| Technology | 2,108 | 3,084 |
| Consumer - cyclical | 1,229 | 2,223 |
| Telecommunications | 1,638 | 2,716 |
| Utilities | 2,936 | 1,833 |
| Basic materials | 415 | 520 |
| Total | 63,524 | 72,074 |
In thousand euro
Investment property comprises two properties, with an occupancy ratio of 100%. The Company also has four buildings for its own use and a parking. Off-balance sheet capital gains on investment property and properties for own use amounted to € 30.7 million before tax.
Consolidated equity amounted to € 313.0 million. The book value per share amounted to € 0.29 at 31 December 2023 (€ 0.28 at 31 December 2022). Changes in net equity include:
Return on equity (ROE), represented by the ratio of profit after tax to average equity, came to -1.4% at the end of 2023 (17.8% at December 2022). The
decrease is due to the loss recorded in 2023.
Línea Directa Aseguradora's Solvency II ratio stood at 180.0% in 2023 , compared with 187.8% in December 2022.
Eligible own funds amounted to € 358.0 million, of which 100% is unrestricted Tier 1 capital of the highest quality. The solvency capital requirement reached € 198.9 million.
The ratio remains strong and stable, supported by strict investment policies and prudent capital management.
The solvency ratio excludes the subsidiaries of Línea Directa Aseguradora, as their corporate objects are ancillary insurance services almost all of which are provided to the parent company. As they are not insurers or reinsurers, there is no obligation to submit solvency reports at Group level.
The following table shows the solvency requirements classified in their different modules and variation compared with the previous year:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Market SCR | 91,493 | 91,899 |
| Counterparty SCR | 6,076 | 7,027 |
| Health SCR | 3,499 | 3,142 |
| Non-life SCR | 192,387 172,651 | |
| BSCR | 236,330 218,947 | |
| Operational SCR | 28,812 | 27,795 |
| Deferred tax adjustment | (66,286) | (61,686) |
| SCR | 198,857 185,057 | |
| Own funds Solvency II | 358,002 347,531 | |
| In thousand euro |
| Solvency II ratio | 180.0% | 187.8% | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The change in eligible own funds for solvency |
purposes from December 2022 through to the end of 2023 is largely a result of:
– The loss reported at the Parent, Línea Directa Aseguradora;
The sensitivity of the solvency ratio to the impact of various variables is shown below:
| Ratio SII | var. (p.p.) | |
|---|---|---|
| Interest rates +100 bp | 167.0% | (13.0) |
| Interest rates +100 bp | 189.3% | +9.3 |
| Credit spread +100 bp | 176.3% | (3.7) |
| Credit spread -100 bp | 184.0% | +4.0 |
| Equities +10% | 180.9% | +0.9 |
| Equities -10% | 177.5% | (2.5) |
| Equities +30% | 187.0% | +7.0 |
| Equities -30% | 172.2% | (7.9) |
| Property +10% | 183.2% | +3.2 |
| Property -10% | 176.8% | (3.2) |
| Symmetric adjustment +10 | 176.5% | (3.5) |
| Symmetric adjustment -10 | 184.6% | +4.6 |
| Actual | 180.0% | - |
|---|---|---|
The Solvency II Ratio is a risk indicator that is closely monitored and tracked by the Company's Board of Directors when implementing its capital management policy (setting a dividend policy for shareholders, making decisions on investment policy, etc.) and in relation to the commercial strategy (launching new products or lines of business, acquiring risk mitigators, etc.).
Because of its activity, the Línea Directa Group is exposed to a series of risks and conditioning factors that may affect its reputation, objectives and strategy. To ensure that these risks are properly identified, measured, managed and controlled, the company has a series of principles of action and procedures that are systematically applied to all Group companies.
These principles are governed by integration, independence, comprehensive management, transparency and review and continuous improvement in risk management, all under the values and standards of conduct reflected in the Code of Ethics and the Regulatory Compliance Policy.
In 2022, as a result of the reorganisation of the company, a new Corporate Risks area was created, which integrates all the functions that already existed (Risk Management and Internal Control Unit, the Actuarial Function, Regulatory Compliance, Internal Control of Financial Information and Data Quality), always with the aim of providing more effective and efficient management with a more global vision. The mission of the area is to build a global risk map of the company and optimise the control environment in order to ensure the correct assessment and identification of threats and their integration into forecasts and decision-making.
Cybersecurity risk is the risk arising from technology that can affect data, confidentiality, misuse of information and system outages that can affect business, among other things.
The Company's Security Policy is the reference framework for ensuring the sound definition, management, administration and implementation of the security measures and procedures needed to achieve a suitable level of protection for the criticality of the Group's physical and information assets.
The Company has developed its Business Continuity Policy, the preparation and monitoring of which is the responsibility of the Group's Corporate Security area, in order to guarantee the continuity of business operations in the event of incidents affecting the normal operation of the Group's processes, as well as to comply with Article 41.4 of Directive 2007/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25
November 2009 (Solvency II) and the regulations it rolls out, according to which insurance companies must guarantee the continuity and regularity in the execution of their activities.
In response to the current digital environment and the growing threat of cyber-attacks, the Company has a powerful cybersecurity strategy in place aimed at protecting the Company's processes and operations from this threat. This strategy includes the implementation, assessment and improvement of mechanisms to prevent, detect and respond to cyber-attacks on the Group's systems and networks, together with awareness-raising actions and training for all employees in cybersecurity.
The Group views credit risk as the threat of possible loss or adverse change in financial conditions resulting from fluctuations in the solvency or creditworthiness of issuers of securities, counterparties and any debtors to which the Group is exposed.
Given the nature of the Group's activities, its exposure to credit risk arises from the following factors:
The counterparties with which the Group acquires or may acquire significant positions must invariably undergo a prior scoring process. These counterparties include companies that provide insurance for large vehicle fleets and, in particular, reinsurance companies. For the latter, a minimum credit rating of "A-" is required as a prerequisite for inclusion within the reinsurance programme. Exceptions to this solvency threshold, together with the reinsurance table for each year, are expressly approved by the Board of Directors.
Credit risk for motor policies is limited because in the event of non-payment by the policyholder, the Company cancels the policy within a maximum term of 90 days.
Exposure to credit risk is mitigated through a policy based on the prudent selection of issuers of securities and counterparties based on their solvency ratio.
For investments in financial assets held by the Group in 2023 and 2022, no coupon defaults occurred, and the Group regularly monitors its exposure to all of its investments. 98% of the fixed income portfolio (€ 741 million) is rated BBB or higher. 1.7% are rated below BBB and 0.8% (€ 6.1 million) of the Group's bonds and debentures are not rated at all.
The Group treats liquidity risk as the potential temporary inability to honour its payment obligations within the agreed timeframes, due to such obligations maturing before receivables from customers fall due or before financial investments reach maturity. The Company generates daily liquidity from premium income.
The Group carries out prudent liquidity risk management and is committed at all times to having sufficient liquidity to be able to honour its payments to suppliers, policyholders and counterparties in due course. Consequently, cash management is always carried out with the utmost prudence, avoiding at all times any possible overdraft or overlimit situation. Therefore, forecasts are systematically drawn up of expected cash generation and cash requirements, which enable the Group's liquidity position to be determined and monitored on an ongoing basis.
The Company views market risk as the risk of loss or of adverse change in its financial situation, resulting directly or indirectly from fluctuations in the level and in the volatility of market prices of assets, liabilities and financial instruments.
The level of assumable risk for the financial investments undertaken by the Group is explained in the Investment Guidelines approved by the Board of Directors. This document describes the types of permitted assets for investment purposes, along with the maximum proportion of these assets within the portfolio, and authorises the Group's Investment Committee to undertake investments.
The Investment Committee, which meets on a monthly basis, is responsible for analysing the portfolio's performance, approving new lines of investment, verifying compliance with the Investment Guidelines and keeping the Board of Directors regularly informed.
Since the beginning of 2022, the impact of the war in Ukraine, rising interest rates and higher inflation have caused the investments held by the group (and recognised against equity) to record losses, although these have been significantly reduced during 2023. Although the Company maintains a prudent investment strategy from the point of view of financial instruments, there are risks associated with the capital markets such as interest rate and equity market fluctuations.
Insurance business risk focuses on Non-life and Health underwriting risk, comprising mainly premium sub-risk (premium adequacy risk) and reserve subrisk (insurance liability adequacy risk) for the Motor, Home, Health and Other insurance business segments. These risks are managed differently for each business line. Underwriting and health risks also include catastrophe risk and downside risk, with a lower impact than premium and reserve risks.
The Group analyses inherent insurance-related risks for each line of business, both in terms of premiums and reserves, depending on the unique characteristics of each segment.
In the Motor and Home segments, the technical rules and standards are constantly changing and underwriting is adapted accordingly through automatic and preventive mechanisms through which the various products are analysed in order to determine the sufficiency of premiums and insurance liabilities. Policy performance and returns are also monitored to analyse possible deviations.
The Motor segment has a longer duration between the opening and closing of claims than the Home segment, mainly due to the civil liability guarantee, which lasts longer than the other guarantees. The Health segment is heavily influenced by seasonality, with higher levels of policy renewal at the beginning of the year.
The Group relies on reinsurance as a primary tool for mitigating the premium, reserve and catastrophe sub-risks. Reinsurance is itself part of the counterparty risk due to the risk of default of the amounts recoverable from the reinsurance companies.
At 31 December 2023, the Company has a foreign currency position of
€ 23,184 thousand (31 December 2022: € 23,121 thousand). They relate to direct investments in financial instruments quoted in those currencies and there is no currency hedging whatsoever. There is no significant exposure to any foreign currency.
The Group views reputational risk as the potential loss of customers, reduction in revenues or legal proceedings that the Group may incur due to loss of reputation, bad image or negative publicity with stakeholders.
The stakeholders of Línea Directa Aseguradora —at whom it targets its corporate reputation actions and for whom the impact of reputational risk is included in the risk management system— are customers, employees, suppliers, public institutions, shareholders, society, the community, consumers, the press and media and the wider industry.
The Group attaches great importance to reputational risk management and therefore includes reputational risk management within the organisation's overall risk management system and has specific units in place to perform this function.
The increase in regulations and standards has forced the company to adapt its processes and systems to the new legal requirements and to strengthen the most affected teams. In this regard, Línea Directa has developed a bulletin of regulatory and legal changes that includes regulatory projects, relevant criteria issued by the main supervisors as well as other news of scope that may affect or be of interest to the company. Information is also provided on the possible impact these regulatory measures could have on the company, and awareness programmes are held for the entire organisation on regulations and risks, including the implementation of actions to ensure that the areas incorporate these changes into their processes and operations.
The governing bodies receive information quarterly on the key risks facing the company and the capital resources available to manage them, as well as on compliance with the limits set out in the risk appetite.
The Corporate Risk department, together with the Group's other divisions, periodically analyses the factors that could impact the business if they were to occur, including ESG factors. Based on this analysis, an assessment of the company's main risks is conducted, and the corresponding prevention and mitigation measures are identified in order to obtain an assessment of the residual risk.
The Group has established the management model, processes and methodology for assessing ESG risks. The ESG risk management model is a qualitative assessment with KPIs that help to identify risks that could be considered as more immediate threats and regular monitoring to help ensure the exchange of information between the areas responsible and the Group's Risk department.
The Group's ESG risk map shows the risks to which it is exposed, each of them linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other reporting frameworks (GRI or Spanish Law 11/2018, on non-financial information).
Although the Group does not operate in any critical sector in terms of climate change, it has specific policies and measures that allow us to manage resource consumption efficiently with the aim of minimising the impact on the environment.
The Group also has protocols and concrete measures in place to unlock the full potential of its employees by fostering diversity and inclusion, offering the best solutions to maintain employability and promoting a safe working environment and employee health.
The 5th Sustainability Plan runs from 2023 to 2025 and is aligned with the United Nations sustainable development strategy and is articulated through the ESG dimensions. The plan consists of 6 objectives, 15 strategic lines of action and a total of 87 actions.
The Group defines operational risk as the potential loss due to inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or due to external events.
The Group considers losses caused by Operational Risks to be those such as economic losses, reputational damage, legal breaches, technological or security failures or degradation of business processes or impact on customers or employees.
The Group's operational risk management system is structured as a cyclical process of continuous improvement consisting of the following phases (Identification, Assessment/Measurement, Mitigation and Monitoring and Control).
The "Risk Management Model" section of the Nonfinancial Statement provides further information on the principles of action and the main roles and responsibilities of the governing bodies and parties involved in the risk control and management process.
The outlook for the coming quarters is of a gentle and gradual acceleration in economic activity within Spain, driven by a gradual improvement in the European and global context, the recovery of confidence and, looking further ahead to 2025– 2026, less of an macroeconomic impact from the ongoing tightening of monetary policy.
In any case, GDP growth will be significantly lower than in 2023, as pre-pandemic levels of activity have already been exceeded.
Moreover, GDP growth has been slightly downgraded by the Bank of Spain in 2024 and 2025, owing, among other factors, to a less favourable outlook for future consumption developments.
Headline inflation is expected to remain on a slightly rising path in early 2024 and to resume a declining path from the second part of the year onwards. This outlook is largely determined by the expected trend in energy prices moving forward and is conditional (in an upward sense) on the authorities lifting the main measures in place to mitigate the effects of the inflationary upturn. Meanwhile, core inflation is expected to gradually retreat, given the likely decline in energy and food commodity prices and the downward trend in producer prices.
In the insurance context, the cost of claims in the Motor business is expected to be somewhat lower in 2024, albeit still high. The injury scale has been adjusted to 3.8% and rising repair costs are now beginning to slow.
This year, Linea Directa will continue its transformation into a multi-product, customer-centric, more commercially capable, digital and efficient company. These actions, coupled with the positive market momentum, should increase revenue growth across the various segments in which the Company operates.
The actions undertaken in 2023 and the technical measures adopted to reduce the impact of inflation and to reverse the trend in the claims ratio will lead to steady improvements.
Last but not least, efficiency and productivity will be key features of our roadmap as always, as we work to further improve our management ratios. Improved efficiency will allow us to grow and become more agile, while deploying our strategy with a greater impact, improving our costs structure, and offering better products at more competitive prices.
There have been no events after the end of the accounting period that may affect the annual accounts or otherwise be of interest to users of the financial statements.
Línea Directa Aseguradora operates in an industry that is not critical with respect to climate change. Moreover, it operates under a direct business model, without a network of offices throughout the country, which makes it a naturally more environmentally efficient company than other competitors in the sector.
The company is, however, aware that it operates in a key segment in the transition to a low-carbon economy, namely motor transport. With an ageing vehicle fleet and a more restrictive regulatory horizon, Línea Directa is positioning itself with a sustainable business strategy in order to meet the needs of stakeholders in the face of the uncertainties that arise in this regard. The company's activity combines the responsible management of its consumption and the launch of new products for new, less polluting forms of mobility. In addition, the company continues to make progress in the responsible management of its value chain and in the inclusion of ESG criteria in its investment portfolio.
In 2023, the company approved its 5th Sustainability Plan for the 2023-2025 period. The plan has the fight against climate change and decarbonisation among its main aims. As proof of Línea Directa's commitment to these aspects, the incentives of the CEO and the management team have been linked to specific actions defined in the Sustainability Plan, such as, for example, the publication of the first analysis of risks and opportunities in the face of climate change or the measurement of the Scope 3 carbon footprint.
In this regard, the Company's adherence to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures is essential within its strategy towards climate change. With this commitment, it undertakes to incorporate and report on governance, strategy, risk and opportunity management and climate change metrics and goals. In early 2024, the first report on risks and opportunities will be approved and published following the recommendations of the TCFD.
Climate change is integrated into the Company through the Sustainability Plan, approved by the Board of Directors and monitored by the working groups that make up its governance structure, as well as through the policies that form the basis for progress in sustainability and climate change in the Company, and through its adherence to the initiatives of national and international organisations that demonstrate its commitment to the fight against climate change.
There are members of the management team in particular who have specific responsibilities in the fight against climate change: the People, Communication and Sustainability department and the Corporate Risk department.
Similarly, the Management committee, the Standing Risk committee and the Sustainability committee, deal with climate change issues to a greater extent than the departments above.
The Sustainability committee, made up of the Head of People, Communication and Sustainability, the General Secretary, the Head of Finance, the Head of Marketing and the Head of Services and Benefits, which meets at least three times a year, monitors aspects related to climate change and, in particular, has approved the first TCFD report published by Línea Directa in 2024.
The Company also runs a Sustainability Working Group, in which the areas of External Communication and Sustainability, Purchasing, Investor Relations, Corporate Governance, Space Management, Marketing and New Products, Risks, Services and Benefits, Quality, People and Internal Communication and Social Action are represented, and which proposes to the Sustainability committee the actions to be included in the Sustainability Plan and allows for regular, transversal and detailed monitoring of the status of the actions underway in said Plan.
The Company has thus implemented a structure, policy and actions that will serve to fight climate change, and which places it on the road to adapting to the new regulatory requirements that aim to achieve zero net emissions in the economy by 2050, both in its role as an insurer and in its role as an institutional investor.
Línea Directa recognises climate change as one of the most critical threats to the stability of the world's economic, social and geopolitical systems. For this reason, the company has joined the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the initiative set up by the Financial Stability Board. The Company thus commits to incorporating the task force's climate-related financial disclosure recommendations.
In 2023, the company identified the impacts, risks and opportunities arising from climate change and established a governance procedure, strategy and associated metrics. In doing so, it has followed the TCFD Dissemination Recommendations Guide and aims to have a report approved and published in 2024.
Such report would describe the oversight and role of the company's Board of Directors, Board committees, Steering committees and Sustainability committees in
managing climate risks and opportunities.
In addition, short-, medium- and long-term time horizons have been defined in which the identified risks and opportunities are set out. The impacts on business, strategy and financial planning are also set out, and resilience measures are described for two scenarios, one that exceeds 2°C and leads to an increase in the intensity and frequency of weather events, and the other in which a transition is made by keeping the temperature below 2°C in the long term.
The document will include a description of the process of identifying and assessing climate risks, managing them and integrating them into the company's risk map, as well as metrics related to risk and opportunities, setting targets in this regard. The document will also contain the calculation of emissions generated by the activity according to the GHG Protocol for Scopes 1, 2 and 3.
Línea Directa is committed to reporting on governance, strategy, risk and opportunity management and publishing metrics and targets regarding to climate change over the next years. To this end, the company has designed a roadmap to analyse the climate risks and opportunities, both physical and transitional, identified in the short, medium and long term, affecting both its operations and its value chain.
Línea Directa Group has been calculating its carbon footprint for over 12 years, and makes significant efforts year after year to improve the accuracy of its calculation and progressively reduce the sources of generation of greenhouse gas emissions included in its carbon footprint.
In previous years, calculations covered the following sources of emissions: Direct (fossil fuel consumption), Indirect (electricity consumption) and Induced (including travel, business trips, paper and water consumption).
In 2023, Línea Directa Group deepened the calculation of indirect emissions generated by the Company's own activity, in line with the provisions of the GHG Protocol for the calculation of Scope 3; as well as following the indications of the Accounting and Reporting Standard of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
Línea Directa's Scope 3 is particularly relevant because it represents 99% of the group's emissions. The most significant emissions derive from purchases of products and services from suppliers (Category 1) and financed emissions (Category 15), i.e. from financial investments, in the Group's role as institutional investor.
Línea Directa Aseguradora has verified its 2022 carbon footprint created by all its emissions sources, including the three scopes for the first time, through an audit carried out by an independent third party, based on the GHG Protocol.
In addition, Línea Directa Asistencia annually prepares a calculation of the greenhouse gases emitted in the activity it provides on the road. The Subsidiary calculates the kilometres travelled annually by towing services, by rental vehicles and taxis provided to customers during the repair of their vehicle, by the verification services provided by surveyors, and by the collection and delivery services of replacement vehicles to customers. A total of 6,947 tonnes of CO2 were recorded in 2023, 4% less than in 2022.
The Company has again registered its carbon footprint with the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge in 2023, through the Spanish Climate Change Office (OECC). The Company also plans to offset Scopes 1 and 2 of its carbon footprint through absorption projects of different kinds.
Línea Directa has repeatedly set short-term targets in response to its roadmap for the decarbonisation of its activities. Its current Sustainability Plan sets a 5% annual reduction in Línea Directa Aseguradora's energy consumption, setting a similar reduction in the Group's Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon footprints. This objective has been largely achieved, thanks to the measures adopted in 2023. The group has also set a first-time target of a reduction of 5% of Scope 3 emissions between 2022 and 2023.
The Sustainability Plan also includes the definition of a science-based emissions reduction target, following the recommendations of the SBTi, which will establish the decarbonisation roadmap for the Company both in its role as insurer and institutional investor.
In recent years, the Línea Directa Group has developed a set of actions that promote the circular economy, which is one of the main global challenges. This plan is based on three main pillars:
• The project, launched in 2016, aims to reduce paper consumption through the implementation of digital procedures. Customers can have all documents available digitally through the "Digital Policy", which is sent to the policyholder when the policy is taken out. Other measures that have helped to raise awareness among employees to save paper is the extension of the use of electronic signatures, present both in documentbased relations with customers and in contracts with suppliers and employees, allowing each contract to have a specific digital file that reduces the need for paper.
These three sets action, together with the technological changes implemented, have helped to gradually develop a cultural change in the Group, directly impacting environmental performance, in general, and waste management, in particular.
In the case of the CAR Madrid and CAR Barcelona repair shops, the subsidiaries have a strict waste management policy due to their activities and the type of materials they work with.
Biodiversity is not a relevant aspect for Línea Directa Group, as it has the Company holds its headquarters on urban terrains, and does not have an impact on protected natural areas and/or biodiversity.
Línea Directa has carried out the analysis of the recommendations for the disclosure of risks and opportunities related to nature, and has not currently identified issues that may have an impact on this aspect, either positive or negative, nor that are relevant in the short or medium term for the Company.
The business segments Línea Directa operates in as an insurer do not include activities that could have a negative impact on biodiversity or any animal species.
In future years, the Company will evaluate the suitability of such an assessment, especially from the role of institutional investor. However, in order to be able to make a complete diagnosis, the Companies in which the Group is a shareholder need to make public their corresponding analysis of risks and opportunities related to biodiversity in the coming years.
Moreover, the heterogeneity of the Company's current value chain makes it difficult to obtain complete information related to the impacts on nature and, as a consequence, to carry out an exhaustive diagnosis of the risks and opportunities related to it.
The Company's activity combines the responsible management of its consumption and the launch of new products for new, less polluting forms of mobility. In addition, the Company continues to make progress in the responsible management of its value chain and in the inclusion of ESG criteria in its investment portfolio.
Meanwhile, as sign of its commitment to nature and the environment, Línea Directa Group supports the initiative promoted by WWF, "Earth Hour", whose aim is to mobilise individuals, companies and governments to reverse the loss of biodiversity in nature. In particular, the company actively collaborates with the actions promoted by this initiative and makes an annual contribution to it.
In recent years, the European Commission, in the context of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, commissioned a group of technical experts to develop the European Union (EU) strategy for sustainable finance, as part of its commitment to direct capital flows towards sustainable activities.
As a result of this strategy, in December 2021, the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 of 4 June 2021, supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council and setting out the technical eligibility criteria that an activity must meet in order to contribute substantially to the objectives of "Climate Change Mitigation" and "Climate Change Adaptation".
In June 2023, the European Commission has laid out, by means of Delegated Acts, the technical criteria for the other four environmental objectives set, which are: "Water protection", "Circular economy", "Pollution prevention" and "Biodiversity and ecosystems", thus completing its green Taxonomy.
The Taxonomy establishes a set of harmonised criteria to determine in a homogeneous way whether an activity or investment is sustainable by making a substantial contribution to one of the environmental goals set out in the Regulation. The detailed definition of these criteria provides the basis for the development of standards or labels to assess the sustainability of a financial product.
In previous years, Línea Directa Group has been reporting its eligibility percentages for both its business activity, specifically its premiums, and its assets, i.e. its investment portfolio and its property investments. As of this year, the legislation requires the Company to report the percentages of its activity and investments aligned with the Taxonomy.
Línea Directa Aseguradora has assessed both its
2023 activity and investments based on the methodology established by the Taxonomy. In this regard, the following indicators are reported:
Premiums. This indicator measures the proportion and amount of gross premiums written for the nonlife and reinsurance business for activities identified as environmentally sustainable under the Taxonomy.
The company's activity corresponds to the activity "Non-life insurance: insurance against climaterelated risks", corresponding to the contribution to the goal of Climate Change Adaptation.
KPIs related to underwriting activities have been calculated as the share of non-life gross premiums written corresponding to insurance activities that comply with the Taxonomy in relation to Non-Life gross premiums written.
Línea Directa procedures. Línea Directa has drawn up the eligibility and alignment of its premiums in the insurance areas it operates in. In this regard, the European Commission has presented Regulation (EU) 2020/852, which introduces which activities are sustainable from an environmental point of view.
Línea Directa has analysed the key underwriting performance indicator of its non-life insurance and reinsurance companies in accordance with Appendix X of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2178 at the consolidated level, finding no significant risks, as these companies do not operate in areas that are not specific to the insurance activity. Both eligible and ineligible nonlife insurance activities have been taken into account, as well as all subsidiaries in which the Company has a 100% interest.
The underwriting activity KPI shows what proportion of all non-life underwriting activities is composed of activities related to climate change adaptation carried out in accordance with points 10.1 and 10.2 of Appendix II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 on the European Union Climate Taxonomy.
Indicators have been developed to allow the Company to quantify the eligibility of each underwriting, ensuring traceability and the robustness of the data.
Eligibility. Due to recent modifications in the eligibility criteria, and coinciding with the first year of analysis of the Company's degree of alignment, Línea Directa has calculated the premium corresponding to coverages that contribute significantly to the achievement of the objective of adaptation to climate change (included in Appendix II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139, as activities 10.1 and 10.2), precisely because they deal with damages caused by meteorological phenomena of great intensity, not covered by the Insurance Compensation Consortium, both in the Motor and Home branches.
Specifically, in the Motor segment, own damage and windscreen coverages have been looked at in this regard, and the impact on premiums of the claims incurred from events related to meteorological phenomena has been estimated. Estimates have been made using data from the net issued premium of the coverages, drawing up a risk premium and a net issued premium for atmospheric damage.
In the Home segment, the entire premium has been taken from the coverages of atmospheric phenomena and electrical damage, which insure against damages caused by high-intensity meteorological events.
In the Health segment, no specific coverages have been found to directly insure against damages to health resulting from climate change.
Alignment. In calculating alignment, the Technical Selection Criteria (STS) of the activity have been taken into account. For both the Motor and Home segments, the following criteria are met:
relevant to the coverage, including coverage against climate-related risks, informing both of measures beneficial to the customer and of optional coverages that may make their insurance more complete and avoid limited insurance.
Compliance with DNSH. The Company's insurance activity does not come into conflict with any other environmental objective of the Taxonomy. Línea Directa is committed to mitigating climate change, implementing measures that reduce the impact on the environment. It does not insure any activity related to the extraction, transportation, refining and distribution of coal, gas or oil.
The Company's activity does not have a significant impact on water resources, the circular economy, pollution or the objective of protecting biodiversity. The company meets the criteria of the Do Not Signifcant Harm (DNSH).
Social safeguards. Línea Directa meets the minimal social safeguards set out in Articles 3 and 18 of the EU Taxonomy Regulation regarding human rights, corruption, taxation and fair competition. In this sense, a body of policies (Human Rights Policy, Anti-Corruption Policy, Fiscal Policy and its Code of Ethics, among others) determines the Company's corporate position on these matters.
The Company has Human Rights Due Diligence procedures, which affect employees, suppliers, customers, investors and society in order to prevent the violation of fundamental rights.
Línea Directa is also part of the United Nations Global Compact, which promotes the fight against child labour, forced labour and the protection of fundamental rights.
In addition, it has procedures to monitor and establish disciplinary measures in the event of criminal acts and carries out periodic training activities to make all corporate procedures and policies known among its professionals, especially among its senior management.
Línea Directa has not been convicted or sanctioned for human rights violations, corruption or bribery, tax evasion or for not respecting competition laws during the year 2023.
Investments. The proportion in total assets of exposures to activities identified as environmentally sustainable under the Taxonomy.
The indicator has been calculated using the market value of the positions on the balance sheet for each of the categories and on the total assets of Línea Directa Group as of December 31, 2023. All positions held by the Company in the portfolio, except for its stake in TIREA, are assigned a CNAE code.
Línea Directa Group has its own Diversity and Inclusion policy approved by the Board of Directors, setting out the principles with which the Company operates in this area.
In 2023, a Diversity Advisory committee was set up, made up of members of the Management committee and advised by a working group including employees at different levels of responsibility. The objective of the committee, which is led by the People department, is to approve the diversity strategy, as well as to ensure compliance with the established action plan.
During the year, the Company has also carried out different initiatives in order to promote diversity inside and outside the organisation.
Línea Directa has an Equality Plan and an Equality, Inclusion and Non-discrimination Policy approved by its Board of Directors. It also has an equality technical team made up of experts in people management.
The Company also has a Harassment Prevention Protocol, publicly available to all employees, which sets out the principles of action in this area, as well as the procedure for reporting, handling and resolving these situations.
As part of its commitment to equality, nondiscrimination and inclusion, the company is also a signatory to the following codes of conduct, networks of companies, sectors and foundations that promote all the principles set out here, including the United Nations Global Compact, Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), Target Gender Equality (TGE), and Top Employers. The company also has the following certificates and memberships: award given to companies for a "Society free from gender-based violence" promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Gender Equality, UNESPA Good Practice Guide on Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination, collaboration with the Fundación Más Familia (Efr), member of the EWI Sector Network, of the Código Eje&Con, a code of good practises in female talent in organisations and of MásHumano, a network of companies committed to implementing flexible working models. Due to the percentage of representation of women in the Company's senior management and Board of Directors, Línea Directa is also part of the Ibex Gender Equality Index of Spanish Stock Exchanges and Markets (BME)
The Company's chain of command receives annual training in the detection and prevention of genderbased violence, in collaboration with a specialised foundation. There are also two annual awarenessraising campaigns with various activities for the entire workforce, coinciding with 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) and 8 March, International Women's Day.
For years, Línea Directa has been involved in a "School of Empowerment" through the company's volunteer group, where women who have been victims of gender-based violence are trained in how to prepare and conduct job interviews to help them find a foothold in the job market.
Línea Directa Aseguradora is once again among the 50 companies with the best capacity to attract talent in Spain according to the Merco Talent ranking. In the last financial year, the company has moved up two positions, from
45th to 43rd. It has also renewed its Top Employers certification.
Línea Directa's talent attraction strategy aims to attract the best professionals to address the organisation's current and future challenges.
The focus of Línea Directa's employer brand strategy is the projection of an honest and transparent image of its projects and corporate culture. In a communication campaign translating as "make it big, make it Línea Directa", published on Social Networks throughout 2023, employees shared firsthand the projects in which the company is immersed and in which they are protagonists.
The Company has made a commitment to improve the digitalisation of the selection process, the implementation of advanced selection and analysis tools and the promotion of the new channels for attracting young talent created in 2022.
The Talent Attraction team maintains agile, approachable and highly personalised communication with each candidate. In line with this strategy, in 2023 the Company has launched new ways of attracting talent that are agile, efficient, flexible and focused on the candidate, promoting the use of technologies and data,
innovative tools and social networks, which allows us to provide a human and unique experience.
In 2023, the Company also launched "always on" selection processes, allowing a continuous dialogue with candidates on topics that arouse their interest. Throughout this initiative, the information obtained is analysed to draw up a profile of the applicant and find out their motivations for joining Línea Directa. Moreover, the Company's presence in business schools, professional communities, universities, technology platforms, forums and blogs has been further promoted, always with the aim of enriching information and boosting the Company's notoriety in the process of attracting talent.
During 2023, four challenges were laid out in the company's roadmap:
This strategy has been accompanied by a new culture of professional development and personalised training for all the company's employees.
While in 2022 the Company focused on employee motivation through "Conversations on Development" with its managers and promoting self-learning through digital tools and training courses on @prende and LinkedIn Learning, in 2023 different initiatives have been implemented aimed at loyalty and a commitment to internal talent. These include a program to identify critical positions, identify potential talent, and set up accelerated development plans.
In addition, in order to align the strategy and culture of innovation, multidisciplinary innovation groups have been created in the organisation in which people with very diverse profiles and experiences participate.
Finally, in order to reinforce the professional development strategy, new training programmes have been created for team leaders to develop their strategic skills and knowledge of business management.
Línea Directa promotes various programmes to develop leadership capabilities in the chain of command. To this end, new management programs have been imparted to team leaders to align the Company's priorities with their professional development.
In 2023, two training programs were delivered through the Darwin Community: one in Strategic Management, in order to enhance the managerial and strategic skills of middle management, and another in Business Management for the new members of this group, which aims to train them in the main areas of management of the Company, providing them with an overview of the organisation and preparing them for new challenges.
Although one of Línea Directa Group's main objectives in people management is the safety and health of its employees, it believes it is also important to address the broader concept of well-being. To this end, Línea Directa Aseguradora runs a programme specifically based on the principles of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and which follows the recommendations of the European Union on occupational health and safety. The company is also a signatory to the Luxembourg Declaration.
In this context, Línea Directa offers its employees the "Well-being to Be Well" programme, which encompasses actions focused on improving their physical, emotional and financial health.
Among the main measures and initiatives carried out during 2023 in this area, the extension of the employee vacation period by one day starting from 2024 stands out.
In order to measure the well-being of employees and 'take the pulse' of the organisation, a survey aimed at the entire workforce is taken every two years. In the latest one, conducted in 2023, the Company took its methodology a step further to be able to analyse the experience of its employees in a more personalised way, allowing the Group to draw conclusions by employee groups and according to their professional and life cycles at Línea Directa.
The Company has a total compensation platform available in the employee portal where employees can consult all the elements that are part of their remuneration package. The information includes fixed remuneration, variable remuneration linked to objectives and remuneration in kind, such as life and accident insurance, as well as the various social benefits and advantages they are eligible for as employees of Línea Directa, such as a flexible remuneration programmes and discounts on all the Company's products.
Due to the increase in the cost of living as a result of inflation in the last two years, Línea Directa
Aseguradora made a one-off extraordinary payment to all its employees in January 2023, with the exception of the management team, equivalent to 1% of their fixed salary, with a minimum of € 300.
In 2022, Línea Directa launched its first Share Purchase Plan aimed at employees. By joining this plan, employees may allocate part of their salary to the purchase of shares at a 5% discount, also benefitting from the advantages of flexible remuneration. The company has continued this programme during 2023. To this end, two training and advisory sessions were imparted in order to promote the financial education of the staff and ensure that employees understand this initiative before making their investment decision.
Línea Directa Aseguradora defends equal pay for women and men and carries out annual salary reviews with common criteria for both genders. Proof of this is that the total average remuneration of both genders is very similar and the pay gap at the end of 2023 was 3.1%.
In 2023, the Company updated its Occupational Risk Prevention and Well-being Policy, setting out the commitments on which it bases its management of occupational risk prevention, not only through strict compliance with the applicable regulations, but also through its commitment to ensuring the health and safety of the people who provide their services at Línea Directa.
In 2022, Línea Directa Aseguradora launched an organisational and strategic transformation that is key to the company's future. Paying attention to people's need and managing change with care has been vital in turning this process into new professional development opportunities for the people in the organisation.
The People and Communications department has been focused on accompanying employees and the chain of command through this process, working, during 2023, with the business areas to understand and address the specific needs of each team, ensuring a harmonious transition that respects the particularities of each one of them.
Special attention has also been paid to the emotional management of change, ensuring a constant presence of teams from the People department in all the Company's buildings. This physical presence not only facilitates communication and the resolution of doubts, but also underlines the organisation's commitment to being close to its employees during this process of change.
The Company also has set up various direct digital communication channels with employees through which information flows in all directions, thanks to the universally accessible employee channel and the personalised management of the People Care Team.
To this end, and as part of the process of digitalising communications with its employees, the Company launched the 'LiDiA' chatbot in 2022, a virtual assistant anchored in the navigation bar of the corporate intranet and programmed to answer employees' most important questions in conversation. In 2023, a proof-of-concept (PoC) has been launched to integrate this assistant with generative Artificial Intelligence and thus make the user experience more modern, effective and human through natural language.
All employees of Línea Directa Group are subject to the collective bargaining agreement that applies in each workplace of the companies that make up the Group, with several union sections exercising their rights in accordance with the Organic Law on Freedom of Association.
One of the key pillars of Línea Directa Aseguradora's action plan in the field of functional disability integration is the inclusion of employees with a disability certificate.
The company has set up different initiatives to cover this challenge, involving the management of the company's own talent, collaboration with specialist entities and participation in social projects aimed at promoting the employability of this group.
Meanwhile, all the workplaces of Línea Directa Group are accessible. In addition, the company works on communication and awareness about disability, both internally and externally. In 2023, the accessibility of the corporate website has been addressed to ensure universal access for all users.
The criteria adopted to provide greater accessibility to the Línea Directa Aseguradora website are based on the WCAG/WAI guidelines set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is an international consortium that creates recommendations and standards that ensure the use and development of the Internet. The development of the Línea Directa Aseguradora website has therefore been based on compliance with the Accessibility Guidelines for content available on the WCAG 2.1 website of the W3C WAI at its AA level of requirement. A specialised consulting firm has been commissioned to carry out an accessibility audit according to the requirements of WCAG 2.1.
Línea Directa Aseguradora is committed to research, development and innovation and has launched powerful initiatives in this area that the Group puts at the service of the business and its customers through unique insurance products, as well as of society as a whole through the research work carried out by Línea Directa Foundation in favour of road safety.
Since its inception, the Company has had a strong culture of innovation as a basis for the development of insurance solutions and distinctive services that respond to new customer needs, giving it a competitive advantage.
In the last two years, Línea Directa has strengthened its innovation culture and processes. The Company has created the 10X Innovation Program, a corporate project with its own methodology that includes various innovation processes aimed at product differentiation and business growth.
In 2023, several innovation groups have been set up composed of employees identified for their potential talent. These groups aim to detect new areas of business opportunity working through the following phases: exploration, ideation, validation, and finally implementation. The employees involved in the Product Innovation programme have received training videos to learn the basic concepts in innovation methodologies and the creative process: design thinking, for trend analysis; strategic analysis applied to the generation of new business and value proposition setting; lean start-up, to generate a Minimum Viable Product and perform a rapid validation and learning of the prototype; and agile methodologies for the iterative and incremental implementation and development of new products.
This set of innovation methodologies seeks to understand the needs of customers quickly, validate prototypes of products and services, and finally introduce new products to the market in record time.
The Company also has a Product committee led by the Head of Marketing that sets up different strategic, operational and product approval sessions. Employees part of the Innovación 10X programme have been involved in each of these phases.
As a result of this culture and these processes of innovation, which are transversally present throughout the organisation, Línea Directa Aseguradora has been able to continue creating innovative products and services available to policyholders in its Motor, Home and Health segments throughout 2023, launching, for instance, "Car + Home Formula", the first step by an insurer in Spain towards the convergence of policies for the same family unit, and "Squatter free home", a comprehensive coverage against illegal occupation of housing, unique in the market.
Innovation and digital transformation are two key levers in Línea Directa's corporate strategy. Along with the creation of new products that meet the emerging needs of customers, the Company has continued to make progress in the digitalisation of both its internal processes and the policyholder experience, seeking to boost its efficiency and offer a more agile and higher quality service to policyholders.
In this regard, it should be noted that throughout 2023 the Group has relied on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to expand and improve the digital services available to customers through the Company's mobile application and website. Through this stateof-the-art technology, Línea Directa already offers advanced functionalities for verification and registration of claims by users. This has allowed the Company to reduce its operational burden and increase the quality of service. Up to 75% of annual verifications are already carried out from digital images and the success rate in the digital registration of claims has risen to 96%.
The agility and usefulness that the Group's digital services provide means they have achieved a high penetration among the Company's customer base. At the end of 2023, more than 87% of policyholders interact with the Company through its digital channels and the volume of digital interactions exceeds those by telephone by 59%.
The direct contact with customers that its business model allows it means Línea Directa Aseguradora is able to know first-hand the needs of policyholders, which is an extraordinary asset when it comes to promoting quality in all its processes.
Línea Directa Aseguradora monitors its net promoter score (NPS), which estimates the degree to which its customers and users would recommend the Company to others. This system has a measurement scale of 1 to 10 points, and only those policyholders who rate their experience with the company with a score of 9 or 10 are considered "promoters".
Línea Directa Aseguradora's global NPS in 2023 reached 29.16 points, a variation of 17.8 points compared to 2022, a decline caused by the tightening of underwriting in the face of the current market situation of inflation pressure and costs on insurance margins.
One of the main challenges experienced by the Quality area during the past year has been to adapt
the measurement systems to the Company's new multi-product approach. It has been possible to define a set of indicators that, in addition to providing a joint reading of the KPIs, offers the possibility of knowing how a policyholder evaluates the process or service in question.
The year 2023 has also seen important developments in the Customer Experience Scorecard applied to home insurance benefits and has deepened the knowledge and analysis of the best practices in the market, always with the aim of enriching decision-making in the future.
In 2024, work will be done to extend the methodology on service provision to the rest of customer interactions, as well as to the prediction and early detection of alarms on the new perception indicators.
Línea Directa Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to fight road accidents, has become a true benchmark in the field in its ten years of experience. Set up in 2014, the foundation brings together the Company's long experience in the field of road safety and has four lines of action: research, awareness-raising, social action and training.
From the point of view of research, Línea Directa Foundation carries out several studies every year that analyse the most relevant aspects of accidents, always with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of maintaining responsible driving habits. These studies seek to offer a holistic view of the phenomenon of traffic and accidents, providing innovative approaches that help fight against road mortality and injuries. In 2023, the organisation completed and published three of these studies. The first among them, "Life in a second. Distractions and accidents on Spanish roads (2012-2021)", concludes that 1 in 3 fatal accidents in Spain is caused by distractions. The study "Getting there and back. X-ray of traffic accidents on holiday journeys in Spain (2012-2021)" recalls that, with five casualties per day, the summer months are the most dangerous time of the year for road safety, with a death rate 20% higher than the rest of the year. Finally, through the report "Safe Cars for All. Analysis of accidents from a gender perspective (2012-2021)", Línea Directa Foundation highlighted how, due to the lack of adaptation of vehicle safety tests to the female anatomy, women face twice the risk of suffering a serious brain injury and are 50% more likely to have a skull fracture in the event of a frontal impact than men.
The Foundation also runs a start-up acceleration programme, an activity it develops through the Entrepreneurs and Road Safety Award, a contest that finances projects that, due to their special relevance, can contribute to saving lives on the roads. The contest is endowed with a prize of € 20,000 net without carryover or conversion, as well as access to training and mentoring. At a later stage, the winner of the award will also be able to access financing rounds by Bankinter's Foundation for Innovation and IESE Business School.
At year-end 2023, the Company's issued share capital amounted to € 43,536,673.60, comprising 1,088,416,840 fully subscribed and paid-up ordinary registered shares, all of the same class and series and each with a par value of € 0.04.
All outstanding shares carry the same dividend and voting rights and are represented by in book entry form. The shares are listed on the stock exchanges of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao (the Spanish stock exchanges).
The main stock market index to feature the Company's share is the IBEX Medium Cap, which ranks Spanish listed mid-cap companies.
The ISIN code of the Company's share is ES0105546008.
The share closed the 2023 financial year at 0.851 euros per share, a decrease of 17.54% since 2 January, the first day of trading in 2023.
At year-end 2023, a total of eight research houses followed the share, 75% of which recommended "hold" and 25% "sell", with an average target price of € 0.918.

| The Línea Directa Aseguradora share | |
|---|---|
| 2023 | |
| Share price information | |
| Low (€) | 0.786 |
| High (€) | 1.084 |
| End of the period (€) | 0.851 |
| Number of shares | 1,088,416,840 |
| Treasury shares | 377,583 |
| Number of shares outstanding | 1,088,039,257 |
| Nominal value (€) | 0.04 |
| Average daily trading volume (shares) | 607,961 |
| Average daily trading volume (€) | 623,500 |
| Stock market capitalisation (€ million) | 926.242 |
| Ratios |
| Profit per share (€) Book | -0.00 |
|---|---|
| value per share (€) | 0.29 |
| Price/book value (times) PER (times) | 3.0 x |
| RoAE (%) | n.m |
| Dividend yield (%)* | -1.4% |
| — % |
*Dividends charged to the financial year 2023 / share closing price for the year
The Company has not distributed dividends against 2023.
On 29 April 2021, the date of the IPO, a total of 239,678 treasury shares were allotted to the Parent in the exchange for Bankinter shares.
On 12 May 2021, the Board of Directors approved an own-share buyback programme under the authorisation granted at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 18 March 2021 and in accordance with market abuse regulations. This authorisation was duly communicated to the CNMV on the same day.
The Company has made successive acquisitions communicated to the CNMV to complete the sharebased remuneration plan detailed in Note 21. The number of treasury shares acquired by the Parent during 2021 was 795,643 shares at an average price of € 1.57,
representing 0.11% of issued shares.
The Group has also offered its employees two flexible share-based remuneration plans. The first, in November 2022, saw 224,000 shares acquired at an average price of € 0.99, of which 204,676 were delivered. And the second, in November 2023, saw 116,771 shares delivered.
At 31 December 2023, Línea Directa Aseguradora held 377,583 treasury shares, representing 0.035% of capital and amounting to € 321,323. Note 15 includes details on the composition and movement of equity.
At year-end 2023, Cartival held 19.896% of the shares, Bankinter 17.416%, Fernando Masaveu Herrero 5.381%, Norbel Inversiones 5.001%, Lazard Asset Management 3.195%, Brandes Investment Partners 3.002%, Candriam 2.720% and Fidelity International Limited 2.023%.
Línea Directa holds 0.035% in treasury stock.
The following table shows the composition of shareholders as at 31 December 2023:
| Shareholding structure | |
|---|---|
| 2023 | |
| Cartival, S.A. | 19.90% |
| Bankinter, S.A. | 17.42% |
| Fernando Masaveu Herrero | 5.38% |
| Norbel Inversiones, S.L. | 5.00% |
| Lazard Asset Management | 3.20% |
| Brandes Investment Partners, L.P. | 3.00% |
| Candriam | 2.72% |
| Fidelity International Limited | 2.02% |
| Treasury shares | 0.03% |
| Foreign institutional | 14.35% |
| Domestic institutional | 11.84% |
| Retail | 15.14% |
The foreign institutional tranche is led by the United Kingdom and the United States, with the composition as follows:
| Foreign institutional tranche | |
|---|---|
| 2023 | |
| United Kingdom | 40.95% |
| United States | 29.74% |
| Luxembourg | 9.49% |
| France | 4.60% |
| Switzerland | 4.35% |
| Norway | 3.05% |
| Belgium | 2.82% |
| Germany | 2.60% |
| Other | 2.40% |
Following the listing of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., it has been the Company's intention to follow best practices of good governance and the recommendations of the CNMV's Code of Good Governance, thereby strengthening its commitment to transparency, ensuring the full engagement of shareholders and investors and creating of long-term value. To succeed in these tasks, the Company considers it necessary to implement procedures to maintain adequate communication with all of its stakeholders.
In this regard, the Company has a Communication Policy in effect with shareholders, institutional investors and proxy advisors of Línea Directa (available on the website), which also includes the general policy regarding the communication of economic-financial, non-financial and corporate information through the Company's social networks and other communication channels.
In particular, the website for shareholders and investors is regularly updated to include information on CNMV filings, complete financial information, results, presentations, and information on shares.
The Statement of Non-Financial Information for the financial year 2023 has also been made available. With this document, Línea Directa Aseguradora reports on environmental, corporate governance,
human resources, social and human rights issues relevant to the company in the context of its business activities.
In 2023, the Company webcast its published earnings on a quarterly basis, participated in 13 domestic and international conferences and forums, while also keeping daily contact with the investment community and thus bringing the reality of the business closer to shareholders and potential investors.
In accordance with the provisions of Law 18/2022, listed commercial companies are required to publish their average supplier payment period, the monetary amount and number of invoices paid in a period shorter than the legal maximum period, as well as the ratio of those invoices to the total number of invoices and the total monetary amount of payments made to suppliers.
The payments made to suppliers in 2023 and 2022 are as follows. The average payment period to suppliers at the end of 2023 for Línea Directa Aseguradora was 20.80 days. The number of invoices and their monetary value are broken down for the year 2023:
| 2023 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Days | Days | |
| Average supplier payment period | 20.80 | 18.55 |
| Ratio of transactions paid | 20.81 | 18.51 |
| Ratio of transactions outstanding | 20.60 | 20.24 |
| Amount | Amount | |
| (in thousand euro) | (in thousand euro) | |
| Total payments made | 340,996 | 334,881 |
| Total payments outstanding | 13,891 | 7,859 |
| Invoices | Invoices | |
| Invoices paid within the legal limit | 102,744 | 112,931 |
| Percentage of total invoices | 85.86% | 90.58% |
| Total invoices | 119,660 | 124,682 |
| Amount | Amount | |
| (in thousand euro) | (in thousand euro) | |
| Monetary volume within legal limit | 314,136 | 278,227 |
| Percentage of total monetary value of payments to suppliers | 88.52% | 81.18% |
| Total monetary value of invoices | 354,888 | 342,740 |
The legal regulatory framework for financial services provides customers with the appropriate level of protection to ensure confidence in the functioning of the markets. Notably, Order ECO/734/2004, of 11 March, on customer care and ombudsman departments and services of financial institutions, requires insurance undertakings to have a customer care department or service, in order to attend to and resolve complaints and grievances presented by their customers wishing to exercise their legally recognised rights and interests.
The decision shall be reasoned and contain clear conclusions in respect of the request raised in each complaint or claim, based on the applicable contractual terms, rules on transparency and customer expectations, as well as good financial practices and usages.
In 2023, a total of 7,637 incidents were handled (5,809 incidents in 2022), 630 (8.25%) of which qualified as complaints (398 (6.85%) complaints in 2022) and 7,007 (91.75%) as grievances (5,411 (93.15%) grievances in 2022). Of the total, 21,02% related to Policy quoting and management, 66.39% to Accident management and 3.33% to the Roadside assistance service (2022: 20.86%, 69.48% and 3.10%, respectively).
The breakdown by type of case managed by the Group in 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % of total | Number | % of total | |
| Complaints | 630 | 8.25% | 398 | 6.85% |
| Grievances | 7,007 | 91.75% | 5,411 | 93.15% |
| Total cases handled | 7,637 | 100.00% | 5,809 | 100.00% |
The breakdown by department of the cases generated by the Group in 2023 and 2022 is as follows:
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % of total | Number | % of total | |
| Quotations and policy management |
1,605 | 21.02% | 1,212 | 20.86% |
| Accident management | 5,070 | 66.39% | 4,036 | 69.48% |
| Roadside assistance service | 255 | 3.34% | 180 | 3.10% |
| Other | 707 | 9.26% | 381 | 6.56% |
| Total cases handled | 7,637 | 100.00% | 5,809 | 100.00% |
The main issues raised by customers are listed below:
Of the total complaints and grievances received in 2023, 82.06% (82,10% in 2022) have been considered upheld and 39.86% admissible (38.13% in 2022).
In 2023, a total of 488 cases were heard by the Consumer Ombudsman (428 cases in 2022). A decision was handed down against the insured claimants in 56.15% of these cases, which relate to the following main grievances:
The percentage of decisions issued against the policyholders' interests was higher than in the previous year, as in 2023 214 of the 488 decisions issued were favourable to the policyholder, while in 2022 they were 287 of the 428, with percentages of 43.85% and 67.05% and revealing a percentage difference between years of 23.20%.
In his report, the Consumer Ombudsman calls for prompter handling of claims so that, between LINEA DIRECTA and the Consumer Ombudsman, they can be resolved ahead of the deadlines prescribed by applicable law and regulations on consumer affairs, pursuant to Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, of 16 November. It also suggests that the general terms and conditions of the policies, containing their delimitation of risks, exclusions and limitation of liability clauses, should be signed at the same time as the special terms and conditions, whether the product is arranged remotely or via traditional channels.
For the purposes of Article 538 of the Spanish Corporate Enterprises Act, the Management Report includes the Annual Corporate Governance Report (ACGR), Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and the Annual Report on Director Remuneration (ARDR) of Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros, all for the year ended 2023. Both reports are available and can be consulted in full on the website of the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, or CNMV) and on the corporate website.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION
LÍNEA DIRECTA ASEGURADORA S.A.



| LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN | 1762 | PEOPLE AND TALENT ALIGNMENT OF THE ORGANISATION WITH THE STRATEGY |
235 |
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| INTERVIEW With THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | 175 | DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY TALENT ATTRACTION |
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| ABOUT THIS REPORT | 179 | TALENT MANAGEMENT. RE-EVOLUCIONA | |
| LINEA DIRECTA GROUP PURPOSE, MISSION, VISION AND VALUES MILESTONES AND AWARDS KEY FIGURES BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT |
181 | PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING. RECONCILIATION AND DIGITAL DISCONNECTION POLICY CORPORATE REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS PAY GAP HEALTH AND SAFETY EMPLOYEE RELATIONS. DIALOGUE WITH EMPLOYEES. UNION REPRESENTATION. |
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| BUSINESS MODEL SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT |
DISABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY | ||
| SOCIETY | 312 | ||
| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE | 220 | SOCIETY | |
| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM | SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT | ||
| ETHICS AND TRANSPARENCY | LINEA DIRECTA FOUNDATION | ||
| GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS | CORPORATE VOLUNTEERING | ||
| RISK MANAGEMENT MODEL | SUBCONTRACTING AND SUPPLIERS CUSTOMER SERVICES |
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| ENVIRONMENT | 260 | SERVICE QUALITY | |
| Climate Change Governance and Management | |||
| RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE (TCFD) |
APPENDICES | 329 | |
| CARBON FOOTRPINT | DIRECTOR JURISDICTION MATRIX | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS | ||
| BIODIVERSITY | PEOPLE INDICATORS | ||
| ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE (TAXONOMY) | REQUIREMENTS OF LAW 11/2018 GRI CONTENT INDEX |
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The year 2023 has been characterised by great economic instability, and political turbulence, significantly impacting global outlooks and growth. The inflationary process we have experienced over the last three years-caused, among other factors, by the serious geopolitical situatión, the energy crisis and the economic consequences of the European Central Bank, raising interest rates to their highest levels in decades. The decision, which nevertheless seems to be bearing fruit assures, mo activiting prices, has slowed down the euro read businesses, already stuggling with the upward trend in inflation.
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segment (+36.3%), which is highly expossed (+6.8%), and saw the Motor segment consolidate its growth (+6.6%) thanks to the gradual increase in premiums that the sector is experiencing as a response to growing costs and reduced technical margins.
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registrations, a dip which, together continues to weigh on the industry's ultimate recovery. The situation
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legislative uncertainly regarding the future of motorisation. During
2023, leasing saw a 16.3% increase
The Home segment continued to grow at a steady rate (+6.4%), although its future faces some uncertainties: the fall´in home sales, the rise in the cost of financing and the increase in weather-related damage may affect their future margins. Health insurance also continued to grow at a brisk pace (+6.6%), consolidating its
position as a major asset in the Non-life sector, to which it contributes volume, high premiums and diversification.
In this complex and fast-changing context, Línea Directa Aseguradora has faced one of the most challenging years in its history. The upturn in inflation continued to weigh on the net result for the year, but already in the third quarter there were signs of recovery stemming from the significant changes we are implementing. Línea Directa is prioritising profitable growth and remains firmly committed to digitalisation as a means of increasing efficiency in all its processes and reining in overhead expenses, increasing productivity and improving customer experience.
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Profitability margins are still suffering from the impact of cost inflation and higher personal injury claims, resulting in a loss of € 4.4 million in 2023. However, by the second half of the year the company had already moved out of the red, posting a net profit of € 10.7 million for the second semester, a clear sign of improvement and an indicator profitability.
The improvement is the result of a signiticant reduction in the Combined Ratio, which in the second half of 2023 improved by 3.8
p.p. compared to the first half of the year, thanks to risk reduction, greater efficiency of processes and digitalisation. The company keeps a very strong balance sheet, with an excess over required capital of
€ 159 million and a Solvency Ratio of 180%.The area of Corporate Governance has seen the company's Board of Directors continue to approve the company's policies in the various
endeavours. In 2023, the Board approved policies in the areas
Prevention, Safety, Health and Welfare as and Governance, a solid step in Línea Directa's committed path towards building a sustainable, rigorous organisation aligned with all regulatory requirements. With a view to adapting to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which will increase reporting on non-financial information, during the past year Linea
Directa has evaluated almost 300 suppliers and collaborators in the field of sustainability, which will allow it to gain greater knowledge of its value chain and work towards making it more sustainable, reporting on the impact of its activity on the environment.The past year also saw the entry into force of the Sustainability Plan me for the 2023-2025 period, which sets out the Group's roadmap in
this area. The Plan, which is aligned with the United Nations sustainable development strategy, is structured according to the three
ESG dimensions and includes o objectives, 15 strategic lines, and a total of 87 actions. Its objectives are ambitious: to generate business through a sustainable commercial offer, attract and nurture talent, promote a culture of sustainability, contribute value to shareholders, attract responsible investment, consolidate as a brand with an ESG reputation, and enhance the Group's social and environmental contributions.
The environmental component of the Plan incorporates numerous climate change mitigation actions with the aim of reducing emissions in the organisation and achieving NetZero by 2050. Línea Directa has launched numerous initiatives in this area, promoting responsible consumption, a circular economy, decarbonisation and a sustainable mobility and business model. The social component involves a wide range of actions in the areas of equality, diversity and respect for human rights, and shapes the company's wide ranging contribution to society. Finally, through Good Governance, the company aims to ensure ethical management, not just in accordance with the law, but beyond it, seeking to meet the commitments made by the Group in full. For instance, the company continues to be a bénchmark on relevant issues such as equality, sommos 15 15 a board of Directors, 58% of the members of the members of the by women.
I am convinced that this Plan, which has made good progress in its first year, will make Línea Directa Aseguradora an even more important player in the Spanish insurance market. Every year, the Group is included in the most important and relevant reputation monifors and certifications in Spain, such as MERCO Empresass,
MERCO Responsabilidad ESG, MERCO Talento or Top Employer. In 2023, Línea Directa also climbed eight points in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index rating, moving closer to its goal of being recognised in this prestigious index as a global benchmark in sustainability.
The year 2023 saw two other important decisions made by Línea more of the preparation of the first report according to the (Timble - Crift), and in die promother promother (Microlai
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Chairman of Línea Directa Aseguradora
Patricia Ayuela, CEO of Línea Directa Aseguradora, takes stock in this conversation of the results optained by the company in the current economic context. She looks at the progress made in the and points out the opportunities and growth levers for the organisation, as well as the Group's headways in digitalisation and sustainability.
Early last year, it was already apparent that 2023 would be a difficult year for the insurance sector due to the inflationary situation. What is your assessment of 2023?
The last two years have been among, the most complex the insurance business has seen in a long time. Inflation led to a sharp rise in the
cost of repairs and service provision in 2023, which meant a substantial increase in claims incurred and a significant deterioration in the margins of companies operating in the Non-Life segment, especially in the Motor insurance business. Although inflation gradually became more moderate, it remained at high levels
throughout 2023.
What made the problem worse is that inflation arrived at a time when average premiums in the sector were at historically low levels, having been progressively reduced for 20 years. The combination of these two factors, a sharp increase in the cost of claims and low premiums, severely affected insurance margins in the sector and is what has led Línea Directa to record a negative net result in 2023.
At Línea Directa Aseguradora we put together an action plan that would improve our insurance margins and redress the situation. First, we carried out an individualised adjustment of prices related to risk for each customer and then we toughened underwriting requirements. This meant prioritising profitability over growth in customers. We are also adopting measures to reduce the cost of claims. Meanwhile, we continue to push for efficiency in our entire operation, relying increasingly on digitalisation. We seek to
increase our cost differential with the sector. Ultimately, we are laying the foundations for future growth by keeping product
innovation going, accelerating the digitisation of customer relationships, and focusing on service quality.
In short, it is a plan that we are implementing with full determination and which is already beginning to show results.
ln the second half of the year, we began to see the very first results in
an improvement in our insurance margins. Thanks to measures taken the accounts is not immediate, income from premiums earned is growing steadily in all our business segments. Meanwhile, initiatives in claims management allowed us to reduce costs from claims
incyrred by 8% in the second half of the year compared to the first half. As a result, the Group's combined ratio improved by 3.8 p.p. in the second semester, the improvement was particularly noteworthy in our Motor insurance business. Tight control of overhead expenses and increased efficiency in our operations have enabled us to further
improve our Expense Ratio, which currently stands at 22.9%.
We have also managed to keep, in a complex environment, a solid
Solvency Ratio of 180%, which is the basis for meeting our future commitments to our customers and shareholders.
We have to be cautious because we are operating in a complex environment of enormous uncertainty and volatility. The economy is in a clear downturn. Inflation appears to be under control, but remains
at elevated levels. Due to the effect of compound interest, the increase in prices compared to three years ago is very significant. In addition, there are risk factors, such as geopolitical tensions, that could lead to a further price rally. This means that 2024 will continue to be a challenging year for the whole economy, including the insurance sector.
Under these circumstances, we need to continue to move forward with our action plan. All the improvements achieved so far indicate that we are on the right track, but we need to persevere in implementing these measures – only by achieving a sustained level of
profitability can we fulfil our growth ambitions. We have great strengths, the right strategy
and the determination and commitment of the whole organisation to carry it out. I am convinced that, with all of this, we will progressively reach the level of results that Línea Directa is capable of generating.
Ultimately, our priority is to return to profitability. At the same time, we are preparing to grow faster once we achieve that balance.
Even at a time like the present, when we are prioritising profitability, we have demonstrated that we are still a very competitive company demand for our products has performed extraordinarily well during 2023. This is due to the fact that we have a very compelitive insurance offer. We are able pass on the efficiency derived from our direct business model to policyholders in average premiums lower than those of the sector, while maintaining very broad coverage and excellent service quality.
We have also developed a very strong product innovation culture, which increases our ability to stand out from the crowd. The insurance market is highly competitive, runs a certain risk of commoditisation and, as if that were not enough, major changes are taking place in people's habits and insurance needs. This presents insurers with the challenge of being relevant to customers. We' need to be imaginative, innovative and bold to meet that demand. At Línea Directa, we have made a
major effort to stay at the cutting edge with products and services that make sense to customers and bring value to them. For instance, in 2023 we took the first step by an insurer in Spain towards bundling policies, with our "Car + Hóme Formula" product, and we have launched the first complete and comprehensive insurance against squatting, "Carefree Home".
In the last two years, we have completely reorganised the company from a segmentbased organisational model to a new one with a global view of customers and their insurance needs, based on a multi-segment approach. This is enabling us to increase our commercial efficiency, strengthen our recruitment and retention capabilities, and will be critical to our future growth and diversification.
health insurance under the Linea Directa brand. What is the reason for this decision?
We believed that the time had come to do so because the business segment had reached sufficient maturity. We already have an indepth knowledge of the industry and we are able to remain competitive in a and hology of the launch of our Health insurance in 2017,
we have reached 117,000 policyholders and are opening up the links
market to people who have never taken out a healt before. This is the result of an innovative, digital, flexible commercial proposal, with one of the most comprehensive medical lists out there and a unique programme to promote healthy habits.
The línea Directa brand is one of our main assets due to its strength and notoriety. By operating under it, our Health business segment will benefit from greater operational efficiency and commercial effectiveness.
Moreover, by operating Health under the Línea Directa brand, we are reflecting the company's new multisegment strategy. As a result, the proposition and a consistent customer experience across all channels.
All of this will contribute to the growth of our activity in the health sector, which is one of the fastest growing in the Spanish market and where we see a huge opportunity to diversity our business.
Línea Directa Aseguradora was a pioneer in the sale of policies online and has since consolidated its position as Spain's leading insurer in digitalisation. How are you approaching the Group's digital transformation and what benefits are derived from it for the company and its customers?
Due to our direct model, first implemented over the telephone and then over the internet, Línea Directa was born with a very powerful and advanced technological base that we have also applied in other areas - for instance, in underwriting. We have kept tocusing on the digitalisation of all our processes, adopting innovative and disruptive technologies. Technology is a great way to simplify, optimise and streamline processes. If allows us to be more agile. It gives us the possibility to improve the customer experience, through a more direct
and instantaneous service and more userfriendly and higher quality products. In short, it makes us more competitive.
We also see digital transformation as an opportunity to increase our relationship with our customers. Thanks to the fact that customers can now carry out virtually all of their insurance transactions via our website and mobile applications, these have reached a very high penetration rate. Today, more than 87% of policyholders interact with us through digital channels, and the number of their digital interactions with the company is 5.9% higher than the number of phone calls we receive. Such a significant volume of digital interactions is a commercial opportynity that we are already exploiting. We are expanding the digital functionalities of these channels, increasing the recurence of our other initiatives.
You mentioned the importance of people in an increasingly aigital world. What talent management challenges are posed by digital tacing?
The business environment is becoming increasingly competitive and, to be successful, companies need to be ever more innovative, agile and efficient. We need to have the necessary talent, ready and committed, to meet these challenges and achieve our business objectives not only in the short term, but also in the medium and long term. We must therefore be able to attract and retain professionals with the necessary skills, and to promote the training and professional development of thé people in the organisation.
At Línea Directa we have an attractive value proposition for people and, in 2023, we have also promoted the culture of professional development through a campaign called "Reevoluciona", which seeks to encourage employees to acquire new professional development 12 Shouserage omployees is included from promotion through a talent management model.
These initiatives to attract and retain talent, together with our commitment to quality employment, the promotion of employee well being and diversity and inclusion, are some of the objectives of our sustainability strategy.
We are a very ambitious company in our business objectives, but we are also ambitious about the way we achieve them. We have been integrating environmental, social and governance aspects into our management and business strategy for more than a decade, since the approval of our first threeyear Sustainability Plan. The plan for the period 2023-2025 is verý ambitious and represents a quantitative and qualitative step forward in this area.
In 2023 we have made great progress on a key issue for society as a whole, decarbonisation. We have continued to reduce our carbon footprint, specifically by 10% in the year. And, in keeping with our commitment of alignment with international best practices in measurement and reporting, we have already identified our risks and opportunities linked to to climate change according to he
recommendations of the Task Force on ClimateRelated Financial Disclosures (TCFD). We are making clear progress on our roadmap to
be a carbon neutral company by 2030 and with zero net emissions by 2050.
But we have also developed an ambitious strategy in relation to the other areas of sustainability, in addition to the envirónment. That is, the social and governance areas. We have been contributing to the first by promoting numerous measures for our customers, employees and society in general. And by placing value in the good governance practices that have taken us into prestigious indices such as BME's lbex Gender Equality Index, we are contributing to the second.
When it comes to ESG, it is clear to me that the work required is like
a long distance race, subject to a highly changing environment, which forces us to keep at it and continuously improve.
Línea Directa Foundation, which in 2024 celebrates its first ten years of activity, is a fundamental pillar of your sustainability strategy. How successful has it been?
The Foundation was born in 2014 with a core mission: help reduce the number of road accident victims.
As a specialist motor insurance company, we experience the problem of road accidents as our own, having witnessed many tragedies that shatter families and lives. For this reason, at Línea Directa we have always been aware that our social responsibility should not only be to help victims recover or compensate them financially, but that we should also pursue the ambitious goal of zero deaths in traffic accidents.
To this end, and under the slogan "Road satety. here and now", we are working on four lines of action that we were already promoting in the company even before we set up the Foundation. These are: awareness raising, research, social action and training. One of our main initiatives in this area, the Road Satety Journalist Award, turned 20 years old in while areas) in this time seen that, hand in hand with the media, we can positively influence driver behaviour.
Twenty years ago, 5,400 people died in road accidents in Spain each year, which meant that the road death rate was 2.5% higher than the EU average. Today, the number of road deaths has been reduced by a third and we are the fourth country in Europe with the lowest fatallity
rate. At Línea Directa we can proudly say that we have contributed to this great collective success together with the government, other institutions and, of course, the drivers themselves.
However, we should not be complacent nor think the objective has been achieved. In recent years, the number of fatalities has not only stagnated, but has risen slightly to over 1,700 accident fatalities per year. Together, we must be able to reach the goal of "zero deaths" on the road. Línea Directa will continue to work to promote good driving habits and improve road satety in Spain.
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The 2023 Consolidated Non-Financial Information Statement has been prepared in accordance with the contents set out in the applicable commercial regulations, which require the information to this document, línea Directa Group reports on corporate governance, environmental, human resources, social and human rights issues relevant to the company in the context of its business activities.
Thus, it has been drawn up based on the principles of accuracy, balance, clarity, comparability, comprehensiveness, sustainability, publishing and distributing this report on an annual basis, Línea Directa Group makes it possible to compare it with previous years, so that stakeholders can objectively assess the changes in the main performance indicators.
The selection of the contents included in this report is based on,
among other factors, the materiality analysis carried out in 2022 in and of the preparation of the Sustancerial of the Sustandilion of no 2023-2023-1
the framework of the preparation of the Sustanability of the September of indices, industry competitors, industry reports and studies, academic and financial consultations, cusfomers, suppliers and investors) and internal information sources (Group employees and management).
As a result of this process, it was also determined that the contents of Law 11/2018 relating to noise and light pollution, circular economy, food waste, biodiversity and impact on protected areas were not considered material, given the specificities of the sector and the Group's activities.
The emergence of COVID-19 significantly altered the quanitiative
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Línea Directa Group's raison d'être is to meet its business objectives in closeness with people, working every day for its customers,
shareholders and society in general, providing them with security and onders of a la oost, in going in and min sooming in and researly and
to their min in east continues on events, phone in rososhiy and and mind and mind commend and bring of e organisation and which are linked to the mission, vision and values under which it operates.
Línea Directa's transformational spirit and its culture of innovation contribute to its proven ability to adapt with agility and flexibility to a changing environment and tó respond to the present and future needs
of its stakeholders.
The essence of Línea Directa's commercial and social activity as an
insurance company is to be available when mishaps occur, mitigating their impact, while protecting the environment and contributing to the well-being of society. The company seeks to build relationships of trust with all its stakeholders, placing its knowledge, experience, quality of service, and innovation and technological capabilities at their service.
Línea Directa maintains a direct, close and transparent relationship with all its stakeholders, as a natural extension of the value and differentiation provided by its direct business model, which is reflected in its own uniqué organisational model, operations and culture.
Línea Directa Aseguradora burst into the market in 1995 with a 100% direct business model, launching a new form of insurance in Spain. Thanks to the inherent advantages of this operating model, a
strong culture of innovation and increasing digitalisation of the organisation, the Group has experienced steady growh in its 28-year
history, consolidating its position as one of the leading companies in the forefront of the transformation of the insurance sector.
Línea Directa's history has been shaped by its ability to provide customers with uniqué, competitive and high quality products and services. In an increasingly disruptive world, and relying on its
customer knowledge, innovation and quality service provision capabilities, Línea Directa Aseguradora continues to work every day ാമ്മേഹിന്ദ്രം and health.
Línea Directa Group was also born with a strong technological base
and the degree of digital transformation it has achieved over the years gives it a privileged position in the market. The company intends to put the advantages of its digitalisation at the service of its policyholders through an excellent customer experience by offering new, more direct communication channels, simple and agaile
processes and services, and by promoting digital tools as a point of contact with policyholders.
The commitments made by the company to its stakeholders are tied to the mission and vision under which it operates and are aligned with its corporate purpose.
Línea Directa contributes its expertise in direct response and places it at the service of its customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers and, therefore, society as a whole, generating wealth, safety and a more responsible and sustainable environment for people.
The Group's vision is to be at the foretront of innovation in the insurance sector, promoting values related to road safety, home safety, health, the environment and sustainability. Línea Dirécta aims to be the insurance company known for its respect for the groups it relates to, especially customers, employees, suppliers and society as a whole.
The corporate culture of Línea Directa Aseguradora is built from the five values that guide all of its activities and the behaviour of its people.
· In a context of changing employment frends on a global scale,
Línea Directa Aseguradora has consolidated its position as one of the 50 companies with the greatest capacity to attract and retain talent in Spain. The company's commiment to internal
talent and its professional development, employee wellbeing and its flexible working model have enabled the Group to move up two positions in the Merco Talento 2022 ranking to 43rd place.
extended to plug-in hybrids, includes coverage and services oxioned to the specificities of this type of sustainable vehicle, such as battery or recharging cable thett, or travel assistance in the event of battery discharge.
· Start-up Engidi wins the 9th edition of Línea Directa Foundation's Road Safety and Entrepreneurs Award. The award seeks to recognise and promote road safety entrepreneurship by supporting and funding innovative ideas that help to combat road accidents and improve the postaccident treatment of victims. Engidi designs and manufactures loT electronic equipment that can be integrated into the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) of workers such as road construction and maintenance workers and connect with drivers to prevent accidents and roadkill and drastically reduce the number of road fatalities.
· Línea Directa Foundation, in collaboration with Centro Zaragoza, presents the study "Life in a second. Distractions and accidents on Spanish roads (2012-2021)". This report recalls that in the last decade there were 238,000 victim-causing accidents and 6,200 deaths as a result of distractions, which together with speeding and alcohol and drug consumption make up the so-called "accident triangle" on the road. The study concludes that although the number of distraction-related accidents has decreased significantly between 2012 and 2021, their fatality rate has risen by 52% as a result of speeding, which aggravates accidents of this type.
· Línea Directa includes in its home insurance full coverage against illegal occupation of the home. The product, unique in Spain due to the breadth of its coverage, includes up to € 10,000 in legal assistance by the company and legal costs (lawyer, solicitor, expert witness, notary fees, court costs and fees) to recover the home, as well as financial compensation for expenses in refitting the home, from utilities, loss of rental income and other costs.
non-holiday periods and significantly higher than other public holidays.
· On the occasion of the long weekend of 15 August, one of the most dangerous of the year in terms of road safety in Spain, Línea Directa Foundation launches an information campaign based Directa Foomaanse Talending Spaint Spains Spain Statist Statistic Statistic Schools
holiday in Spain (2012-2021)". around 7,500 accidents iwere recorded aduring this long
weekend, with almost 200 fatalities, around 20 per year.
· Línea Directa Aseguradora presents its results for September showing an improvement in its margins and a net profit of € 0.9
million in the third quarter of the year as a result of the pricing, underwriting and claims management efficiency measures months of the year increased by 3% year-on-year to € 731.9 million, as turnover grew in all business segments.
· The mental health study "Understanding or brooding over our emotions. An analysis of the silent strategies that bring us closer to or move us away from emotional well-being", elaborated by the Health insurance segment of Línea Directa, concludes that rumination is behind 40% of anxiety problems in the Spanish population and 30% of those of depression. The report, prepared jointly with the expert in emotional intelligence Ruth Castillo-Gualda and the specialist in anxiety and stress intervention Juan Ramos-Cejudo, both professors at the Faculty of Health of the Camilo José Cela University (UCJC), looks closely at different strategies that move people closer to or further away from greater emotional well-being.

| Employees | ||
|---|---|---|
| Permanent contracts | 99.5% | |
| Women in senior management positions | 58% | |
| Women in positions of responsibility" | 51% | |
| Pay gap | 3.1% | |
| Empleados en voluntariado corporativo | 169 |
Positions of responsibility include the Management Committee and the middle managers.

LOCAL SUPPLIERS
| Customers | |
|---|---|
| NPS (Net Promoter Score) | 29.16 |
| NSS (Net Satistaction Score) | 33.67 |
| Digital customers | 87.4% |
| Calls answered | 11.12 M |
| Average discount to health customers for positive habits |
45.15€ |
| Number of consultations to the tele- medicine and medical service online chat |
40,542 |

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| Environment | |
|---|---|
| Renewable electricity (Linea Directa Aseguradora) |
100% |
| Percentage of self-generated electricity (Group) |
14% |
| Reduction of energy consumption (Group) |
4% |
| Reduction of paper consumption (Group) |
6% |
| Reduction of emissions (Group: scopes and 2) |
10% |
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| Linea Directa Foundation | 00 |
|---|---|
| Start-up projects received for the Entrepreneurs and Road Safety Award |
50 |
| Projects presented for the XX Journalism Road Safety Award |
2,003 |
| Number of news items generated by Road Safety studies |
815 |
| Sustainable finance | |
|---|---|
| Percentage of eligible premiums according to the taxonomy |
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| Eligible investment porttolio according to EU Taxonomy by turnover |
14.1% |
| Eligible investment porttolio according to EU Taxonomy by CapEx |
12.7 |
| Percentage of premiums aligned with the taxonomy |
2.1% |
| Aligned investment portfolio according to the EU Taxonomy by turnovercio |
2.3 |
| Eligible investment portfolio according to EU Taxonomy by CapEx |
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| ESG risk of the investment portfolio |
20.43 |
The Spanish insurance sector has maintained solid revenue growth in its main business segments in a context of economic slowdown, while high levels of inflation have, for yet another year, continued
to affect the results and profitability ratios of companies specialising in general insurance.
In 2023, the global economy has continued to recover from the impacts of the pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, albeit with growth slowing down as the year progressed. Contributing to this with weakness in manufacturing activity; tighter financial conditions
stemming from tight monetary policies; and high inflationary pressure, with a rebound in energy prices.
World gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 3.1% during the
year, according to estimates by the International Monetay Friends between the main geographical areas. The United States recorded
stronger than expected growth, the euro area showed some stagnation throughout the year and China's economy, although it
grew at 5.2%, is far from its prepandemic pace.
| GDP growth in % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024* | ||
| World | 3.5% | 3.1% | 3.1% | |
| Euro area | 3.3% | 0.5% | 0.9% | |
| United States | 1.9% | 2.5% | 2.1% | |
| China | 3.0% | 5.2% | 4.6% |
*IMF forecast. January 2024 World Economic Outlook
Outlooks may be affected by geopolitical tensions. The war in
Ukraine and an extension of the Gazalsrael conflict could lead to o and energy.
Inflation, which reached 8.4% in 2022, eased to 6.8% in 2023, reflecting monetary policies, and is expected to continue to decelerate
progressively. Central banks have signalled that interest rate hikes rogeted on of other some is even speculation about the first mass
hove icome to and there is even speculation about the first most
cuts in 2024, although they are expected i
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pronounced slowdown in China and the levels of public debt and deficits in some countries.
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This slowdown is, according to the institution, due to a slowydown in the external environment and a less favourable outlook for future developments in consumption by households.
The general Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 3.1% at the end of December last year. In annual average terms, it eased from 8.4% in 2022 to 3.5% in 2023. Nonetheless, core inflation remained above headline inflation throughout the year, with an annual average rate of housines million information for your will continue to easy.
6%. Banco de España forecass that the CPI will continue to ease.
progressively, reaching 3.3% by the end of 2024 in 2025.

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The performance of the insurance business in 2023 has been marked by developments in the economy and, in particular, by the effect of
monetary policies and high levels of inflation. While the sector has recorded solid and symmetrical premium income growth in its two main segments, life and Non-life, the performance in tems of profitability has been different between the two. Non-life, and in particular Motor insurance, continues to be negatively impacted by the increase in average repair costs and injury rates.
The sector's premium income amounted to € 76,463 million for the year, 18% more than in 2022, driven mainly by the Life business, whose turnover grew by 36.3% to
€ 33,452 million, thanks to the rise in interest rates. Non-life revenues increased by 6.8% to € 43,011 million, intensifying the growth rate of 2022 (+4.7%), according to data from Investigación Cooperativa de Entidades Aseguradoras (ICEA).
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All the main Non-Life segments recorded significant growth in terms of revenues.
Motor, which is the leading general insurance segment with 28% of
total Non-Life turnover, improved its revenues by 6.6% to € 12, 108 million. The positive development was mainly due to the increase in average premiums in the industry in response to the narrowing of insurance margins and, to a lesser extent, to the increase in the number of insured vehicles.
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In 2023, the industry continued to be hampered by high repair costs, which affected profifability.
In addition, the injury rate rose by 8.5%. As a result, the combined
ratio of the insurance sector as a whole was above 100% during the Spanish insurance sector).
The Home and Health segments again recorded outstanding growth, despite the economic slowdown and the effects of monetary policy.
The tightening of tinancial conditions as a result of the rise in interest more light hing of manager soles of more than 9% in 2023, according
to data at the end of November, the latest data available from INE (Spanish National Statistics Institute). Despite this, rate adjustments and the increase in home insurance penetration allowed the Home insurance segment to increase premium income by 6.4%, to € 5,475
million, a growth 0.8 percentage points higher than that recorded in 2022.
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From a profitability standpoint, Non-Life technical profit or loss was impacted by the escalation in average repair and service costs, which mainly affected the Motor segment. Net interest income in the general insurance business, on the other hand, improved, driven by higher returns on investments thanks to interest rate hikes.
In his context, Linea Directo Aseguradora, with a customer porfolio of
3.3 million 2.00icyholders, recorded of million in all in
income, a 2.08% increase, the to be gepress a Health by 4.5%.
As has been the general trend in the sector, the company's results
were affected by the inflationary situation, resulting in a net loss of company had on its margins.
The Línea Directa brand is one of the company's most important strategic assets. The brand also reflects the identity and essence of the company: a unique and successful way of doing insurance, with strength, leadership and values. Since its launch in 1995, Línea Directa Aseguradora has maintained a direct relationship with its customers through simple and fresh communication. This, together with its capacity for innovation and the digitalisation of its processes, has enabled the company to consolidate its position as one of the leading insurers in the Spanish market and to become a large multi-segment organisation.
Línea Directa Asegurador was born 29 years ago marketing a single product -car insurance and with a direct besiness segment insurance in insuraling insuraling insuraling insuraling insuraling insuraling in keeps running its direct business model, allowing its more than 3.3 million customers to engage directly with the company via telephone and the Group's digital channels.
Línea Directa Aseguradora's objective has always been to put the customer first. Prior to 1995, insurance sales were almost exclusively made through internediary channels. Línea Directa Aseguradora then burst into the market with its direct business model, having no branch networks, and marking a turning point in the sector, because it passes on to the customer part of the savings it obtains through its operating model, without having to reduce the scope nor quality of its services.
The direct model involves both a different way of relating to customers and different organisational, operational and cultural characteristics. This, in turn, brings with it a number of qualities that make it highly competitive: a strong strategic alignment, state-of-theart technological support and extraordinary flexibility to respond more efficiently and nimbly to the needs of the business and its customers.
All of this translates into advantages for customers in terms of proximity, unique products, quality of service and compeitive prices, which thé
company describes in the claim"El valor de ser directo" [the value and boldness of being direct]. Línea Directa's proposal met with an excellent response from the market, and the company broke even in only four years and in less than ten years it reached its first million customers, despite operating in only one business segment.
Introducing and developing the direct model entailed a complete overhaul of the dominant distribution channels to date, as well as a radical new way of approaching society. Línea Directa devised a different advertising communication strategy, simple and far removed from the archetypes used in the sector up to that time. To this end, it promoted fresh, dynamic, flexible advertising, especially
cimed at mass media, which, using a somewhat humorous tone, highlighted the advantages of the direct model for the customer with the aim of connecting them to the brand.
Currently, Línea Directa Aseguradora has consolidated its position as one of the largest advertisers in the country according to Infoadex and one of the Spanish insurance brands with the highest advertising and only of the openion instrumes brands will into mights. Gavenising
recall according to the IOPE Advertising Awareness study compiled
by Kantar TNS.
The disruption in advertising is the result of the strong culture of innovation that characterises Línea Directa Group and which encompasses marketing, processes and product development. Initially specialising in car insurance, the Group began to operate in the
Home segment in 2008 and in 2017 launched its Health segment insurance solutions.
Línea Directa aims to cover all the insurance needs of customers.
The organisation was born with an advanced technological base as
one of the pillars of its direct model. In 1999, four years affer the launch of its operations, Línea Directa became the first insurance company to distribute policies over the internet. Its strong commitment to technology
and the absence of cross-channel conflict has given the Group a great advantage in the digital arena. Currently, more than 87% of offer higher quality, more agile and direct insurance and services, improving user experience.
Línea Directa Aseguradora is one of the 13 leading Non-Life insurance companies in Spain thanks to its position in the Motor segment, in which it is the 5th largest insurer in the country in terms of turnover, and its growing activity in the Home and Health segments, in which it is ranked 1 3th and 24th respectively. Building on this diversification, the company aims to consolidate its position as a large multi-segment insurer.
This entailed, in 2022, a reorganisation of the corporate structure, consolidated in 2023, shifting from a segment-based organisation to a global vision of customers and their needs. The organisation went from being divided by business segments to being_structured in two customer-focused areas: on the one hand, the Commercial area, responsible for attracting new business based on brand leadership, a multi-segment commercial proposal, product innovation and strategic
alliances; and on the other, the Portfolio area, responsible for fostering a more continuous and closer relationship with customers, strengthening and securing the long-term loyalty of policyholders.
ln 2023, this new approach translated into the Group's commercial
proposals such as "Car+home formula", which allows policyholders to take out car and home policies together, benefiting from more competitive prices and free additional coverage. This is the first step by an insurer in Spain towards the bundling or merging of policies for the same tamily unit.
ln September 2023, in line with its multisegment strategy, the company
began to market its Health insurance, which until then had been The Health segment can now benefit from the strength and potential of the Group's iconic brand, leader in notoriety in the Spanish insurance market, and policyholders can access a comprehensive commercial proposal and a homogenous customer experience in all channels. As a result, the company will be able to optimise commercial efficiency
and increase customer loyalty, thus contributing to the Group's growth and diversitication.
The External Communication and Sustainability department has designed an ambitious Corporate Communication Plan, which, through a strategy combining earned media and own channels, reports to the company's stakeholders and to society as a whole the company's financial résults, its corporate and business strategy, its
performance in sustainability and the remarkable activity, of línea Directa Foundation in the promotion and detence of road satety.
The Communication Plan includes careful monitorisation of the news items generated by the company, analysing their subject matter, tone, space, duration, audiences and equivalent advertising values, in order to evaluate its scope and results.
In 2023, the company and Línea Directa Foundation issued 31 press releases and presented 7 reports on road safety and topics of general interest relating to cars, housing and health. Additionally, its main spokespersons, including the CEO, have been interviewed and have participated in numerous forums. The impact achieved and may panisipality in ministed for miles and miles and road.
with all hese actions has been: 3,920 news items, of which and only of the more on the more on the more on the
Línea Directa Aseguradora has also set up its own channels of communication with its stakeholders and the public, including the Group's corporate accounts on the main social media sites, a corporate blog and a blog for Línea Directa Foundation, in addition to the corporate website, the company's commercial website and the Foundation's website.
With a strategy based on organic growth, dynamic communication and the creation of a stable and participative community around the
brand's values, by the end of 2023 the company had 46,3,379 followers on its Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok accounts, making it one of the insurers with the largest social media following and generating the most activity on these sites. The Group's blogs, which focus on providing relevant and useful information for theublic and highlighting the activities of the insurer and its Foundation, received 59,495 visits, an average of 4,958 per month.
| PUBLIC LEADERSHIP | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of news items | 8,340 | 7,203 | 5,926 |
| Audiences reached (millions) | 3,208 | 2,039 | 1,831 |
| Press releases made | 43 | 44 | 31 |
| Merco Companies | 54 | 48 | 40 |
| Merco Talent | 45 | 43 | ★ |
| Merco ESG Responsibility | રેર્ટ | 60 | 62 |
| Recognitions | 00 | 7 | 8 |
| Followers on social media | 434.395 | 461,661 | 463,379 |
* 2023 ranking not available
Its corporate communication strategy enables the organisation to fulfil its commitment to transparency and to position itself according to its brand attributes, revealing the coherence between its words and actions. Year after year, Linea Directa Aseguradora is included in the achens: Podridner your, in Spain, such as Merco Companies (40)
main reputation monitors in Spain, such as Merco Companies (40)
place), Merco Talent (43rd
Línea Directa Aseguradora operates a business strategy that, guided by the mission, vision and corporate purpose of the Group and in conjunction with its sustainability strategy, seeks profitable and sustainable growth that generates value for its shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers and society in general. This strategy is based on the pillars that define and differentiate Línea Directa Group from its competitors and is adapted to meet the present and future challenges and opportunities arising from market circumstances.
Línea Directa Aseguradora started its activity in 1995 with a business model based on disintermediation and direct distribution. As a result of the advantages of this model for both the company and its customers,
which the Group summarises with the claim "El valor de ser directo" [the value and boldness of being direct], the company quickly became a success story in the Spanish insurance market.
The organisation operates through the telephone and digital channels, without branch networks and with all its operations centralised in its headquarters in Tres Cantos (Madrid), which translates into greater efficiency. Technical rigour, innovation in marketing and products, as
well as advanced digitalisation in processes add value to the model, making Línea Directa Group more competitive, and enabling it to offer customers comprehensive products and an extraordinary quality of service at more competitive prices.
Throughout its 29 years of activity, Línea Directa Aseguradora has sustained a profitable and organic growth in customers and income, which has allowed the company to rank 1.3th among Non-Life insurance groups in Spain in terms of income from premiums.
With an insurance portfolio of more than 3.3 million customers, the million, driven by the growth in turnover of the three business segments
in which it operates — Motor, Home and Health. In a context of continued inflation that has led to a sharp deterioration in the margins of the insurance sector as a whole, linea Directa's strategy has been to prioritise profitable growth through excellent risk selection and an adaptation of rates to the risk of each customer at the current time.
The company relies on a subscription and pricing model that allows it to offer each customer a personalised price and adapt its products and rates to particular circumstances.
The Group's strategic priority in the current market environment is to improve insurance margins through various channels: adjusting premiums and underwriting standards to current risks, optimising claims management and continuously increasing efficiency through strict control of overhead expenses and productivity gains, supported in particular by the increasing digitalisation of its processes.
Línea Directa Group aims to maintain profitable and sustained growth through the generation of new business, increasing the loyalty of the portfolio and focusing its entire strategy on the customer.
To this end, it seeks to cover all customers' insurance needs through a highly competitive offer, based on insurance policies with broad and unique coverage, a high quality of service and an excellent user experience thanks to its digital service range.
Proximity to customers, a culture of innovation and agility intrinsic to the company's business model give Línea Directa Aseguradora a great company of assumes in the should be should and institution and institution of argues and instructions of careers of Motor, Home and Health'.
Throughout 2023, Línea Directa launched innovative products, such as "Car + home formula", the first step by an insurer in Spain towards the packaging of policies for the same family unit, by offering car and വിവിധ്യ
In recent years, the company has also been committed to being at the forefront, from the point of view of adapting the insurance offer, to the paradigm shift that is taking place in mobility with the boom in
sustainable vehicles, personal mobility vehicles (PMVs) and new formulas for use and ownership such as leasing. In 2023, the company
extended its Respira (breathe) policy, the insurance policy for electric and plug-in hybrid cars with specific coverage for these vehicles launched in 2016, to electric motorbikes. Meanwhile, Línea Directa ന്നും നിന്ന് 2010) - 10 വർണ്ണം നിയമ്പന്മാനം നിരവും നിരവും പുറത്തേ
വിടങ്ങി insurance through Carning വിശ്വാസം കാണ്ട് സംസ്
പട്ടed vehicles with financing vehicle And, in And, company launched the ADAS Campaign with discounts on policies for
vehicles that incorporate an advanced driving assistance system. This is in addition to other commercial innovations Taunched by the company in recent years in this field such as Call it X, the first insurance with car
included, and Safe&Go, a specific policy for users of scooters and other PMVs.
Product innovation has been part of the company's culture and DNA since its origins and is transversal to the entire organisation, increasing the Group's competitive advantage in today's highly disruptive environment.
Because of its direct business model, which requires a strong technological base, since its inception Linea Directa Aseguradora has
been at the forefront of the sector in the field of digitalisation. The company continues to make progress in its digital transformation with
the aim of becoming more efficient and offering a better service.
To this end, the company has been improving and evolving the technologies that contribute to optimising the management of its processes. Digitalisation contributes to improving customer experience, serving policyholders at any time and place and making useful products and services available to them, as well as enhancing digital channels as a customer relationship point, thus increasing commercial opportunities.
Throughout 2023, Línea Directa has extended the digitalisation of its internal processes, , increased the range of digital services offered to its customers through the mobile application, and optimised claims management.
Relying on the use of advanced technologies such as artificial intélligence (AI), the company already applies natural language processing to the administration of claims, insulating the customer from the complexity of the company's processes. This has enabled it to reduce the operational burden and errors in managing digital claims, . Sales in of Profitions of improving user expression samson
sheath the improvements achieved with All, 75% of Lines Director
due to the improvements achieved with All, 75% to increase the efficiency of this process and move towards automatic damage assessment without human intervention.
Through this advanced digitalisation process, Línea Directa അശ്വനം അവലംബം വേടിയ
related to their policies through the Línea Directa App and website, such as contracting, registering accident reports and following them up. A positive customer experience has translated into a high degree of penetration of digital services, with more than 87% of policyholders now interacting with the company through digital channels, and interactions through digital channels outnumbering contacts over the phone by 59%.
Línea Directa's strategy of efficiency through digitalisation encompasses the entire organisation and all its processes, from underwriting and claims management to its relationship with suppliers and ways of working among employees. In this regard, and also based on Al, the company has developed an internal chat called LiDiA that offers personalised_answers to the most common queries of the Group's employees. This allows these queries to be dealt with in an automated way and allows the entity's People Care teams to focus on those tasks of greatest value to the employee.
Línea Directa was created in 1995 as a joint venture between
Bankinter and Royal Bank of Scotland, focusing on the direct sale of motor insurance. Over the years, the company has diversified its business lines to become a multi-segment company, currently operating
in the Motor, Home and Health segments. This growth has made línea Directa Aseguradora the 1 3th largest Non-Life insurance company in terms of premium volume (according to ICEA, the Spanish insurance industry's statistics and research service), with a furnover of more than €
973.3 million and 3.3 million policyholders.
Motor insurance is the core business of the Group. At the end of 2023, Allion model of the Solo Bothers of the Scopen is prosper in the one of 2020,
with revenues of € 792.7 million, and 74.5 of the comments of the more
with revenues of € 792.7 Aseguradora the 5th largest insurer in the segment by premium volume at the end of 2023.
The company offers a comprehensive and personalised range of policies for cars, motorcycles, personal and commercial vehicles for individuals as well as large companies, SMEs and the self-employed. Its direct business model, focus on innovation and in-depth market knowledge enable it to offer differentiated coverage and services tailored to each type of customer.
The company's product range now extends from classic policies (All
Risks, All Risks with Excess, Extended Third Party, and Third Party, to
differential policies such as Super party guarantees to cover the policyholder's own losses under certain circumstances. The company also offers special cover tor accidents involving animals or the option of choosing between repair and segment with two other independent brands: Penélope Seguros, created in 2012 with cover specially designed for women, and Aprecio, an insurance policy aimed at motorbike users.
The Home segment, which started operations in 2008, has become a real engine of growth and diversification for Línea Directa. Vith a premium turnover of € 149.4 million and more than_727,000 homes insured, this business segment already contributes 15% of the Group's
income and 22% of its customer portfolio.
In a context where mortgage loans and home insurance are closely linked, Línea Directa markers a product based on flexibility and price linked, thies birecta markes a product boyses on hexipmir than proce
compellitiveness, in which the company to considere a him wevel
an attribute that has enabled the company ferms of business volume.
In recent years, the Group has strengthened its home insurance range through alliances with companies in other sectors. The aim is to give its customers access to other housing-related services on advantageous terms, to attract new policyholders and to promote energy efficiency in homes.
New developments in 2023 include the launch of its comprehensive coverage against squatting, which has seen a high penetration among new customers.
At the end of 2017 Línea Directa Aseguradora began operating in the Health insurance business segment under the Vivaz brand, as part of the company's strategy to diversify its business. In just six years and operating in a very misture and concentrated market, the Group has
gained 117,000 policyholders and € 30.4 million in revenues,
making it one of the 25 largest health insurer
The insurer's organic growth in this sector is driven by its 100% digital
approach, the simplicity and flexibility of its customer experience, the approduit, the simplically on is cashing be ins cashing of the superience, mic
competitiveness of its premiums and the break of the superity of the summises of I, OOO
profess
The company pays particular attention to preventive medicine and the public, in
promotion of healthy lifestyles among policyholders and the public, in For example, the Group enables its customers to benefit from preventive diagnostic tests without having any symptoms. The company also
encourages its policyholders to adopt healthy habits such as walking at onoofgoo is pollowing as a day, sleeping at least of hours anight and editing an
least 10,000 seps a day, sleeping at least 7 hours a night and edition
renewal for customers
At the end of 2023, the app that monitors adherence to these healthy
habits had more than 19,000 registered users.
During 2023, app users recorded an average of 2 19,500 steps per
person per month and a total of 42 million hours of sleep, resulting in
an average discount of € 45.15 per cu
A major milestone in this business was achieved in 2023. As part of the company's multi-segment strategy, Health insurance is now marketed directly under the Línea Directa brand. Selling products under the main brand, which is the best known in the wider insurance sector, is intended to strengthen customer loyalty and support the growth and diversification of the organisation. It will also allow the company to offer customers a comprehensive and homogeneous customer journey, enhancing synergies and cross-selling opportunities.
This rebranding has not resulted in any change to the coverage or terms and conditions for customers, who will continue to have the same access to the medical directory and the rest of the company's services through the app, as well as continuing to be included in the rewards programme for maintaining healthy habits.
At an operational level, the company handled a total of 40,542 chat and videoconferencing requests in 2023, compared to 42,872 the previous year. Some of the most requested online consultations are with general practitioners, nutritionists, paediatricians and gynaecologists.
Línea Directa Asistencia is the Group's subsidiary specialising in veritication, appraisal and travel assistance services. The company operates through a network of thousands of employees throughout ടിയിന്റെ സ്വീതം
ln addition, thanks to the agreements with the European pariners of
Astrum Alliance, the world's leading association of travel assistance
companies, it can offer this service both inside and outside Spain, 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in Spanish, English, German and Portuguese, for both the vehicle and its occupants in the event of a breakdown, accident or theft.
Línea Directa Asistencia offers innovative mobility and roadside assistance solutions through its own team and a wide and experienced network of partners. These services include:
· Digital towing. Customers can use the app to request a tow
truck in less than 30 seconds. The app uses GPS geolocation to pinpoint the location of the customer and their vehicle, allowing realtime tracking of the route taken by the assistance vehicle and the estimated time of arrival. The company also offers the Facetruck service, through which, with the aim of increasing security in the provision of services, the customer
receives a photo and details of the crane operator and can communicate with them by message.
The breadth and excellence of the company's pormer soften network
guarantees a service with a high level of customer satisfaction.
Directa , Asistencia's service is rrted "ex respondents, with an average towing time of 31 minutes and 44% of
respondents, with an average towing time of 31 minutes and 44% of
repairs carried out on the spot.
Linea Directa Asistencia also acts as an emergency call centre in the
diffeent Spanish Autonomous Communities. If the eccall device in the contact the customer to manage the emergency. If communication is not comments concerner of the Asistencia alerts the emergency services,
informing them of the accident and its location, reducing the time it takes to receive medical attention.
In addition to an extensive network of collaborators consisting of
1,000 body shops, mechanics and laminated glass workshops , Línea Directa Aseguradora runs two state-of-the-art workshops of its Enou Dirocal 7 Sosgnador Partic Mose Chile in Montoph Consesser in Construction of id
own, as well as ifs own Advinces of Conpress Consess in Architer in Winese in Wine Phicl excellence.
The Mo Linea Directo Aseguradora workshops carried out a total of
17,207 repairs in 2023. Of these, CAR Madrid, in operation of the server.
2008, was responsible for 9,850 , 1.6%).
The knowledge and information gathered by the two centres has enabled the Group to significantly increase its repair knowledge and innovation, improve quality and reduce claims costs. CAR workshops
are able to manage all their internal and external processes 100% ang allowing customers to carry out a wide range connects, resolv
the chamel, such as changing their proventing results results in reparts in reparts in repar, others.
All this has resulted in an excellent rating by users. The NSS (Net Allings nat School in Schoolona index for production incomportantes (1 on
services) of CAR Barcelona and CAR Madrid was 4 2.86% and on 1900% and 1900% and non-cooperating repairers.
CAR also has its own fleet of courtesy cars, which are made available to customers free of charge until the repair is completed.
As part of the reorganisation of the company's supply processes, LDAReparaciones will cease to operate as a partnership in December 2023.
For years, Línea Directa Group has been committed to sustainability, and this is reflected in its three-year sustainability plan, which runs unfil 2025.
The plan includes 87 specific actions in 15 action areas for the period 2023-2025, is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is integrated into the company's strategy.
On the commercial side, the Group has developed and launched various products and services that, in addition to meeting the business and growth objectives of each of the three segments in which it
operates (Motor, Home and Health), aim to have a positive impact on society and the environment.
In the Motor segment, Linea Directo offers the Respira policy, the first
insurance policy specifically designed
In response to the uncertainty caused to consumers by the restrictions on the most polluting vehicles and the rise of new forms of mobility and
ownership, Linea Directa began marketing in 2020 "Liamalo X", the including maintenance and taxes.
This solution, which has been very well received at the launch of each of the promotions, regularly includes environmentally friendly vehicles.
By yearend 2023, "Llámalo X" had more than 2,600 carinclusive policies.
Línea Directa customers have at their disposal the ConducTOP mobile application, a programme that analyses the driving style of its users with the aim of making it safer and, therefore, more sustainable. The app
takes into account the smoothness of cornering and braking, acceleration and adherence to speed limits, as well as concentration
at the wheel. Policyholders with the highest scores accumulate points and discounts that can be exchanged for products and services at
Cepsa petrol stations. At yearend 2023, the App had accumulated
66,578 downloads in the Android and IOS store
The Advanced Repair Centres (CAR), Línea Directa's own stateof-heart workshops, offer a wide range of ecoldbelled replacement
vehicles that run on IPG (Liqueli
Also in the area of sustainable insurance, Línea Directa Asistencia runs the Night Assistance for Young People sevice, which provides night
ime transport for customers under the age of 26 if they free of charge, covers both the driver and their vehicle. The aim of this initiative, which is unique in the sector, is to prevent risky situations for a group particularly exposed to road accidents.
In recent years, mobility in Spanish cities has undergone profound changes. Urban planning based on pedestrianisation, restrictions on
internal combustion vehicles and a change in the mentality of new generations, who are more reluctant to buy cars, have encouraged new ways of getting around, including pérsonal mobility vehičles
(PMVs), such as electric scooters and bicycles.
Aware of this new reality, Línea Directa Aseguradora launched
Safe&Goin September 2021, the first 100% digital increation
users of all types of personal mobility ve hoverboards.
Safe&Go can be taken out at the customer's request to cover just one
trip, under the concept of "on/off insurance", on a payper-use basis, or for a whole year. Users can activate and deactivate their
insurance via the Safe&Go app and only pay for the actual time of three different annual packages, depending on the level of coverage, ranging from € 18.35 for the most basic product to € 38.96 for the most comprehensive product.
Safe&Go not only covers damage caused to third parties, but can also cover physical damage suffered by users themselves, and even legal defence. In addition, in the event of an accident, the insurance app will pinpoint your location, which can reduce emergency response times and get you help quickly.
The main novelty of this product is that, unlike the traditional model of car insurance, Safe&Go insures not the vehicle but the person and their mobility, avoiding administrative formalities such as vehicle registration and guaranteeing sustainable and safe mobility.
In 2023, Línea Directa Aseguradora added to its multi-risk insurance "Hogar Despreokupado", a unique cover in Spain that profects homeowners' against the 'legal and economic consequences of illegal occupation of their homes.
The policy, which has been very well received commercially, includes
up to € 10,000 of legal assistance from the company and leggle costs (lawyer, solicitor, expert withess, notary fees, court costs and fees) to get your home back, as well as financial compensation for the cost of repairing the damage and other costs.
The product covers the repair of the property, with the option of the me produced out by Lined Directs tradesmen, with no opiner of ind themselves.
They will also be compensated with € 300 per month for six months for mey wife, electricity and gas bills of their main residence; € 800 per month for six months if they need alternative accommodation. The cover also includes up to € 7,500 for damage to third parties caused by the squatters.
Digitalisation is not only an opportunity to increase the efficiency of all production processes, but also a great opportunity to increase savings in energy resources and to redeploy human capital to valuable functions. For this reason, almost 5 years ago, Línea Directa approved a Digitalisation Plan that has led to great progress in this area.
Currently, 56% of the company's policyholders' car accident claims
are opened through digital channels and 57.2% of tow trucks are requested through the línea Directa app, which means not only a great improvement in customer experience, but also a reduction in the number of calls and the number of calls and the number of calls and the number of calls and the number o
Línea Directa's home customer base is also making progress in going digital, and in the year, 48.2% of claims were opened through digital channels. The company has continued to digitalise its processes and services with the aim of streamlining them through artificial intelligence (AI).
The company is already using WhatsApp as a communication channel with customers, making it easier for them to manage their appointments with the repair shop, request a free replacement car, send photos for damage assessment, request a pick-up and delivery service or even check the status of the repair.
Another way of promoting sustainability is to put the company's knowledge and experience at the service of society as a whole. For this reason, every year, either directly or through Línea Directa Foundation, the company tries to provide information, raise awareness and promote prévention in certain areas, mainly related to health, home and road safety.
At the beginning of the year, Linea Directa Aseguradora presented
the study "STOP INCIVILITY. 'Keyed cars': a look at road vandalism in Spain" which analyses the impact of uncivic behaviour towards other people's vehicles. More than 12 million Spaniards
report that their car has been vandalised, mainly by scratching the paintwork, damaging rear-view mirrors and breaking windows. In
addition, around 850,000 drivers admit to deliberately damaging
another car. The most common reasons are 'personal revenge' because the damaged vehicle was "badly parked" or "because it was new'.
In the second half of the year, Línea Directa Aseguradora published its 16 15 3550 mark 31 milion period.
In the area of health, the company published the situaly "Understanding
or brooding over our emotions. An analysis of the silent strategies that bring us closer to or move us away from emotional welling .
One of the key findings of the report is that rumination, or dwelling on problems, is one of the typical responses to adverse situations that നിയമാനം എന്നാ എന്നാം സാഹ്രമായ പ്രവേശം പ്രവേശം നിരമ്പരിം നിര
നിവ കുട്ടിവേണ്ട സ്വാതന സംഖ്യാപ്പ്
Finally, in the Home segment, the study "From pets to pids: Spain's new
Animal Welfare Law" was published at the end of the year. The study, . എന്നും (Penal Seat Press position of the Amazon of the Andress of the Archives and Septem
Law on pet owners, found hat 3 out of the Annanel Vinsure
and 10% of owners admit animals on occasion.
For Línea Directa Aseguradora, sustainability is currently one of the pillars of its strategy and is promoted transversally in all areas of activity, for which if has its own system of governance overseen by the Board of Directors and the Group's senior management.
The Board of Directors is the body responsible for approving the
Sustaindbility Master Plans and seting metrics, as well
as approving and ensuring compli dimensions, in particular the Sustainability Policy.
To this end, it relies on the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee, which is responsible for overseeing the company's social, environmental and governance practices. The committee also monitors the Group's strategy and Sustainability Plan, assesses its degree of compliance and reviews its policies.
The Sustainability Committee reports to the EC through the People, Sommonions and "countrability" in other the commiss of the heads of the key
meets at least three times a year, is made up of the heads of the key drive compliance with the plan in their area.
A Susainability working group has also been set up, made up of the
heads of the business areas with the greatest influence on sustainability, markaring orgorders of the procr Social lion, The Wocking Group is ded by the Hen, Personal Parties and
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Communication and Sustaindsility corporate and business level, and monitors the targets set out in the Sustainability Plan.
Línea Directa Group carries out a materiality analysis every three years to identity the main environmental, social and governance issues fhat serve as ' a framework for action in the preparation of its
Sustainability Master Plan, which is also drawn up every three years.
This materiality analysis of Línea Directa Group has been carried out based on the weighting of all the ESG issues that are predominant in global frends and commitments, andlyst requirements, reporting
standards and frameworks, as well as stakeholder expectations for the short, medium and long term. In addition, interviews were conducted with the CEO and the Management Committee, which helped to
identify issues of internal relevance.
The results of this exercise were captured in a materiality matrix, which differentiated axes:
In 2023, Línea Directa updated this materiality matrix, taking into account the methodological requirements for materiality analysis in
the new versions of the GRI standards.
The company has used various sources of information to identify and weigh materiality issues. The following sources were consulted in order to identify external materiality issues:
· Reporting norms and standards: Spanish Law 1 1 / 20 18 on
non-financial information and diversity, the Sustainable in the Sustainable (GR), and the materiality map of the Sustainability Accounting Standard Board (SASB)
To complete the external prioritisation, consultations were also held with
various stakeholders, including suppliers, investors and customers.
Having identified all potentially material issues for the company, an internal prioritisation of these issues was developed in consultation with Senior Management, taking into account their perception of the importance of each ESG issue in relation to its impact on the business, people and the planet.
The result was a list of material issues related to the
company's operations that have a significant impact on its performance
and the decisions of its stakehol the company's threeyear Sustainability Plan.
The following matrix shows the most relevant issues for the company and the level of importance given to each issue by external stakeholders, according to the assessment carried out.
| 1 | Fight against climate change and decarbonisation. |
Promote the integration of climate issues into the company's objectives, management and business development. |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Responsible investment | Promote the integration of ESG criteria into the company's investment decision-making. |
| 3 | Diversity and equality | Ensure a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone is and feels treated with respect and tairness. |
| র্য | Sustainable products | Encourage the design and marketing of products that promote the transition to a more sustainable economy. |
| 5 | Ethics, compliance and risk management |
Ensure exemplary behaviour in terms of ethics and compliance by all those who make up Línea Directa and manage risks proactively. |
| 6 | Intormation security | Ensure the security of intrastructure and systems by applying best practices in security and privacy. |
| 7 | Quality and customer satisfaction | Build trusting relationships with customers and ensure a quality experience. |
| 8 | Health, satety and well-being of professionals |
Ensure optimal health, satety and weltare conditions for professionals. |
| 9 | Attraction and loyalty of the best talent | Manage talent responsibly and sypport their development and motivation through attraction and retention policies. |
| 10 | Digitalisation | Focus on etticiency and innovation in business development using digitalisation as a lever. |
| 11 | Responsible supply chain |
Extend the company's ESG commitments to third parties (suppliers, partners, allies, etc.). |
| 12 | Transparency and dialogue with stakeholders |
Set up mechanisms for listening and digiogue, and be transparent both internally and externally. |
| 13 | Environmental management and responsible consumption |
Seek etticiency in the use ot resources and minimise the company's environmental impact. |
| 14 Social contribution | Contribute positively to society through the use of the company's capabilities and response to priority needs. |
The Corporate Risk area regularly analyses the risks that may impact the business, including ESG dimensions. Based on this analysis, an Bomoso, "The company's key risks is made and the corresponding
prevention and mitigation measures are ind the corresponding
prevention and mitigation measures are identified
In this respect, the company has defined the ESG risks and the management model, processes, relevant regulations and the methodology, which is a qualitative assessment that helps to identify, the events that yose the most imminent theat. This methodology is regularly responsible for the risks and the Risk Management department.

Línea Directa Group's ESG risk map is divided into 3 pillars, each of
which contains 5 essential blocks, which in turn are divided into ] ló levels representing the different events included in each category. All of them are linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other reporting frameworks (GRI or Non-Financial Reporting Act 11/2018).
The material issues identified in the analyses of dialogues with stakeholders and consultations on the most relevant issues for the business from an internal perspective show a correlation and alignment with the risks identified in the company's ESG risk map. In fact, the three
most relevant issues identitied in these analyses correspond to risks in the climate dimension (risks 1-4), in diversity and equality (risk 5) and
in responsible investment (risk 12).
| CATEGORY | FACTOR | No. | CAUSES/RISK EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL | Environment and climate change |
Noncompliance with sectoral environmental and/or climate regulations/best practices |
|
| റ] Lack of adaptation of products to the effects of climate change | |||
| Failure to include climate change risks in the estimation of 3 different financial and risk ratios | |||
| Lack of or poor integration of an environmental operational efficiency strategy | |||
| SOCIAL | Employees | s Lack of promotion of diversity and equal opportunities | |
| & Lack of attention to employee development and well-being | |||
| Non-compliance with fundamental human and labour rights | |||
| Customer | 8 Customer experience | ||
| of Lack of or inadequate contribution to the needs of the social environment |
|||
| GOVERNANCE | Relationship with third parties |
10 ESG risks in the supply chain | |
| 1 1 ESG risks in the relationship with other third parties | |||
| 1 2 Failure to make a responsible investment | |||
| Governance, ethics and transparency |
1 31 Inadequate corporate governance structure and practices | ||
| ] 4 Cases of corruption, fraud, bribery and tax noncompliance | |||
| 1 5 Information protection and security | |||
| Weaknesses in communication and relationship with supervisors |
The transition to decarbonisation and climate change has become a global challenge that affects all companies, particularly the financial sector, as it represents an operational risk that has a difect impact on the company's tinancial results. The increase in natural catastrophes due to climate change and the increase in the frequency and severity of catastrophic losses caused by adverse and unpredictable climatic phenomena lead to peaks in cloims and difficulties in managing them
in a timely and efficient manner, which can affect the company's high level of sérvice quality.
In addition to the physical risks of changing weather patterns, transition risks related to market trends, regulation, taxation and reputation need to be considered when aiming to align with the Paris Agreement.
In this sense, the nature of the business impact of this material issue would mainly be the cost of claims related to climate change.
Línea Directa has included in its Sustainability Plan 2023-2025 a roadmap that includes actions to reduce its emissions, mitigate the impact on the business and take advantage of the opporfunity to create new offers that accompany customers and society in the transition to a net-zero economic system.
In order to mitigate the impact of high claims due to adverse and unpredictable weather 'events, the company has specific procedures for managing these claims and a reinsurance programme to cover events above a certain threshold that are not covered by the Insurance Compensation Consortium. Under this type of reinsurance, the cost of a claim in excess of an agreed fixed amount is passed on to the reinsurer.
Línea Directa's adherence to the Task Force on Climate-Related Enout Disclosures in 2022 and the preparation of institution willingness to commit to the inclusion and reporting of metrics and targets for governance, strategy, risk management and climate change opportunities. This process not only enables the development of a strategy to minimise the impact of climate risks, but also helps to identify opportunities to position new products and services in the insurance market.
Línea Directa has a Sustainability Plan directly linked to the company's strategy. As part of this plan, the company analyses and assesses the exposure of the portfolio of active policies in areas particularly affected by climate change in order to anticipate a potential increase in claims for this type of event during the year. Línea Directa therefore has risk mitigation initiatives in place.
With regard to the management of emissions from its operations, Línea Directa has improved the accuracy of its greenhouse gas emissions inventory and set ambitious targets for reducing its carbon footprint and waste management.
Linea Directa is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.
This commitment, included in the Sustainability Plan 2020-2022, hos
been developed in the Sustainability Pl voluntary targets to reduce energy consumption and waste in its operations.
ln integrating material sustainability issues into the company's strategy,
the Board is responsible for approving the Sustaindability Master Proposity, it was
and monitoring decided, in 2023, to link the variable remuneration of the CEO and
the Executive Committee to the achievement of the Sustainability Plan 2023, which includes measures to progress the climate change target, with metrics related to climate change management and decarbonisation. As a result, the annual variable remuneration of the CEO and senior management in 2023 is linked to the longterm interests and sustainability of the company.
This identified problem is a material issue for external stakeholders.
Climate change and decarbonisation affect the
company's operations, the products and services it provides to its customers and its supply chain.
Suppliers consulted as part of the materiality exercise highlighted the tight against climate change and access to renewable energy as priorities in the environmental dimension, given the global trends that
affect them in these areas. Meanwhile, 69% of customers surveyed consider energy efficiency to be a relevant issue and 59% consider
environmental protection and the fight against climate change to be an important aspect.The increase in natural catastrophes due to climate change and the growing frequency and severity of catastrophic losses due to adverse and unpredictablé climatic phenomena are creating situations of particular concern to stakeholders.
Both the social and environmental components are affected by the physical effects of climate change and the constant updating of regulations and standards. The impact of this material issue is considered both positive and negative. In order to calculate the refurn on social investment, a quantitative metric was estimated to serve as a general guideline in understanding monetary relevance of impacts to society. To this end, the social cost of carbon was calculated. At a cost of USD 75 per tonne, according to the MVF's international
cost of USD 75 per tonne, according to the INF's international Línea Directa would generate a social cost of USD 60,810 and the value chain footprint for 2023 would generate USD 6.9 million.
Línea Directa has an investment portfolio of almost € 900 million, consisting mainly of government and corporate bonds (81%) and, to
a lesser extent, equities (7%), investment funds (6%) and real estate (6%).
The company has a Sustainable Investment Policy, which it uses as the starting point in defining the principles and commitments that
integrate environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions.
Moningstar's Sustainalytics tool currently monitors ESS dimensions, the points for the social dimension the enomination of
ESS dimensions, the social dimension the enommy of the for the for the for the for the for the for the management.
The effect of this material issue is a potential impact on the Group in the event of future tinancial market adjustments for assets of companies with exposure to fossil fuels such as coal, oil or gas. As we have seen, the portfolio has very low exposure to these sectors of activity, but there is a need to monitor them and push for accompanying climate change commitments.
This material issue has implications for the company's ESG investment strategy and position on underwriting and investing in coal and oil and gas activities.
In 2024, the Sustainable Investment Policy will be updated to identity new opportunities and clarify time horizon's for possible exclusions and restrictions for those cases that are considered high risk for the company, as well as setting targets in the roadmap towards decarbonisation of thé investment portfolio.
In addition, in 2023, the first TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) report was prepared for approval and publication in 2024, endbling the integration of climate change risks into the company's ESG risk map, including a specific report to assess this potential impact.
Meanwhile, Scope 3 emissions for 2022 were calculated during the
year, covering the 15 GHG Protocol categories (where Category ( 1
and your ( 137358 a result of 197,852 tonnes. This operation will serve as a metric to measure the climate impact of the portfolio's sustainability strategy and will be integrated into the company's emissions reduction and decarbonisation roadmap.
In 2023, the variable remuneration of Identified Staff (consisting of directors, senior executives and employees whose professional
activities have a significant impact on the company's risk profile) included the 2022 Scope 3 Carbon Footprint measurement action, with a focus on the impact on the investment portfolio.
Responsible investment represents both a positive opportunity to create new markets in emerging sectors, and a potential negative impact through the risk of exposure to securities that are not aligned with the environmental objectives developed by the European Commission through the Climate Taxonomy as part of its Sustainable Finance Plan.
Managing the investment portfolio in a sustainable way is in line with the EU's strategy for the environment and society as a whole. Global macro trends, reporting standards, analysts, the UN framework, regulation and stakeholders have all rated this issue as highly relevant.
In order to calculate the return on social investment, a quantifative metric was estimated to serve as a general guideline in understanding monetary relevance of impacts to society. For this purpose, the social cost of carbon has been calculated: 'using the 'INF's International
Minimum Carbon Price (IMCP) of USD 75, the carbon ipotprint of Category 15 would generate a social cost of USD 16.3 million.
The materiality exercise revealed that diversity and equality is the third most important materiality issue for the company. In order to address it, Línea Directa has drawn up a public policy that includes a set of principles and commitments that serve as a statement of its position on the care, promotion and protection of these fundamental" values for society.
Diversity refers to those aspects or characteristics that make each person different and unique. Línea Directa, through a culture of respect for people, is committed to diversity and integrates it in the processes of selection, recruitment, training, promotion and remuneration, taking into account only performance criteria or professional experience when making its professional decisions, in order to avoid any form of discrimination.
Diverse teams provide a competitive advantage by enriching perspectives, tacilitating cost optimisation, better attracting and
managing talent, and increasing the effectiveness of problem-solving decision-making strategies.
A Diversity Committee was set up in 2023 to ensure compliance with the commitments made in the Diversity Policy. The directors who make up the committee are responsible for the areas of: Technical, Portfolio and Office of the General Secretary The role of the committee is to monitor this issue on a regular basis and to analyse the necessary indicators in the application of the Diversity and Inclusion Policy. The Board is responsible for approving and monitoring the level of compliance to ensure that the policy is implemented.
The establishment of the Diversity Advisory Committee and the Diversity Working Group was one of the objectives of the 2023 Sustainability Plan, as a first step in responding to an issue identified as material. The objective was achieved in September with the establishment of the body, as well as its governance, periodicity, composition and functions.
The impact of diversity is positive, as it strengthens cultural values within the organisation, enhances the company's reputation, promotes the attractiveness and retention of talent, and increases employee innovation, productivity and creativity.
The measurement of the return on investment in diversity will always be linked to the value that different actions directly contribute to the bottom line. This requires an understanding of what the strategic objectives of the diversity initiative are. At Línea Directa, Diversity focuses on guaranteeing a respectful and inclusive work environment, in order to promote workforce management that covers both the improvement of employability and talent managgement. Accordingly, the behaviour of indicators related to the workforce will be observed in order to define action plans adapted to each case.
In addition, and because diversity fosters a greater capacity for
innovation by assembling teams with different skills, the relevant ROV metrics will include indicators that measure performance in terms of the number of innovative projects or new products, or performance in terms of the economic benefits derived from these new products.
Global initiatives such as the Global Compact or regulations such as the Non-Financial Reporting and Diversity Act, which requires
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This component impacts the entire operation of the company and the
organisation as it is a transversal value that also affects the perception has an impact on society as a whole.
Línea Directa has been integrating sustainability into its operations and culture for more than 10 years, through various threeyear sustainability plans, with the aim of generating value for the organisation and the different stakeholders identified.
Thanks to this approach to sustainability, Línea Directa has been able to respond more directly and flexibly to the challenges facing the company and society, as well as taking advantage of new business opportunities arising from advances in sustainability.
In this regard, the company has approved its 5th Sustainability Plan, which constitutes the roadmap for the threeyear period 2023-2025 in environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. The vision of the 5th Sustainability Plan is to lead the Línea Directa Group towards sustainable growth, promoting ESG dimensions within the company and positioning its direct model as the best asset for its stakeholders.
The plan consists of almost one hundred actions aimed at achieving a series of objectives detined through the materiality exercise carried out. These objectives include integrating sustainability into product and service innovation, adding value in response to analyst and investor demands for sustainable business, and anticipating compliance with EU sustainability legislation.
In line with the multidisciplinary approach to sustainability, the company has developed the strategic lines of each ESG component according to the material issues identified.
The plan contains fundamental innovations that have enabled the company's strategy to be adapted to the needs arisen after its IPO. The Dow Jones Sustainability Index rating was one of the criteria used to draw up the plan, given the interest shown by investors in the company, invited to participate actively in 2022.
This approach has already started to pay off, with the company achieving a significant 8-póint improvement in performance in 2023 compared to the previous year, providing momentum for the coming years.

Línea Directa Aseguradora's direct business model, with all operations centralised in a single head office, naturally gives the company greater environmental efficiency than its peers.
The Group operates in a key sector for the transition to a low-carbon economy, both as an institutional investor and in its role as an insurer. lt has a fesponsibility towards society's needs in this area. A case in point is, for example, sustainable mobility.
Línea Directa responds to the expectations of its stakeholders through the responsible management of its operations, the innovation of more
sustainable products and services, the responsible management of its value chain and the inclusion of ESG criteria in its investment portfolio.
Three major blocks of action stand out in this component:
Design and development of products and services that promote sustainable mobility practices, improve the liveability and energy
efficiency of homes, and enhance people's well-being and health.
The company has a climate strategy that follows the recommendations of the TCFD'and has defined a roadmap for decarbonising both its own operations and its investment portfolio.
Línea Directa promotes the efficient use of resources by reducing consumption, generating its own renewable energy and systematising waste management.
Línea Directa is aware of its direct impact as an insurer, as a generator of employment and as a social actor. It is a responsible Company, committed to social progress and involved in the communities in which it operates.
The following blocks of action stand out in this component:
The company promotes a just society, responds to the values of equality, diversity and guarantees respect for human rights in its activities and relations with its stakeholders.
· Talent
Línea Directa implements best practices in terms of attraction, loyalty, retention, well-being, diversity, safety and health in the workplace.
The company promotes its social strategy through strategic
alliances, internal programmes and through Línea Directa Foundation, which focuses on road safety. Combating among the company's social priorities.
Governance is a material issue for Línea Directa. The company adopts the recommendations of good governance with' regard to the composition and functioning of its governance system and continuously and progressively
incorporates the best practices identified in the market.
Ethics, good governance and values are an integral part of the Group's culture and are applied in all its activities and processes, such as transparent reporting, responsible marketing of its products, financial investment strategy and supply chain management.
Four main areas of action stand out in this component:
The company promotes responsible and accessible marketing of products and services and customer care to the highest quality standards.
· Corporate governance, ethics, compliance and risks
Línea Directa strengthens its corporate governance model, develops an
ESG risk map and has an ethics channel and a human rights due diligence process.
· Responsible investment and underwriting
The company's investment strategy is in line with ESG best practices
and is in support of its efforts towards sustainable underwriting.
• Responsible supply chain
The company integrates ESG supply chain management into its operations.
The 5th Sustaindbility Plan 2023-2025 for the year 2023 has
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The company has positioned its sustainability strategy in line with the with the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
Línea Directa plays different roles in its business development: as an insurer, as an employer, as an investor, as a partner and collaborator, and as a social actor.
ln this way, the Linea Directa Aseguradora Group has incorporated
objectives that make a fundamental contribution to 12 of the 17 SDS
as part of its Sustainability Plan for
Línea Directa Group is firmly committed to health, offering society the encouraging its policyholders to adopt healthy habits in terms of
exercise, diet and sleep. In addition, in 2023 it carried out a mental health study as a sign of its commitment to people's emotional wellbeing and to raise awareness of a problem that affects many people in Spain: mental health.
Meanwhile, Línea Directa Group has an ambitious social plan for its
employees, which includes several lines of action: prevention, physical activity, rest, emotional wellbeing, financial wellbeing and nutrition.
It is worth highlighting its work in reducing the number of deaths and injuries caused by road accidents through the promotion of road safety by Línea Directa Foundation, as well as the dissemination of
information to raise awareness of possible risks in the home, helping to protect against them.
Aware of the importance of training and learning in improving and accelerating the transformation process in which it is immersed, the company has put in place a powerful training programme based on a
selflearning model for its professionals, with the aim of responding to date at all times and advancing their development with tailor-made programmes.
Línea Directa Foundation is also committed to training different awareness campaign was conducted at the company's facilities for its more than 2,300 professionals.
Diversity, equality and inclusion are part of the company's culture, ensuring equal opportunities regardless of gender, race, religion or nationality.
The company has a Human Rights Policy and a Diversity and
Equality Policy, which was stengthened with the creation of the
Diversity Advisory Committee in 2023.
In recent years, Línea Directa Group has installed solar panels to generate its own electricity at its main work centres. Currently, 9%
of the energy consumed, including gas, is self-generated.
In addition, all the electricity consumed by Línea Directa's facilities comes from renewable sources.
The company is firmly committed to creating guality jobs and developing internal talent, as described in the Talent Management section of this report.
Through Línea Directa Foundation, the company also carries out various activities to promote entrepreneurship and help communities prosper.
Línea Directa Group also wants to be at the forefront of the digitalisation of the insurance sector, facilitating society's transition to an increasingly digital world. To this end, if develops channels
and
to climate change, in line with the recommendations of the TCFD.
products to promote digitalisation and participates in technological innovation forums.
Similarly, the company's innovative spirit is committed to intraentrepréneurship, through training and focus groups made up of professionals from different sectors, as well as collaboration with start professionals from alliers beens, as won as condisonalism will bland.
ups specialising in road safety, through the "Entrepreneurs Award"
organised by Linea Directa Foundation
Línea Directa Group is also committed to the social and economic inclusion of all people, especially people with disabilities, mainly through corporate volunteering, collaborating with various NGOs. The company also pays particular attention to talent development, ensuring that there is no discrimination.
Línea Directa Group is strongly committed to new forms of mobility
and, in particular, to sustainable mobility. The Safe&Go insurance product and the work carried out in recent years by Línea Djrecta Foundation to raise awareness of road satety are two examples of Línea Directa's ambition in this area.
Línea Directa Group is not an intensive producer of waste, but it has established policies and objectives for the correct management of waste and its subsequent recycling.
In 2023, the Advanced Repair Centres renewed their 'Towards Zero Waste' certification, which requires that more than 60% of waste generated be recovered or sent for recycling.
The section on the environmental component details the actions that Línea Directa is taking to combat climate change, as well as the progress made in 2023 in identifying risks and opportunities related
The company carries out various tasks in this area, such as calculating ifs carbon footprint, setting reduction targets and offsetting its Scope 1 and 2 emissions. The company has also developed an ISO 14001 certified environmental management
system and an ISO 50001 certified energy efficiency system.
Línea Directa Group contributes to this objective by pursuing the integrity and enforcement of compliance with the relevant regulations and disseminating them in its partnerships with external organisations and institutions.
Through Línea Directa Foundation, it regularly studies and analyses aspects of driving behaviour, contributing to the dissemination and awareness of the importance of sate driving.
The Foundation also has an active platform for reporting the most dangerous points on Spanish roads. Every two years Línea Directa prepares the Fraud Barometer, to prevent, defect and prosecute these bad practices with signiticant consequences for customers and for society in general.
Línea Directa Group believes that it is essential to work with other entities, so it develops alliances with other companies in order to achieve its business objectives. It also carries out many other corporate volunteering activities in collaboration with specialised
organisations and NGOs. Moreover, the company forms alliances with institutions and organisations with which it'shares common interests.
Finally, each year it holds the Collaborators Award, to recognise the best suppliers for the work they do for the company.
Due to its status as a listed company from 2021, Línea Directa Group has carried out a review of its strategy with stakeholders for 2023. This has been an opportunity to redefine stakeholders and specify how the company, will respond to their expectations in its relationship with them. This rélationship basically takes two forms, economic or social, either derived from the company's products and services, or from its performance in different areas, and should be understood in a bidirectional way. Compliance and varying degrees of stakeholder engagement can affect the achievement of the company's strategic objectives, hence their relevance.
As a result, the stakeholder map was updated in 2023, prioritisation was reviewed and a strategy and commitments in relation to stakeholders were established. In addition, dialogue and communication channels have been updated to ensure better listening and adaptation to stakeholder expectations in order to facilitate success in achieving various medium- and long-term objectives.
The stakeholder map has been developed using our own methodology, based on analysis supported by a range of sources. It also draws on the expertise of the Sustainability Working Group and the Sustainability Committee. The methodology includes the following actions:
The company has developed a more comprehensive list of stakeholders than in previous years in order to better differentiate their expectations and be able to shape its communication objectives accordingly. Prioritisation techniques were applied to this set in order to distinguish their degree of importance to the business and thus define a more efficient strategy.
The following criteria have been taken into account in prioritising stakeholders:
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| STATIFICIDES? | TESPONSIBILE AREAS | COMMUNICATION CHANNELS |
|---|---|---|
| SHAREHOlders | Finance Office of the General Secretury |
AGAA / CNNY Wellstile / Investor Kelesticas / Corporate Wellige / Results presentation / |
| DONAL | Quality & Gustomer Experience Marketing Portinia Services and Benafits |
Castomer Surveys / Commercial / Max Media / Wabibs Ciritimer Apps City Carane |
| RECLUBICATIONS & PUBLIC ADIMINISTRATION |
Offica of the Cresurity accretory | Reports / Mastings |
| SUPPLERS | Finence Services and Baselly |
Web Parchesing / Portul for Collebordlors / Contacts with Paperioris. |
| CHOOLES | People, Communication and Systemploy |
Wrignal Marichannel |
| MEDIA | Paople, Convenication tool Semanonalisms. |
Corporate Wabsite / Pheta Office / Basalts presentiplions / Pleas (1) Seriences |
| ANALYSIS | 11500(k Feople, Communication and Sestomobility |
Investor Religilors / Non-Financial Information / Collegendomisting |
| PROFIT ADVISORS | Offica of the Gieneral Secretary | Reports / Mastings |
| OPINION LEADERS | Pacqile, Communication and Suspensively |
Mirs Mader / Social Madio |
| CONSUMER ASSOCIATIONS |
Quellty & Collimat Expanience Faceba, Communication Allelowsping live |
Email / Sorveys and queelcompany |
| TRADE UNIONS | People, Communication and Justomomally |
Matichannal |
| BUSINESS SCHOOLS |
Fresple, Connecunication and Sustomopilly |
of Moltichaers / lines Director / pandofon |
| 1-880 360 360 300 | Pacella, Commanication and Sustomobility |
Mallia Public Patel Parti |
| UNEVERSITIES | Fropia, Communication and Justomatility |
Maltichophil |
| NOIN CUSTOMERS | Makeling | Clear / experior / May media / RESS |
| POTENTIAL EMPLOYGES | Faople, Construction and Junkshobilly |
/ прим восос / вездни вликово / Forums / Presentations |
| SOCIETY | People, Communication and Sustainobility |
Corporate website / Sacial Media / Blogs / Unea Directo 7 oundation |
Linea Directa has set up a corporate governance system based on compliance with current legislation, the recommendations of the Code of Good Governance of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) and the best market practices expected by investors, analysts and proxy advisors.
The Board of Directors of Línea Directa Aseguradora is the supreme body responsible for the management, direction and representation of the company, and has the power to adopt all corporate resolutions, with the exception of those powers reserved for the Annual General Meeting.
In particular, the Board determines the overall policies and strategies of the company, including approving, setting and monitoring strategy and risk management policies, including those relating to sustainability and climate change.
The Board of Directors has two advisory committees that report to the Board, make proposals to it and advise it on decision-making.
· The Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee is the committee responsible for, among other things, monitoring the company's sustainability strategy, practices and targets, assessing their level of compliance and reviewing the company's sustainability policy. It also ensures that Linea Directa's environmental and social practices are in line with the policies and strategy approved by the Board of Directors.
In this context, the Committee has reviewed and proposed to the Board for approval the current Sustainability Plan
2023-2025, as well as all policies related to sustainability and climate change management.
This Committee is also responsible for determining the guidelines, criteria and reference standards that should
govern the preparation of the Non-Financial Information Statement, as well as for reviewing, validating and reporting to the Board of Directors on this process, considering the Committee and the completeness of the information.
In general, the Committee should review and validate the sections of any corporate report, whether mandatory or voluntary, that have an impact on sustainability.
Likewise, the Committee is the body competent to determine the remuneration of the members of the Board, Senior Management and those persons who carry out professional activities that may have a relevant impact on the assumption of risks by the company. In this context, the Committee has proposed to the Board the inclusion of ESG metrics for the accrual of the Executive Committee's variable remuneration, both short and long term.
· The Audit and Compliance Committee is responsible, mong other things, for knowing, monitoring and evalualing
among other things, for knowing, monitoring and evalualing and management systems (including operational, technological, cybersecurity, legal, social, environmental, political and réputational´risks), reviewing the company's risk map and making proposals to the Board.
The Committee has reviewed the company's ESG risk map, which includes risks related to climate change, and proposed its approval and monitoring by the Board.
With regard to the oversight of ESG risks, the Board's Rules and Regulations provide for the possibility of joint meetings of the two Committees at the request of the Chairman or a majority of its members.
With respect to the Non-Financial Information Statement, this Committee is responsible for overseeing the preparation and presentation process, reporting on this process and on the
completeness and clarity of the information to the Committee.
It also manages the process of selecting and engaging the financial information and proposes its appointment to the Board.
The day to day management of the company and the
implementation of the decisions taken by the Board of Directors are the responsibility of the internal organisation led by the Chief
Executive Officer and the Executive Committees.
The main committees involved in monitoring and controlling the organisation's sustainability activities and risks are as follows:
There are also other specific committees that analyse, monitor and, where appropriate, take decisions on specific issues, such as the
sustainability of an investment (discussed by the lnyestment Committee) or the sustainable characteristics of a product (discussed
by the Product Approval and Monitoring Committee).
Internally, the Corporate Risk department is responsible for the overall management, control and supervision of the risks that the Group may incur in (including ESG and climate change risks), after identifying these risks together with the other corporate areas. To this end, it draws up the risk map, coordinates the necessary prevention and and open to how map coordinate more of modesaly to the Audi and Management Policy.
The People, Communication and Sustainability department is responsible for proposing, coordinating and implementing the necessary measures in the organisation to implement the sustainability strategy set by the Board of Directors and reports to the In this way, it promotes the integration of ESG criteria across all areas of the business.
There is also a Sustainability Working Group with representation ﺍﻟﺴﺎﺩ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺎﺣﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺎﺣﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺎﺣﺔ ﺍﻟﺴﻴﺎﺳﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺎﺣﺔ
ﺍﻟﻤﻮﺿﻮﻋﺎﺕ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻘﻠﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺎﺣﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺎﺣﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻮﻯ ﺍ monitoring of the status of the actions underway in the Sustainability Plan.
The information contained in the Non-Financial Information Statement covers Línea Directa Group as a whole, which is made up of the following companies:
The Parent Company, Línea Directa Aseguradora S.A., Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros.
Subsidiaries wholly owned by the Parent Company:

"Jexónguido en dicienbre de 2022).
*LDAReparaciones, S.L.U. (terminated in December 2023)
The share capital is distributed as follows:
| Share capital | € 43,536,673.60 |
|---|---|
| No. of shares | 1,088,416,840 ordinary shares |
| Nominal value | € 0.04 PER SHARE |
| No. of voting rights | 1,088,416,840 votes (1 share = 1 vote) |
Linea Directa Aseguradord's shares have been listed on the Spanish
stock market (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Vencia Single Same
Fachanges) since 29 Apri
| SIGNIFICANT HAREHOLDERS | % ownership in share capital (direct and indirect) |
|---|---|
| Cartival, S.A. | 19.90% |
| Bankinter, S.A. | 17.42% |
| Fernando Masaveu | 5.38% |
| Norbel | 5.00% |
| Lazard Asset Management | 3.20% |
| Brandes | 3.00% |
| Candriam | 2.72% |
| Fidelity International Limited | 2.02% |
| OTHER | |
| Treasury shares | 0.03% |
| Members of the board with non- significant holding |
0.05% |
| Free Float | 41.28% |
The main governing bodies of Línea Directa Aseguradora are as to lows:
The Annual General Meeting is the sovereign body of the company.
The duly convened shareholders meet there to deliberate and decide, by the majorities required in each case, on the matters in which they have a say.
The Regulations of the Annual General Meeting, approved in March 2021 on the occasion of the company's IPO, govern all aspects
relating to the holding and conduct of the Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting was held on 30 March 2023 to
discuss matters relating to financial year 2022. The shareholders of the company met both in person and online, with a quorum of
77.81%.
The Meeting adopted key agreements of both tinancial and nonfinancial nafure:
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· approval, with more than 99%Vvoting in favour.
The company offers the possibility of consulting the details of the links of the section of the corporate website.
Shareholders were able to participate in the Annual General Meeting either in person or by electronic voting and proxy. From the
moment the meeting was convened, the Electronic Shareholders'
Forum was made available to them as required by regulations, and the event was broadcast live on the company website, as
recommended by the CNMV's Good Governance Code and the sustainable event by an independent expert of recognised prestige who audits compliance with good sustainability practices.
As sef forth in the Bylaws, the Board of Directors shall have a minimum of
5 and a maximum of 15 directors. As at the seport, the Board
of Directors of the company is compose
| BOARD MEMBERS | LEGAL CATEGORY | POSITION |
|---|---|---|
| Altonso Botín Sanz de Sautuola y Naveda |
Proprietary (represented | Chairman |
| Patricia Ayuela de Rueda | Executive | Chief Executive Officer |
| Fernando Masaveu Herrero | Proprietary | Member |
| Ana María Plaza Arregui | Independent | Member |
| Elena Otero-Novas Miranda | Independent | Member |
| Rita Estevez Luaña | Independent | Member |
| John de Zulueta Greenebaum | Independent | Member |
Pablo González-Schwitters is the non-director Secretary of the Board of Directors.
The Board of Directors is the body responsible for the administration, governance and representation of the company, in and and and Regulations of the Board of Directors. The Bylaws and
the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Directors. The latter have committees.
In 2023, 10 Board meetings were held, with an attendance rate of 100%. The main measures enacted by the Board of Directors include the following:
The term of office of the members of the Board of Directors is four years and they may be reelected for the same term.
The level of attendance per director in 2023 was as follows:
| DIRECTOR | Board of Directors |
Audit and Compliance Committee |
Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Altonso Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y Naveda |
10/10 | 7/7 | 6/6 |
| Patricia Ayuela de Rueda | 10/10 | N/A | N/A |
| Fernando Masaveu Herrero | 10/10 | N/A | N/A |
| Ana María Plaza Arregui | 10/10 | 7/7 | N/A |
| Elena Otero-Novas Miranda | 10/10 | 7/7 | N/A |
| Rita Estevez Luaña | 10/10 | N/A | ୧/୧ |
| John de Zulueta Greenebaum | 10/10 | N/A | 6/6 |
The purpose of the Board of Directors Selection Policy is to establish the principles, procedures and criteria that the Board of related to the appointment, reelection or succession of members of
the Board of Directors, all in accordance with the applicable regulations and best corporate governance practices.
One of the main aims of this policy is to create a body whose composition ensures a healthy diversity of opinions, perspectives, experiences and professional backgrounds. his includes an appropriate level of gender diversity, with a preferential target for board membership of the under-represented gender and a number of female directors constituting at least 40% of its members, in addition to other types of diversity, including race or ethnicity,
nationality or cultural origin, subject to the vital principle of merit and suitability.
Another vital principle of the Director Selection Policy is that the number of independent directors constitute a sufficient majority of
the Board and that the number of executive directors be kept to the minimum necessary.
At the date of this report, the following data on the independence and diversity of the Board of Directors are noteworthy and exceed the ratios recommended by the CNMV's Code of Good Governance:
| Percentage of independent directors |
57% | |
|---|---|---|
| 57% on the Board - Included in | ||
| Percentage of women | the Ibex Gender Equality Index | |
| 58% of the Management Team | ||
| Skills matrix | Yes | |
| Nationalities | Two | |
| Average age | 55 years (from 47 to 75 years of age) | |
| VI |
As recommended by the CNNN's Code of Good Govenance and
required by the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Chinesd Direct Direct Disch and
the evaluation of the function o governance consultancy).
The main conclusions of the evaluation are included in the Annual Corporate Governance Report, which is published on the company's
website and on the website of the CNMV.
Directors' remuneration in 2023 has been determined in accordance with the provisions of applicable law, the company's Bylaws and the
Directors' Remuneration Policy.
At the Annual General Meeting held on 30 March 2023, the following three resolutions relating to the remuneration of the Chief
Executive Officer were approved by more than 99% of the votes cast:
The Directors' Remuneration Policy is valid until 2025 and is permanently available on the corporate website.
In addition, the Annual General Meeting approved the 2022
Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration on a consultative basis,
with more than 94% of shareholders voting in favour, demonstrating their support for the practical application of the policy.
The Remuneration Policy is inspired and underpinned by the following principles:
The remuneration system is generally composed of the following components:
· In their capacity as Directors, and in connection with their supervisory and collection increating functions,
the members of the Bolled of Directions receive a functions,
the members of the Bonce of the doming, meter of the booms are members.
The maximum annual remuneration of all directors in their capacity as such shall not exceed € 1,500,000.
· As an Executive Director, the Chief Executive Officer also receives an annual remuneration consisting of a fixed part and a variable part depending on the achievement of predetermined objectives.
In relation to annual variable remuneration, the following good governance practices have been applied since
2022:
· not yet vested in long-term savings schemes and amounts paid as a result of the non-competition clause.
lh addition, a modification linked to the "poy for performance"
principle has been infroduced for he year 2023, consing nasting nasting nastronomian of of com/... wilipbying the remineration by degree of compliance with
these oply, mitves – a factor of between 0.5 mall 1.5, accomments
compliance scale approved by the Board o proved the Annual General Meeting approved with more
than 99% of the votes cast, that the adjusting indicator be derived
from the Group's consolidated profit before tax.
The Chief Executive Officer's variable remuneration will in all cases
be subject to the adjustments provided for in the Policy (including the
The Chief Executive Officer also participates in the extraordinary variable remuneration plan in shares approved in 2021 for the members of the company's management team, as a result of the listing of líned Direct's shares on the stock exchange, and in the
longterm variable remuneration plan 2023-2025, povable in
shares of the company and in cash, approved by th General Meeting.
With regard to social wellness systems, the CEO is the beneficiary of a longterm defined benefit savings system and maintains these rights.
recognised in a collective unit linked life insurance policy, arranged by Línea Directa Aseguradora.
The details of this remuneration and the conditions governing its
collection and the in the Annual Report on Directors
Remuneration 2023, which is published on the company's
The Board of Directors has two advisory committees:
The Audit and Compliance Committee, made up of the tollowing members:
| Chairwoman Ana María Plaza Arregui |
Independent |
|---|---|
| Elena Otero-Novas Miranda Member |
Independent |
| Altonso Botín-Sanz de Sautuola Member y Naveda |
Proprietary |
| Pablo González-Schwitters Grimaldo |
Non-board Secretary |
|---|---|
| --------------------------------------- | --------------------- |
| Percentage of independent directors | 67% |
|---|---|
| Percentage of women | 67% |
| Number of meetings in 2023 | 7 |
| Attendance ratio | 100% |
The members of the Audit and Compliance Committee as a whole,
and in particular its Chairman, have been appointed on the basis of their knowledge and experience in accounting, auditing and risk management, both financial and nonfinancial. Comprehensive information about the Committee's members can be found on the corporate website.
The Audit and Compliance Committee's main responsibilities include the following:
On the occasion of the convening of the AGM, the annual report
of the Committee on its activities during 2023 was made
available to shareholders on the company's webs
GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
The Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate
Governance Committee, made up of the following members:
| MEMBER | POSITION | LEGAL CATEGORY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John de Zulueta Greenebaum | Chairman | Independent | |
| Rita Estevez Luaña | Member | Independent | |
| Altonso Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y Naveda |
Member | Proprietary | |
| Pablo González-Schwitters Grimaldo |
Non-board Secretary | ||
| Percentage of independent directors | 67% | ||
| Percentage of women | 33% | ||
| Number of meetings in 2023 | ર્ભ | ||
| Attendance ratio | 100% |
The Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee's main responsibilities include the following:
· Reviewing and validating the relevant sections of any corporate report, whether mandatory or voluntary, that relates to sustainability.
On the occasion of the convening of the AGM, the annual report of the Shifts Souther of the Somming of the Arman Topan of Mo
Committee on its activities during 2023 was made available to
shareholders on the company's website
Línea Directa Aseguradora has the following executive bodies:
Executive committee and Steering committee, consisting of all members
of the management team, which as of February 2024 are as follows:
| MEMBER | POSITION | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Ayuela de Rueda | Chiet Executive Officer | ||
| Pablo González-Schwitters | General Secretary | ||
| Carlos Rodríguez Ugarte | Chief Financial Officer | ||
| Diego Ferreiro Sánchez | Commercial Director | ||
| Isabel Guzmán Lillo | Head of Services and Benefits | ||
| Mar Garre del Olmo | Head of People, Communications and Sustainability | ||
| Eva del Mazo Fernández | Portfolio Director | ||
| Olga Moreno Sanguino* | Head of Quality and Customer Experience | ||
| Ana Sánchez Galán | Head of Technology | ||
| Antonio Valor García | Head of Marketing | ||
| Juan José Álvarez Fernández | Chief Technical Officer | ||
| Inmaculada Aldea Málaga | Chief Risk Officer |
* Head of Health until February 2024, when the functions of the segment were integrated into other areas.
The main task of the Executive committee is the weekly control and active monitoring of the business and its key indicators, as well as the progress of the business plan as approved by the Board of Directors.
The Executive committee decides on the main issues of the company and on initiatives and projects of special interest.
The Projects committee, made up of the abovementioned members of the management team and the Head of Digital Transformation, is responsible for monitoring strategic projects requiring IT development and determining their prioritisation according to the status of
compliance with the business plan.
The Reserves and Claims committee is a body for information,
discussional decisionmoliny in all assess delevinded by Management
management in commist in comisis collections o
The Investment committee, composed of the Chief Executive Officer,
the Chief Financial Officer and the Heads of Investment and daily management of investments is carried out in accordance with the investment objectives and policies set by the Board of Directors. This
committee reports to the Board of Directors at least on a quarterly basis.
The Standing Risk committee is responsible for facilitating ans
monitoring the implementation of effective risk magement proses headed by the Tiedd of Colporale Risk and Complises file Heads of
Management and Internal Reporting, Data Quality, Risk
Management and Internal Control, Re
Product Approval and Monitoring committee, which ensures compliance with the product control and governance policy.
lt is made up of the Head of Marketing, the Chief Technical Officer, the
General Secretary, the Chief Risk Officer, the Chief Financial Officer
and the Chief Commercial Offi
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compliance with the commitments made in the Diversity Policy.
The Group's internal regulations, and in particular its corporate more overy of minine regulared, actions and practices set on in in
the applicable regulations, the Code of Ethics or in vgrious guides and recommendations for good practice of various kinds. Th this general principles and criteria for the management of the Group's key organisational areas and risks.
Throughout this report, reference is made to vorious policies
applicable in different areas (Risk Management, Financial and Transal and Trans main policies that, among others, contribute to sustainable governance:
The details of the above policies, as well as all the internal regulations adopted by Línea Directa Group that form the basis of its corporate governance system, can be consulted on the company's website.
Professional ethics, together with good corporate governance and
Línea Directa Aseguradora's values, are essential to he company's
culture and the fundamental
Línea Directa Group is committed to maintaining and promoting strong ethical principles that guarantee compliance with the law and the trust of customers, shareholders, employees, suppliers and other stakeholders.
The Code of Ethics of Línea Directa Group sets out to establish the general guidelines that should govern the conduct of employees of
Línea Directa Aseguradora S.A. and its subsidiaries, in the performance of their duties and in their commercial and professional relations, in accordance with the laws and ethical principles of the
company. The values contained in this Code of Ethics are the basic principles which underpin the commitments made by Línea Directa 'Aseguradora to their shareholders, partners, customers, suppliers, employees and communities.
The Code of Ethics is the main axis for the development of corporate values and contains the models and guidelines of behaviour to be Theose and Sommisms in Strong Sensons on benefits and dissemming as as
to all the organisation's employees. It specifies and dissemming of Línea Directa Aseguradora as set out by its highest governing body and its management. The Code was approved by the Board of Directors in January 2011, updated in October 2018 and revised in 2021 to implement the necessary amendments relating to its newly acquired status as a listed company.
Línea Directa Aseguradora's Code of Ethics includes commitments to environmental and social issues, respect for human rights, the fight against corruption and bribery, equal treatment and opportunities.
and non-discrimination. The Code is not intended to cover all situations that may arise in the course of professional activity, but rather to establish guiding principles and minimum standards of
behaviour that should guide the people who make up Línea Directa in their professional activities.
Its scope extends to all subsidiaries of Línea Directa Aseguradora and their employees and managers in the performance of their duties and responsibilities and in all professional areas in which they represent the company. Meanwhile, línea Directa Foundation
adopted its own Code of Ethics in November 2019, which essentially follows the same general principles.
Línea Directa Aseguradora also has a Code of Conduct for Suppliers to which all collaborators must adhere.
All Group employees receive training on the Code of Ethics upon
ioining the Group, which is regularly reinforced with various training and informative activities. The Tatest employee survey on the degree of knowledge and acceptance of the Code of Ethic's and the Efhics Channel, conducted in 2023, showed very positive results, with 96% stating that they take the company's ethical principles into account when making decisions related to their work.
The Code of Conduct for Suppliers develops the principles set out in the Code of Ethics of Línea Directa Group, and applies to its relations with suppliers. It also incorporates principles contained in other documents or standards, such as the Sustainability Policy or the Human Rights Policy, through which Línea Directa undertikes to
integrate the principles of responsibility and sustainability in the management of its supply chain.
A new version of the Code of Conduct for Suppliers, aligned with ESG risk commitments, was approved in January 2023.
The new Code of Conduct for Suppliers incorporates a number of measures to improve due diligence in the company's supply chain in areas such as 'environment, health and safely. To this end, sections
"Respect for people" and "Respect for the environment" have been developed to integrate the principles of responsibility and
sustainability in the management of the supply chain.
Compliance with this document is mandatory for all bidders in procurement processes and is included in all commercial contracts, so that all linea Directa suppliers are obliged to comply with it,
subject to proportionality depending on the supplier. In addition, 228 employees with regular contact with suppliers, received training
on the Code of Conduct for Suppliers, and all new recruits received training on the Code of Ethics as they joined the company.
In 2023, as part of the company's commimment to responsible Good Practices on Transparency in Insurance Marketing, which deals with the general principles that should govern the marketing of insurance by insurance companies in any form of sale.
Línea Directa Group has an Internal Information System, the Ethics Channel, which allows any employee to report, with the necessary guarantees, any irregularity delected in relation to the Code of
Ethics, the Code of Conduct for Suppliers, or any other violation of current legislation, as well as to ask questions about its application.
The general principles and procedures governing the management of
the Ethical Chamel are set our in the Ethical Chamad Chamad Champel Champel
20 April 2023, the rules or an act contrary to the rules, can report it with the necessary guarantees.In 2023, 20 communications were received through the Ethics Channel, of which 5 were investigated in accordance with the procedure set out in the Ethics Channel policy, including one case of harassment, which was investigated in accordance with the (Cashen)
The Ethics Manager completed his review and took the appropriate action. Both the Ethical Channel and the Policy are accessible on Línea Directa Aseguradora's corporate website.
The Tax Strategy of Línea Directa Group, approved by the Board of objectives, principles, good tax practices and the monitoring and control of tax risks in the organisation, always with the aim_of ensuring responsible compliance with tax regulations. The Tax Strategy encompasses all the companies that make up the Group. It is published on the Group's website and is promoted in accordance with its social relevance, the interests of its stakeholders, the business strategies of its companies and the trust of the communities in which it operates. Línea Directa Aseguradora promotes a climate of goodwill, transparency, cooperation and reciprocity in its relations with tax authorities.
The Board of Directors of Linea Directo Assguradora also approved
the Groups Corporate Tax Policy in 2020, which was responses
and updated in April 2022 - and in a and the Tax Advisory department.
The main objective of this policy is to establish the principles and the system of rules of action and tax conduct that govern the activity of the Group's companies, as well as to determine the control elements that make it possible to prevent the commission of tax offences.
This Policy forms part of the Fiscal Risk Management and Control System in order to assess these types of risks in a responsible manner and based on set criteria, thereby preventing and reducing the risks and allowing it to define, review and achieve its tax compliance objectives.
The Audit and Compliance Committee, in accordance with the control and management system. In addition, as part of the a
supervisory functions of the Board of Directors, the Tax Advisory department reports once a year on tax contributions, on the main tax issues arising during the year and on the main matters affecting the Group, Including ongoing proceedings and that could affect business targets.
The company is committed To promoting the good tax practices
described in its strategy with the aim of reducing tax risks and
accembed in in its shalls of the Sim of Touoching for housens of the
These good proctices include Group's willingness assisting in the detection, investigation and resolution of fraudulent practices.
Since 2021, Línea Directa Group has adhered to the Code of Good Tax Practices promoted by the Spanish government. The code includes recommendations to ensure legal certainty in the application of the tax system, mutual cooperation based on good
faith and legitimate trust, and the application of responsible tax policies under the oversight of the Boards of Directors. Línea Directa Group is also represented in the UNESPA Tax
Commission, as well as in other tax forums of interest to the sector.
Neither the company nor its subsidiaries have a presence or activity in countries classified as tax havens, as stated in the company's Tax Strategy and Policy.
Línea Difecta Group has not received any public subsidies or aid during 2023. No subsidies or aid was received in 2022 either.
| COMPANY COUNTRY |
MAIN ACTIVITY | Number of employees |
Net furnover by | Profit/(loss) before tax (k€) |
Corporate income tax payable (k€) |
Corporate income | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | |||
| Spain | Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A. |
Insurance agents and brokers |
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| Línea Directa Asistencia, S.L.U. |
Activities related to transport by land |
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| Centro Avanzado de Reparaciones (CAR), S.L.U. |
Motor vehicle maintenance & repair |
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| Club Más Moto, S.L.U. |
Other associated activities Not included elsewhere |
2,500 | 2,505 | 926,266 | 959,872 | 83,531 | -6,580 | 19,235 | -2,157 | -6,255 | -2,550 | |
| Ambar Medline, S.L.U. |
Insurance agents and brokers |
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| LDActivos, S.L.U. | Renting of property tor own account |
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| LDA Reparaciones , S.L.U. |
Other associated activities Not included elsewhere |
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| Portugal | Línea Directa Aseguradora, S.A. |
Insurance agents and brokers |
0 | O | 80 | 87 | 31 | 33 | O | O | O | 0 |
| TOTAL | 2,500 | 2,505 | 926,346 | 959,959 | 83,562 | -6,547 | 19,235 | -2,157 | -6,255* | -2,550** |
* helves the Corporate hoone Tox port in 2022 as well as the Spanish Tox Agency AEAT) in relation to the Carporate hocne Tox for the years 2020 and 2221, estiling in
a negat
**Includes the Corporate Income Tax refunded in 2023 in relation to the Corporate Income Tax for the year 2022.
*** No actual opening in Portugal
**** The 2022 data has been restated under the IFRS17 accounting standard.
Línea Directa Group's crime prevention model is founded on the tollowing bodies:
All Línea Directa Group companies and, specifically, all persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Línea Directa Group has key internal rules on which the internal control and crime prevention structure is based, among which the tollowing stand out:
Línea Directa Group is firmly committed to complying with all the
rules for preventing and combating corruption, as set out in the
organisation's Code of
This commitment extends to all the organisation's employees,
managers and directors, as well as to all the company's stakeholders.
The company approved an Anti-Corruption Policy in 2021, which
was updated and replaced by the Integrity Policy approved on 222
January 2024. Through its Integrity Policy, reaffirms its commitment to zero tolerance towards any form of corruption and, to this end, develops a set of principles that establish the framework for action to ensure strict compliance with the regulations on the prevention and combating of fraud and corruption, as well as the monitoring of the highest standards of integrity in so for and activity. One of the most important measures of this Asseguradord's policy regarding gifts and presents from third parties.
Anything, that does not meet the requirements of this procedure in year.
There were no significant allegations of corruption and bribery in
2023 or 2022.
Línea Directa Group is not a mandatory subject in relation to the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, as
established in Article 2 of Law 1072010 of 29 April, as it operates in the Non-Life insurance business, so it is not relevant to elaborate on this issue.
Linea Directa Group scrupulously respects the provisions of the
General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and Guarantees of Digital Rights in its relations with its customers, employees and suppliers, as well as in the confidentiality of its operations.
The organisation has a Data Protection and Governance Framework, a dedicated team and a data protection officer. It also has a Privacy Policy whose main line of action is the adequate protection of customers' personal and confidential data. All Linea Directa Group employees must ensure compliance with the general
principles of action in this area, as set out in the General Data Protection Regulation.
Línea Directa Group, as the responsible party, complies with the Transparency Principle, informing customers, employees and suppliers of the processing of personal data that it carries out, the legitimate bases of the different processing operations, where and how to exercise their rights of access, rectification, cancellation, opposition, portability and restriction of the recipients of their data, and how to contact the Data Protection Officer. The Group also ensures at all times that personal and transaction data are
transmitted through appropriate, reliable and secure channels, preserving their integrity and confidentiality. The company has put in place a procedure for awarding and contracting with suppliers, modifying the clauses and progressively regularising the contracts in torce.
Meanwhile, all employees are expected to attend a compulsory course on privacy and data protection, and all contracts include a clause with basic information on data processing and where to obtain_more detailed information on the processing carried out by Línea Directa Group.
During 2023, the Data Protection Office updated its training content, particularly reinforcing content regarding its principles and the exercise of rights, among other issues.
As part of this update, members of the Data Protection Office team have been actively involved in this training and have recorded employee videos with the aim of explaining the regulations to everyone in the company. These training videos cover topics of
particular inferest, such as some of the relevant resolutions issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency and other regulatory bodies.
Similarly, in 2023, the Data Protection Office team held several training sessions for the main persons responsible for the processing of the company's personal data, in order to detail, explain and clarify any doubts that may arise with regard to the information that must be provided when initiating a new processing operation or Office to study and carry out the corresponding risk analyses and to have the necessary information at its disposal.
On the occasion of Línea Directa Aseguradora's adherence to the Spanish Data Protection Agency's (AEPD) Digital Pact for the Protection of Individuals in 2021, various actions were continued in 2023 with the aim of promoting and strengthening transparency and disseminating good practices in the processing of personal data.
Among these, it is worth highlighting the AEPD's various publications on data protection and on "Digital Violence against Women and Girls", both internally to its staff and externally on its social media channels.In addition, several privacyrelated circulars containing recommendations on the implementation of security measures in customer communications have been published infernally on the corporate intranet. With these measures, we continue to implement a privacy culture in the organisation, integrating privacy into all business processes, not only to identify and prevent risks, but also to create and contribute value.
Throughout 2023, changes have been made to the wording of the first level of information in the Privacy Policy to encourage its updating and to improve the transparency and clarity of the information provided to customers.
In addition, annual audits are carried out to verify compliance with the published procedures, in accordance with the obligation to correctly identify policyholders and provide them with the appropriate information relating to the processing of personal data. The results of the audit revealed a high rate of compliance.
In 2023, Linea Directa Group has not been subject to any sanctions regarding Data Protection.
In 2023, Linea Directa Aseguradora suffered a security breach from an external source, which was duly reported to the AEPD and to the customers affected. After analysing the breach, the data protection
authorities determined that the information provided by the company has been sufficient, and the case has been closed without any further action on their part.In 2024, the Data Protection Office will continue to promote actions derived from the Group's commitment to the Digital Pact of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, as well as informing and
disseminating among employees all publications, news and contents that, due to their scope and importance, may be of interest to the organisation. It will also periodically review the Privacy Policies and internal procedures related to data protection in order to comply with the applicable regulations.
Cybersecurity is a real priority for a company that operates without office networks and exclusively by phone and internet. For this reason, Línea Directa Aseguradora has in place an Information Security Management System designed to prevent, confront and respond to any cyber threat.
Línea Directa Aseguradora's Security Management System
guarantees the principles of integrity, availability and confidentiality, for which the company has a cybersecurity team that, during the last
financial year, has developed the following lines of work:
· Development of the external Security Operations Centre (SOC) to provide it with reactive capabilities.
· Acquisition of a new Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution to improve security monitoring of all assets and detect anomalous access patterns.
· Enhancement of the security of digital assets with strong internet exposure.
In addition, the company has continued to train employees
through training videos available at the @prendeplatform from Línea Directa's Training department.
In 2023, Línea Directa carried out a series of pentests, or intrusion tests, to identify and assess the potential security vulnerabilities of assets with high Internet exposure, as well as their possible extent. In this way, the 0365 environment and its internal infrastructure, a wide range of Lotus Notes portals and resources, the Vivaz website and the Vivaz Activity and Vivaz Management Apps and the Artemis
web portal and infrastructure have been reviewed.
Other key assets such as the company's commercial website, the and the ConducTop app were also analysed.
In 2023, Linea Directa Aseguradora suffered a security breach from an external_source_ Once detected, the company informed both the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and the affected customers. This breach, which was the subject of a proper investigation, has now been closed and is on file. During the last financial year, Línea Directa was not subject to sanctions in the field of data protection.
Línea Directa's General Cybersecurity Strategy has four key pillars:
· Integrate cybersecurity into the lifecycle of new initiatives to ensure their protection from the outset, and implement controls and measures accordingly.
· Assess cybersecurity when procuring technological solutions and contracting technological services.
Since its inception, Línea Directa Group has shown a firm commitment to society and, in particular, to the development of the insurance sector, being a member of the leading associations in the geography of its activity, which is Spain.
The Corporate Governance department has among its objectives the management and global monitoring of the memberships to associations or groups of influence To which the company belongs or is interested in joining. It also defines the governance
and executive responsibilities for each membership, both in approving membership and in monitoring performance.
In these monitoring processes, the company assesses whether the
positions of the associations in which it wishes to participate are in line with its positions on various issues, including digitalisation, human rights, talent management, climate change and the Paris Agreement, sustainable business generation, etc.
In the event that there are significant differences between Línea Directa's position and that of the various associations in which it participates, the company will work to bring its position closer to that of the respective association through its participation in the committees in which it is represented.
In 2023, I línea Directa has allocated its contributions among
associations and stakeholders as follows:
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| influence, Groups ot representation of interests or sımılar. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Companies, organisations or political candidates at a regional local, or national level |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Industry associations | 122,473 | 114,712 | 126,632 | 136,122 |
| Other expenses associated with political intluence |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total contributions | 122,473 | 114,712 | 126,632 | 136,122 |
Línea Directa is a member of UNESPA, the Spanish Insurance
Association, and is also associated with ICEA, an organisation that works with the sector to provide information and data that allow jus to understand the changes in the insurance industry from aliferent
perspectives. It also seeks to encourage the training of professionals in the sector.
Both partnerships are aligned with the global sustainability agenda,
which is underpinned by initiatives such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Gogls, the Paris Agreements and the European Green Pact. In order to fulfil this purpose, ICCA and UNESPA have
started a new collaboration for the elaboration of sectoral statistics in the field of sustainability.
In 2023, Línea Directa joined the United Nations PSI sectoral initiative, which involves a series of commitments closely linked to the company's sustainability strategy:
Línea Directa Group has a firm commitment to human rights, which it promotes both in the development of its commercial activity and in its relationship with all its stakeholders: employees, customers, suppliers and society in general.
Linea Directa Aseguradora is a member of the Spanish network of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights into its activities , for which it has a Human Rights Policy approved by the Board of
Directors since 2020 and applicable to all the Group's subsidiaries.
The Policy is intended to serve as a guide in protecting and respecting these rights, preventing their violation and ieflecting the company's
commitment to international, local and industry standards, such as the UN Global Compact, the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and
the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance. In addition to describing how this protection is implemented in its operations, the Policy also outlines Línea Directa's commitments in its operations as an insurer, to its professionals as an employer and to suppliers as a business partner.
In its role as an employer, the company is committed to upholding the human rights of its employees and promoting the principles of fair and favourable working conditions and non-discrimination, as well as complying with the provisions of the relevant ILO core conventions.
In order to strengthen its position on nondiscrimination and equal opportunities, Línea Directa became a member of the Diversity Charter, a European Commission project within the framework of the nondiscrimination regulations.
In terms of the supply chain, the company relies mainly on domestic
suppliers, which allows fir better understanding their human rights practises while supporting local development. As part of the supplier approval process, suppliers must accept the Supplier Code of Conduct,
which includes several sections on respect for human rights and labour legislation.
In order to meet regulatory trends, the requirements of supervisors and analysts and the commitments assumed by the company, Línea Dirécta Aseguradora has carried out its first due diligence exercise in the area of human rights.
The objective of Línea Directa's due diligence process (and that of its monitoring and reporting) is to be in line with best practices in human rights and to meet the requirements of different ESG analysts, serving as support for the measurement of social impacts, regulated by law 11/2018 on Non-Financial Information and Diversity, which transposes EU Directive
2014/95 and establishes a framework for human rights analysis.
The following international frameworks have been taken into account for the due diligence procedure, most of which are also included in the company's Human Rights Policy:
Línea Directa is firmly committed to the application of other national and international human rights standards, always with the aim of expanding its commitment in this area and integrating them into its risk management, decision-making and governance
processes in its operations and in its relations with its stakeholders.
This commitment will also enable the company to promote transparency in all its policies and procedures and to engage with customers, industry and other stakeholders to share best practice in this area, address common issues and otter real solutions.
Línea Directa Aseguradora's human rights due diligence process includes the identification of potential human rights violations based on the Company's commitments.
The commitments made cover five dimensions of the company: as an employer, as an insurer, as an investor, as a collaborator and partner and in relation to its environment.
The identification of risk events goes hand in hand with the delimitation ot actual or potential negative impacts and detines the criteria to be considered in order to Tacilitate their assessment, prioritisation and management. The process was detined and developed with the involvement of an independent third party and the key areas responsible for each of the five dimensions.
The risk event assessment process is carried out based on Línea Directa
Aseguradora's risk analysis methodology, in order to ensure uniformity of criteria. The methodology also defines how to assess the impact, likelihood and severity of each event.
Human rights due diligence is conducted at least every three years.
This methodology will be used to identify potential human rights risks in operations, the value chain, businessrelated activities and new business relationships such as mergers, acquisitions or joint ventures.
Once the impact and likelihood variables have been assessed, the severity of each risk event is determined, allowing the company's human rights risk map to be drawn up.
A categorisation of potential human rights violations has been carried out taking into account each of the dimensions of Línea Directa Aseguradora's Human Rights Policy: as an employer, as an insurer, as an investor, as a collaborator and partner and in relation to its environment.
| IMPACTO | PROBABILITY |
|---|---|
| Company involvement | Country |
| Magnitude | Sector |
| Reversibility | Level of coverage or control environment |
The following guidelines were also used:
| ROLES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| As an employer | As a collaborator and partner |
As an insurer | As an investor | In relation to its environment |
| Equal treatment in people management |
Processes of supplier approval, registration and |
Responsible marketing Accessibility |
Investment in companies and |
Promotion of human rights in the environment |
| conditions | contracting | and discretion in products and services |
countries | |
| Freedom in the workplace |
and mitigation mechanisms |
Data processing |
partnerships | |
| The environment and workplace |
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| Information security | ||||
| Fair working | Risk control and data protection |
Building. |
For each of the risk events included in this document, we have contextualised what the threat may be, the stakeholders that would be affected and the link to Línea Directa Aseguradora's Human Rights Policy.
This means:
Description of the risk event and its link to human rights (main and related). The following aspects have been taken into account: forced labour, human trafficking, child labour, right of association, right to collective bargaining, equal pay, discrimination and right to the environment.
· Stakeholders affected by each risk event: customers,
employees, suppliers and/or the public.
In this exercise, the tollowing vulnerable groups have been considered in each of the dimensions indicated in the policy: women, children, migrants, contractors, local communities. Attention has also been paid to the older population from the point of view of product design and marketing, and to people with disabilities from the same point of view and also from the point of view of integration into the company's workforce.
For each of the above dimensions, we have mainly analysed the responsibilities, processes, practices, training, channels, reporting, alliances and initiatives that Línea Directa Aseguradora carries out to mitigate or remedy risk events.
Línea Directa Group has a whistleblowing channel for reporting breaches of the Code of Ethics, which is freely accessible to all employees and is completely anonymous and confidential. It also has a harassment protocol aimed at preventing inappropriate situations that could hinder the normal development of the company and that could lead to moral, sexual or gender harassment or discriminatory treatment.
In 2023, one complaint of possible human rights violations was received, relating to a case of harassment or unacceptable behaviour, which, after being confirmed by the relevant investigation, led to appropriate disciplinary action. In 2022, one such complaint was also received and followed the same procedure.
Línea Directa Group is exposed to a wide range of risks arising from its activity and numerous external factors that may affect the continuity of its business, its strategy, its reputation and its financial objectives. For this reason, if has a management model applicable to all Group companies which, in addition to regulated procedures for the entire organisation.
The activity of the companies that make up Línea Directa Group is also subject to a series of risks that may affect their reputation, objectives and strategy. To ensure that all risks are propenly
identified, measured, managed and controlled, Corporate Risk Management has set up a crossfunctional management system. The organisation has a set of predefined operating principles and procedures that are systematically applied to all Group companies.
In order to identify, measure, manage and control the most relevant
risks, Línea Directa Group follows the following principles of action:
The organisational structure of risk management and control is based upon the principles of independence and segregation of duties between business units and risk monitoring and control units.
The roles and responsibilities of the various governing bodies of the company, as well as those of the parties involved in the risk
control and management process, are strictly defined.
· The Board of Directors of Línea Directa is responsible for defining the general risk policy, which serves as a framework
for other specific policies for each type of risk, ensuring, a homogeneous application in all areas and subsidiaries of the Group. In addition, it is responsible for risk appetite setting and risk monitoring, ensuring that identified risks are properly monitored and managed. On an annual basis, the Board of Directors or the Audit and Compliance Committee set risk, tolerance limits and approves changes in the thresholds of key risk indicators (KRIs).
The risk management functions are equipped with adeguate reporting systems and controls to ensure compliance with this reporting of of the some of first for enote "Comphanes" will " min "
policy and the way they function is described in the specific
policies for each type of function.
Línea Directa has internal control processes and an effective risk management system that complies with applicable regulations
and is in line with best practises in the sector.
In order to exploit synergies and optimise dialogue with the first
Society of defence, a Corporate Risks department was created in 2022, bringing together the following functions:
· The Actuarial function
· Regulatory Compliance
Its mission is to provide a risk map that highlights current and emerging threats to the business and to ensure an effective control environment that strengthens the longterm sustainability of the business.
To this end, Línea Directa Group has set up different levels of management or "defences" to ensure that facing each type of risk there is:
This structure guarantees:
That responsibility, knowledge and control of risks is carried
Following its IPO, Línea Directa Group is obliged to ensure
compliance with European Union regulations by adopting
International Financial Reporting Stan
To this end, the Internal Control over Financial Reporting identifying and determining the relevant financial information that must be subject to internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), as well as the processes required for its preparation, on der a
defined materiality criterion and taking into account all reported
and published financial information.
The ICFR is part of internal control and is the set of processes that
the Board of Directors, the Audit Committee, Senior Management and relevant employees ccarry out to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial information
disclosed to the markets.
The Internal Control over Financial Reporting department, which is
responsible for the effective implementation of ICFR and its proper monitoring, continued to work on identifying, reviewing and documenting the relevant information processes included in ICFR,
designing and implementing controls over the above information and establishing a periodic report to the Audit and Compliance committee on the operating effectiveness of the controls for each quarterly financial statement, in addition to establishing a review process by the external auditor.
Identitied risks are grouped into the tollowing categories:
· Market and concentration risk
· Financial, credit and counterparty risks, including contingent liabilities and other off-balance sheet risks
The governing bodies receive information at least quarterly on the main risks to which the institution is exposed, the capital resources available to manage these risks and compliance with the limits set out in the risk appelite.
The Corporate Risk team, together with the other areas of the mo - Serporato - Rich (sam) - Sisks than and Since Comments of the Company, Company, Company, Incol
business if they were to occur, including entransmission and and made and prevention and mitigation measures are identified to obtain the residual risk assessment. A number
Corporate Risk has set up a communication channel on the intranet so that any employee can report potential risks or materialisations.
The main risks that may have an impact in the medium to long term are the following:
In a connected world, IT security and preventive measures against increasingly professionalised cybercrime are of crucial importance. In this respect, cyberattacks are one of the company's main concerns in the area of risk management, as a security breach can seriously affect business continuity, trust and reputation. For this reason, Línea Directa has a strategy in this area, in which it applies a comprehensive vision of the processes involving different areas of the company and critical suppliers, allowing it to centralise efforts and reinforce response and recovery systems and protocols.
In addition to the specific security measures described in the specific section on cybersecurity, the company has a cyberrisk
policy that covers the possible consequences of this type of event.
Over the last fifteen years, we have witnessed a succession of
crises that have stressed and destabilised the global economy. Events such as the subprime mortgage crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the serious geopolitical siñuation, extreme weather events, energy crises or the inflationary process have been experienced for the first time on a global scale.
The depth and seriousness of these events have increased the sense of threat for mass consumer companies, which has led Línea Directa to implement a specific Business Continuity Plan that guarantees a strong response capacity in the event of major unforeseen events.
Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of catastrophic events resulting from adverse weather events, leading to a signiticant increase in claims expenses. Moreover, their increasing intensity and virulence make it difficult to manage
them in a timely manner and can deteriorate the service provided to the insured, as well as affecting the company's results.
To mitigate this risk, Línea Directa Aseguradora has set up specific procedures for the management of these claims, as well as an accumulation reinsurance programme that provides coverage for claims that exceed a certain amount due to their severity and are not covered by the Insurance Compensation Consortium. In this type of
reinsurance, the claims costs of the event that exceeds the priority set in the contract are ceded, the claims costs being understood as the sum of all in conditions set in the contract.
With the exception of 2019, when no catastrophic events were recorded, such events have become commonplace and their average cost has increased significantly over the last two years.
Historically, these events have tended to be concentrated in coastal areas, so the company has carried out an atmospheric damage
guarantee study for homes within 30km and 10km of the coast for the following geographical areas:
It has also been observed that these events are no longer exclusively located on the coast, as they are increasingly occurring in inland areas, and the study will be extended to include these areas in future years.
On the other hand, in relation to the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, Línea Directa Aseguradora has in place its Sustainability Plan 2023-2025, which aims to promote sustainable growth based on ESG dimensions and position its direct model as its best asset in the years.
In addition, the design of appropriate controls and key risk, indicators (KRIs) has been promoted to support the Audif and Compliance committee.
The tense economic and geopolitical environment has contributed to higher inflation. The tightening of monetary policy and the slowdown in major economies will have an impact on insurance markets. After 20 years of steady market pressure on average motor premiums, the industry has seen an increase in average continues to have a negative impact on margins and profitability.
On the other hand, the direct model, characterised by direct contact with the customer and the strategic orientation of the organisation, is a great asset in adapting to the current economic circumstances, as it offers significant advantages in terms of cost control, stability of supply systems, efficiency and specialisation of processes. In addition, the direct model allows for greater traud detection and control, as the fewer intermediaries in the claims management chain, the easier it is to control, detect and prevent potential fraudulent actions.
The responses in financial markets is also having an adverse impact on the valuation of risky assets. Although the company maintains a prudent portfolio in terms of financial instruments (government and corporate bonds), there are risks associated with the capital markets, such as interest rate movements or the situation of high uncertainty.
People are a fundamental asset in creating a sustainable, profitable and efficient business. Línea Directa Aseguradora promotes people management based on respect, ethics, equal opportunities, non-discrimination and diversity.
In addition, Línea Directa has implemented strong policies to attract, develop and retain talent to provide the organisation with the skills and knowledge necessary to achieve its strategic
objectives. For this reason, a strategy has been set up during 2023 to strengthen the company's position as a benchmark employer brand through attractive, modern and digital communications.
Línea Directa has in place a specific Talent Attraction strategy that allows it to meet its business and service needs in a highly volatile environment, based on the following principles:
On the other hand, Línea Directa seeks to increase the value of the assets it offers as an attractive place to work. This strategy is based on projecting a real and transparent image of the culture and life in the company, and is built on the principles of the Employee Value Proposition, in which each candidate and each person is únique.
The company has a specialised recruitment team that treats each process individually. The added value this team provides lies in the fact that it strategically creates an experience for candidates, allowing them to get to know the company, their future area of work and their colleagues, and then providing them with the necessary technological tools and the necessary training for the performance of their duties.
Another way of strengthening candidate loyally is to ensure
consistency between the experience of the recruitment and selection process and the process of integration into the company; for Línea Directa, integration is a key moment in which the importance of people and their contribution to the organisation is valued.
The company has also set up talent communities that nurture specific talents in éach functional area, develop their own training programmes and share knowledge and experience regardless of their place in the organisation. In addition, the company nurtures leadership in its Darwin, Crece and Smile communities; if nurtures
analytical capabilities in its Pi community; and management efficiency through the implementation of the Agile methodology in project management.
Increased regulatory pressure is forcing Línea Directa to comply with the requirements and restrictions imposed by new legislation, adapt its processes and systems, and strengthen its legal teams. The expected regulatory changes in the area of sustainability and climate change could have a significant impact on companies.
Línea_Directa has developed different measures to mitigate this risk. Firstly, it has a bulletin of regulatory and legal news, which includes regulatory projects, relevant criteria issued by the main supervisors and other news of importance that may afféct or be of interest to the institution. In addition, the Management team is promptly informed of the changes and their potential impact on the business, and awareness programmes are conducted throughout the organisation on the new regulations and the risks they may entail.
The company also has other tools in place, such as the Regulatory Rádar, which analyses regulatory changes and their potential impact, and helps to drive the implementation of measures to ensure that these changes are incorporated into processes and operations.
During 2023, the following policies have been updated:
· Health, Prevention, and Well-being Policy
· Internal Regulations Management Policy
The company's reported reserves for payment of claims and related expenses are estimates based on actuarial calculations, statistical models and projections made individually by the Services and Benefits team on the basis of available information. To address the risks associated with provisioning, the following controls are in place: monitoring the development of reserves in the monthly Claims Incurred committee, annual review of the calculation of fechnical provisions by the statutory auditor, and a calculation of technical provisions by an independent expert as a counterpart to internal calculations.
However, there is a risk of underfunding caused by changes in the applicable legal provisions and the economic environment.
The pace of change brought about by digitalisation and new
technologies is rapid, which can lead to a risk of not being able to respond to customer demands in an agile and effective manner, as
well as a risk arising from the lack of scalability of the company's technology.
Línea Directa promotes the digitalisation and automation of those processes which, by their nature, can do without human supervision, always with the aim' of allocating the talent and training of its team of
people to the resolution of those procedures in which they can contribute real value. For this reason, in addition to having feams
specialised in technological innovation and in the design and development of new products, Línea Directa has a Digital Transformation department that provides a unique, strategic and transversal vision of this process, and implements various measures aimed at improving customers' digital experience.
In 2023, Corporate Risks continued to work on efficiency improvements, including the tollowing initiatives:
• area' of compliance, the CAR workshops in Madrid and
Barcelona have received training. And a training video specifically looking at the penal code is available for the managers and coordinators of Línea Directa.
The objectives and main lines of work for 2024 are as tollows:
The company has defined the management model, processes,
regulations concerned and methodogy for ESG risk magaging memoriality
This is a combined melho considered a more immediate threat. The methodology is monitored
periodically to facilitate the transmission of information between the
areas responsible for risks and Línea Directa's Risk Management department. On the other hand, work is carried out to monitor the mitigating measures or controls identified in each area, to analyse their effectiveness through the evidence that can be provided, to update their control environment and, consequently, risk assessment. If any improvements are identified, appropriate action plans are put together.
Linea Directa Group's ESG Risk Map contains the risks to which
the company_is exposed, divided into the three ESG axes looked at from the 5 main business dimensions, and in turn subdivided an from the so final socirost the different events included in each category, all of them are linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (\$DGs) and other reporting frameworks (GRI or Non-Financial Reporting Act 11/2018).
Although Línea Directa Group is not in a critical sector in terms of climate change, which is one of the main categories of ESG
risks, the company js aware of this issue and promotes and encourages responsible management in this area. To this end, it
has specific policies and measures, detailed in the section of this document on environmental management, enabling it to manage the use of resources efficiently in order to minimise the company's impact on the environment.
On the social front, Línea Directa Group has protocols and specific measures to stimulate the potential and development of its employees, encouraging diversity and inclusion, offering the best solutions to maintain employability and promoting safety in the workplace and the health of employees, as set out in the section on social and staff-related issues. In product design, current market trends, such as electric, hybrid or alternative combustion cars, are also taken into account.
Finally, on the governance front, the company has laid out measures for supplier approval mechanisms; a corporate governance structure that meets all regulatory and best practice reguirements; zero tolerance for bribery and any illegal activity as reflected in the Code of Ethics and other internal policies; as well as all information and data security measures implemented in the organisation.
In connection with human rights due diligence, risks have been
identified as detailed in the following table:
| RIKS | RISK | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATEGORY | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| Insurance risks |
Lack of physical or digital accessibility to the products and services oftered (adapted websites, etc.) | ||||||
| 2 | Potential discrimination in access to insurance (products and services) due to biases ow income, vulner resons (ethnicity, disability, religion) |
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| 3 Advertising campaigns or messages hat infringe on the principle of nor-discrimination on grounds of gender, disability, roce, et. | |||||||
| 4 Inadequate processing of customers' personal information | |||||||
| 5 Failure to otter products and services appropriate to the needs and/or type of customer | |||||||
| 6 Marketing of products and services that could violate human rights | |||||||
| Discrimination in hiring, promotion dismissal processes within the company on the grounds of gender, discuss or any other discriminatory grounds |
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| 8 Lack of physical or digital accessibility to the workplace (offices) | |||||||
| 9 Lack ot management ot harassment in the workplace | |||||||
| 10 Allowing a pay gap or discriminatory pay difterential between employees of the same rank and category | |||||||
| 1 1 Preventing employees from expressing needs or opinions and/or practising religion | |||||||
| 1 Forbiding workers from ining togeher and defending heir common inters to joining trade unions and striking - periors, perallies in career development) |
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| Employer __________________________ | |||||||
| 14 Allowing changes in the working conditions of (or dismissal of) employees atter reporting pregnancy | |||||||
| 1 5 Not granting or limiting the stipulated maternity/paternity leave | |||||||
| 16 Failing to comply with stipulated provisions, life insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance | |||||||
| 17 Failing to secure guaranteed income during an employee's medical leave | |||||||
| 1 Absence of sipulated breaks or insulting the dsence of digital disconection outside legaly or convenionally established working time | |||||||
| 1 9 Inadequate protection of workers' health and safety |
| ાંડિટ | RISK | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATEGORY | DESCRIPTION | |||||
| Investor risks |
20 Investing in companies that may cause damage to World Heritage sites or other protected areas | |||||
| 21 Investing in companies or countries that may be linked to practices likely to impact on human rights | ||||||
| 22 Investing in companies in controversial sectors whose practices are environmentally damaging | ||||||
| 23 Not contracting or disassociating from a supplier tor religious reasons | ||||||
| 24 Hiring suppliers that do not ensure minimum health and safety conditions for their employees | ||||||
| 25 Hiring suppliers that do not ensure freedom of association for their employees | ||||||
| 26 Hiring of suppliers operating with personnel under the age set by ILO and/or national legislation | ||||||
| Risks for 27 Hiring suppliers who do not pay their workers at least the minimum wage | ||||||
| collaborators partners partnerships |
28 Hiring suppliers who engage in any form of modern slavery (forced or compulsory labour, withdrawal of employee documentation) | |||||
| 29 Hiring suppliers that engage in discriminatory practices towards their employees | ||||||
| 30 Hiring suppliers that engage in practices that are harmful to the environment and are precursors of climate change | ||||||
| 31 Partnering with organisations that may cause damage to World Heritage sites or other protected areas | ||||||
| 32 Building alliances with organisations that may engage in discriminatory, anti-human rights practices | ||||||
| 33 Partnering with organisations that engage in environmentally damaging practices and are precursors of climate change |
Emerging risks are new risks that are developing or, by their very nature, changing. These risks are characterised by a Jow probability of occurrence with indications of growth and significant long-term
impact should they materialised.
An exponential pace of technological development will bring about unpredictable transformations and an era of unprecedented change. In this context, there is a risk that the company will not be able to
adapt to such environments, or, more specifically, that superhuman artificial intelligences will emerge that are beyond control, a phenomenon known as technological singularity.
The accelerated development of new digital technologies raises ethical concerns about their implementation, such as privacy, attribution of responsibility or biases in data processing. External artificial intelligence can be disruptive to the insurance business because it also lacks the resources, human and technological capacity to identify and detect unethical situations that impact the business.
The most significant impacts observed are the following:
The actions that Línea Directa is taking to mitigate this situation are as follows:
• Monitoring through Línea Directa Group's Regulatory Radar, in order to identify any changes in applicable legislation in this area.
The self-driving car is a vehicle capable of performing all driving functions between an origin and a destination without the need for human intervention at any point, beyond indicating the start and end point of the journey.
The use of this type of vehicle generates a type of accident rate unknown to the company and the sector, as well as the cover to which an insurance company is liable in a market that is increasingly oriented towards a sustainable and technological mobility.
There are currently no self-driving cars on the market in Spain, although there are several projects under development. On the other hand, current legislation does not allow the driver to give up control of the steering wheel at any time so self-driving cars would not be allowed in Spain today, even if technology made it
possible. In some US states, such as California, the use of semiautonomous driving that involves letting go of the car's controls is permitted.
There are also European countries where the deployment of selfdriving transport, such as taxis, is being considered, and where
developers are allowed to test self-driving cars on roads open to traffic.
The most significant impacts observed are the following:
· Uncertainty about the legislation applicable to the use of this type of technology in vehicles in Spain. Possible legal looph of the casuistry, which does not allow us to define with certainty the possiblé responsibilities, such as for the use of scooters (local ordinances, regional laws, etc.).
The actions that Línea Directa is taking to mitigate these risks are as to ows:
· Training and study in algorithms, analysis of autonomous mobility പ്രവിത്യം വിശ്വാ പരാമിക്കുന്നതാണ് അതിന്റെ പ്രവേശം പ്രവേണം
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· Constant monitoring through Línea Directa Group's Regulatory Radar to identify any legislative changes applicable to the company's sphere of activity.
The population of the European Union is undergoing a general
ageing process. This is reflected in the main statistical indicators such agaily process of the research in the marked in the role and around and around and around and around and around and around and and and and and and and and bersul personal per almost doubled over this period.
Meanwhile, the census of driving licences of the Directorate ﺍﻟﻤﺎﺿﻲ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﺳﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺎﺿﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺎﺿﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﺳﻢ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﺳﻢ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﺳﻢ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﺳﻢ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﺳﻢ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﻣﺐ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺎﻭ
ﺍﻟﻤﺮﺍﺟﻊ urban roads, the results are no better: of the 473 fatalities in this
category, 184 were also over 65 years of age, representing
39% of the total, the largest group of victim
An ageing of the population, coupled with the consequent loss in purchasing power and more restrictive regulations on driving after a certain age, poses a risk with unknown long-term social and economic impacts. As a result, demand for insurance may decline as the proportion of this age group increases in a few years' time, although the advent of self-driving cars may mitigate this risk.
The most significant effects we have observed from this risk are as follows:
· Understanding the needs of the 'older' population: mobility safety, home automation, personal services (companionship, home repairs, etc.) and health.
· Understanding new 'young' customer profiles from other
countries that are offsetting the ageing of Spain's population.
When looking at underwriting risks, the company uses an independent external consultant to review the calculation of technical provisions with the greatest impact. The scope of the audit includes
the technical provisions in the Motor and Home business segments, as well as the premium provisions under Solvency II in the same business segments, because these provisions, which represent the
bulk of the reserve and premium risks, are part of the underwriting risk.
This independent external audit is a best practice that the company has been implementing for more than ten years, prior to the entry into
force of Solvency II. The aim is to provide greater certainty to the Board of Directors as to the adequacy of the provisions made.
Since the entry into force of Solvency II and since the Actuarial
department was created, it has been responsible for coordinating these audits and analysing any differences that may arise between these adonio and andiving any differences indi may and been and one one one one one one one one one one open of one open of one open of an el are are are are are are and its architecture provides greater independence to the analysis.
The internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) system is in line with the requirements of the Spanish Securities Market Commission (CNMV) to review the internal control over financial reporting in listed companies. The external audit strengthens the transparency and quality of the public information on ICFR provided to the securities
markets, facilitates the comparability of the information published by different companies and promotes convergence with countries in our
environment where it has been deemed necessary to involve the external auditor in the review of information on ICFR. PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores, S.L., in its capacity as the Group's statutory auditor, carries out an annual review of the control model of the financial reporting system.
Línea Directa Aseguradora operates in an industry that is not critical with respect to climate change. Moreover, it operates under a direct business model, without a network of offices throughout the country, but with a centralised model, which makes it a naturally more environmentally efficient company than other competitors in the sector.
The company is, however, aware that it operates in a key segment in the transition to a low-carbon economy, namely motor transport. VVith an ageing vehicle fleet and a more restrictive regulatory
horizon, línea Directa is positioning itself with a sustainable business strategy in order to meet the needs of stakeholders in the face of the uncerfainties that arise in this regard. The company's activity combines responsible consumption management with the launch of new products for new, less polluting forms of mobility. In addition, the company continues to make progress in the responsible its investment portfolio.
In 2023, the company approved its 5th Sustainability Plan for the 2023-2025 period. The plan has the fight against climate change and decarbonisation among its main aims. As proof of Línea Directa's commitment to these aspects, the incentives of the CEO and
the management team have been linked to specific actions defined in the Sustainability Plan, such as, for example, the publication of the first analysis of risks and opportunities in the face of climate change or the measurement of the measurement.
In this regard, the company's adherence to the Task Force on
ClimateRelated Financial Disclosures is essential within its strategy towards climate change. With this commitment, it undertakes To incorporate and report on governance, strategy, risk and opportunity management and climate change metrics and goals.
In early 2024, the first report on risks and opportunities will be
approved and published following the recommendations of the TCFD.
In response to climate change, the company is focusing its activities on a combination of responsible consumption management and the launch of new products for new forms of cleaner mobility. In addition, the company continues to make progress in the responsible its investment portfolio.
The Board of Directors of Línea Directa Aseguradora is the supreme body responsible for the management, direction and representation of the company, and has the power to adopt all corporate resolutions, with the exception of those powers reserved for the Annual General Meeting.
In particular, the Board determines the overall policies and strategies of the company, including approving, setting and monitoring strategy
and risk manqgement policies, including those relating to sustainability and climate change.
Climate change is processed by the company through the by the working groups that make up its governance structure; it is
also processed through the policies that lay the foundations for progress on sustainability and climate change within the company, and through its participation in initiatives of national and international organisations that demonstrate the insurer's commitment to the fight against climate change.
There are members of the management team in particular who have specific responsibilities in the fight against climate change:
· The People, Communication and Sustainability department is responsible for proposing, coordinating and implementing the necessary measures in the organisation to implement the sustainability strategy approved by the Board of Directors and reports to the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee. In this way, it promotes the integration of ESG criteria across all 'areas of the business
· The Corporate Risk department is responsible for the overall may incur in (including ESG and climate change risks), after
identifying these risks together with the other corporate areas.Similarly, the Management committee, the Standing Risk committee
and the Sustainability committee, deal with climate change issues to a greater extent than the departments above.The Sustainability committee, made up of the Head of People,
Communication and Sustainability, the General Secretary, the Head.
of Finance, the Head of Marketing and the Head Bearing which mess age and, in particular, has approved the first
related to climate change and, in particular, has approved the first
TCFD report published by línea DirectaThe company also runs a Sustainability working group, in which hhe
areas of External Communication and Sustaindaility, Rurcher Relations Renament
Norketing and N People and Internal Communication and Social Action are actions to be included in the Sustainability Plan and allows for regular, transversal and detailed monitoring of the status of the actions underway in said Plan.The company has thus implemented a structure, policy and actions that will serve to fight climate change, and which places it on the road to adapting To the new regulatory requirements that aim to
achieve zero net emissions in the economy by 2050, both in its role as an insurer and in its role as an institutional investor.
Climate change poses a major threat to the stability of global economic, social and geopolitical systems. This situation has generated a great deal of market interest in the strategies companies are adopting to both reduce emissions and create value for their investors, and to help curtail the risk of a systemic tinancial shock to the economy from climate change.
For this reason, Línea Directa has joined the Task Force on Climate
related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the initiative set up by the initiative, the company commits to incorporating its climate-related financial disclosure recommendations.
The TCFD is a global trend in climate change reporting, which
provides an effective response to analysts and investors and is becoming widely accepted among regulators at national and global level as the best practice for reporting on climate performance.
In 2023, Línea Directa identified the impacts, risks and opportunities arising from climate change and established a governance anding work comments of the sociated members .
Such report would describe the oversight and role of the company's Board of Directors, Board committees, Steering committees and Sustainability committees in managing climate risks and opportunities.
In addition, short, medium- and longterm time horizons have been
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The document will include a description of the process of identifying and assessing climate risks, managing them and integrating them into the company's risk map,
as well as metrics related to risk and opportunities, setting targets in
this regard. The document will also contain the collection of mo regard. The activity according to the GHG roomains of the GHG Protocol
for Scopes 1, 2 and 3.
Línea Directa is committed to reporting on governance, strategy, risk
and opportunity management and publishing metrics and fargets and opportunities change over the next years. To this end, the
company has designed a roadmap to analyse the climate risks and a
compony has, both physical and transitional, medium and long term, affecting both its operations and its value chain.
Both the CEO and Senior Management have incentives included in their annual variable that are linked to compliance with the triennial
Sustainability Plan. These incentives include annual intermediate targets.
For 2023, the company set a target to reduce energy consumption
by 5% compared to 2022, which should have a direct impoch on
reducing emissions. This target for 2023 is inclu medium-lem objective, which aims to reduce consumplion (natural
gas and electricity) by more than 15% in 2025 as compared to 7022
A target related to the climate impact of the company's value chain was also included. To this end, an assessment of suppliers in terms of
emissions has been carried out, which will serve to draw up a first diagnosis of the situation. Data has been collected from more than Services and Benefits area.
A quarterly incentive for the back-office was also included, with climate impact measures such as the development of a guide to promote sustainable mobility and more sustainable travel habits among employees.
Climate risks are part of and affect risk categories already idenified
and defined by Línea Directa Group in its environmental, social anno
governance (ESG) Risk Map. The org in place to manage them, from the point of view of issues such as underwriting and reinsurance. These processes, which are supported by the Group's policies and procedures and are aligned with current legal and regulatory requirements, are tailored to the specific nature of climate risks.
The assessment and analysis of risks related to climate change involves Línea Directa's entire value chain, both its own operations and its upstream and downstream activities.
Línea Directa Aseguradora constantly evaluates the factors that may affect its business and financial situation in order to manage them appropriately. Climate change risks, divided into physical and transition risks, mainly involve an increase in extreme weather events, regulatory changes, technological disruptions and changes in business models.
Among the physical impacts of climate change, linea Directa has
looked at both those related to oneoff disruptions (acute physical risks) and those related to long-term changes in weather patterns (chronic physical risks).
From an insurance point of view, acute physical risks imply an increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as
cyclones, hurricanes, floods and droughts. In contrast, chronic physical risks have longterm impacts, such as changes in rainfall pafferns, rising average Temperatures and sea levels, or prolonged
periods of heat or drought. Both cases can have financial implications, such as direct damage to assets or indirect impacts resulting from supply chain disruption.
The transition to a low-carbon economy to mitigate the effects of climate change is leading to farreaching economic, regulatory, technological and social changes that may affect the strategy,
business model and investment policies of insurance companies.
Línea Directa has identified fransition risk areas:
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Given the complexity of designing and assessing longterm stress scenarios, where impacts need to be assessed under assumptions and over longer time horizons than those commonly used in financial risk assessment and strategic planning, we hive divided the different time horizons:
In order to identity and develop the risks and opportunities arising from climate change, Línea Directa has looked at different climate
scenarios qualitatively. The scenarios used include those relating to transition risks and physical risks and that meet two additional conditions:
Línea Directa has drawn up a strategy to address identified risks and opportunities in accordance with the TCFD recommendations guide. The strategy includes measures to address market and regulatory changes that may take place in the insurance sector; it also sets out strategic lines to 'model climate risks, promoting a circular economy
and diversified reinsurance with solvency guarantees. The strategy
also includes adopting new technical profiles to ensure compliance with the requirements of an increasingly demanding transition scenario.
Moreover, the Sustainability Plan includes a roadmap for this purpose, and will incorporate measures with short and medium term targets, with a time horizon of less than 5 years.
The 2023-2025 Sustainability Plan aims to reduce the company's emissions by reducing energy consumption and paper and plastic
waste by 15% by 2025 compared to 2022. This will result in a significant reduction in the carbon footprint.
The Sustainability Plan also includes a calculation of full Scope 3 emissions, including the 15 categories set out in the GHG Protocol. The company has reviewed the 2022 calculation and will rerun the exercise to set absolute and intermediate reduction targets in line with SBTi, confirming a potential pathway to full decarbonisation by 2050.
Línea Directa sees the implementation of an internal carbon price as an essential tool to drive the transition of its operations towards a lowcarbon economy, to anticipate possible regulatory changes in
this regard, to increase energy efficiency and to move towards therefore included this measure in its Sustainability Plan 2023-2025.
To this end, the company has started by estimating the social cost of the impact of its carbon footprint and of its efforts in supporting the transition to electric and hybrid vehicles.
In doing so, it used the International Carbon Price Floor (ICPF) set In a ouring to) it over Monetary Fund in its report "Proposal for an Infernational Carbon Price Floor Among Large Emitters". The report,
published in June 2021, estimates a price of USD 75 per tonne of carbon in high-income countries.
It was then estimated that the carbon footprint of Linea Directo's
Scope 1 and 2 emissions have a social impact of USD 60,8 10. For
Scope 3 emissions associated with the valu
ln contrast, the social impact of specific products for the underwriting
of electric and hybrid vehicle risks is very positive, avoiding up to
USD 2.35 million in social cos
Línea Directa Group has been calculating its carbon footprint for over 12 years, and makes significant efforts year after year to improve the accuracy of its calculation and gradually reduce the sources of greenhouse gas emissions in its carbon footprint.
ln previous years, calculations covered the following sources of
emissions: Direct (fossil fuel consumption), Indirect (electricity water consumption).
In 2023, Línea Directa Group perfected its calculation of indirect emissions generated by its own activity following the provisions of
the GHG Protocol for the calculation of Scope 3, qs well as the ing of the Accounting and Reporting Standard of the World
Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
Línea Directa's Scope 3 is particularly relevant because it represents 99% of the Group's emissions. The most significant emissions derive from purchases of products and services from suppliers (Category 1) and financed emissions (Category 15), i.e. from financial investments, in the Group's role as institutional investor. The results for Scope 3 for the year 2023 will be released in the company's first TCFD report to be published in 2024.

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In addition, Linea Directa Asistencia calculates annually the greenhouse
gases emitted in the services it provides on the road. The subsidiary takes into account the annual mileage of towing services, rental cars and taxis നിട്
The company has again registered its carbon footprint with the Ministry for
Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge in 2022, through
the Spanish Climate Change Of
The company also plans to offset Scopes 1 and 2 of its carbon
footprint through a series of absorption projects.
Linea Directa regularly sets shorterm targets in line with its roadmap
for decarbonising its operations. The Sustaindbility Plan currently is ered Conseption, and Consequently a similar reduction in the
Group Scopes | and 2 consequently a similar reduction in the
largely achieved, thanks to mesures and in in 1983.
In addition, the Sustaindbility Plan includes the definition of a
science-based emissions reduction attaget, following at the roceminonialion of the company in its roles as both and insurer and an institutional investor.
Línea Directa Aseguradora has implemented an Environmental Management System, certified under the UNE-EN ISO
14.001:2015 standard, to monitor and centrally manage energy consumption, water consumption, waste production and other aspects' of environmental performance in the workplaces occupied appear of Tittermond polish mamoon in The Womplaces ootapla
by 100% of instemployees. The company has well be also hour liberary lise and notal lood into listed inso
50.001: environmental impact by reducing energy consumption.
Both certifications are renewed annually, allowing for the annual identification of new regulatory requirements and risks associated with these management systems.
These management systems also allow the planning, and implementation of measures and strategies for the most effective
control and management of all resources, with the ultimate aim of minimising the environmental impact and reducing the environmental costs arising from the company's activities.
In its last two sustainability plans, línea Directa Group set targets to reduce energy consumption and improve the efficiency of its tacilities.
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parent, Linea Directa Aseguradora, comes from renewable sources
and 14% is selfgenerated by ph
Similarly, the company has placed an emphasis on avoiding
unnecessary consumption of materials such as paper in its operations.
The measures taken have led to a reduction in paper consumption in
2023 to one third of what was consumed in 2019.
Waste generation is a sub-item of the environmental management and responsible consumption category. For Linea Directa, the correct
separation of its waste to facilitate recycling is a key objective.
In the CAR Madrid and CAR Barcelona repair shops, various measures to reduce energy consumption and the associated
environmental impact continue to be implemented. At CAR Madrid, omestimal in July Sonne fully operational in June 2022, and be
the solar panels became fully operational in June 2022, and be
CAR Barcelona is located in a high-efficiency building with LED lighting, _ high-efficiency compressors and _ energyefficient _ paint
booths. The fleet of replacement vehicles has been renovated in both centres, paying special attention to the reduction of emissions and improved satety teatures.
In 2023, LDA Reparaciones, the Group's subsidiary that services the
Home segment, replaced the fleet of vehicles used by inst harmtul to the environment.To encourage employees also make this transition, the company has developed a carbon footprint reduction plan that applies to both the company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of individual somployees. Its measures include carshaning schemes, the promotion
of problem transport, the poblication of a guide ho improvion
of poblic transport, the provision of several in in the more of the use during the working day. The number of
charging points available to employees has been increased to 16 to
fuciliate the use of plug-in vehicles for
To manage the waste generated, there are waste collection points at
each plant and office, clearly signposted so that all employees are able to separate organic waste, paper waste and packaging.
All waste resulting from business activity is managed by authorised waste managers, with the aim of carrying out final waste recovery treatments so that the resources used have a second life.
In recent years, Línea Directa Group has developed a set of actions
that promote a circular economy, which is one of the main global challenges in this regard. The company's plan is based on the following three main pillars:
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contract to have a specific digital file that reduces the need for paper.
The above three lines of action, together with the technological model of throughted, have helped to gradually develop a culture.
changes implemented, have helped to gradually develop a climit environmental performance in general and waste management in particular.
In the case of the CAR Madrid and CAR Barcelona repair shops, the subsidiaries have a strict waste management policy due to their
activities and the type of materials they work with.
Biodiversity is not a relevant issue for Línea Directa Group, as it is located in urban greas and does not have an impact on protected natural areas and/or biodiversity.
Línea Directa has carried out an analysis of the recommendations for the disclosure of risks and opportunities related to nature, and has not currently identified issues that may have an impact on this aspect, either positive or negative, nor that are relevant in the short or medium term for the company.
The business segments Línea Directa operates in as an insurer do not include activities that could have a negative impact on biodiversity or any animal species.
In future years, the company will evaluate the suitability of such an
assessment, especially from the role of institutional investor. However, in order to be able to make a complete diagnosis, the companies in which the Group is a shareholder need to make public their corresponding
analysis of risks and opportunities related to biodiversity in the coming years.
Moreover, the heterogeneity of the company's current value chain makes it difficult to obtain complete information related to the impacts on nature and, as a consequence, to carry out an exhaustive diagnosis of the risks and opportunities related to it.
The company's operations combine responsible consumption management with the launch of new products for new, less polluting forms of mobility. In addition, the company continues to_make progress in managing its value chain responsibly and integrating ESG criteria into its investment portfolio.Meanwhile, as sign of its commitment to nature and the environment, Linea Directa Troup supports the initiative
promoted by VVVF, "Earth Hour", whose aim is to mobilise individuals, companies and governments to reverse the loss of biodiversity in nature. In particular, the company actively participates in the activities promoted by this initiative and makes an annual contribution to it.
The aim of the EU taxonomy is to steer capital flows towards sustainable activities, with the main challenge for companies being the adaptation of their business model towards a low carbon economy.
In recent years, the European Commission, in the context of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the United Nations
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, commissioned a group of technical experts to develop the European Union (EU) strategy for sustainable finance, as part of its commitment to direct capital flows towards sustainable activities.
As a result of this strategy, in December 2021, the Commission
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/22139 of 4 4 June 2017 11 4 June 2019
supplementing | Regulation (EU) | 2020/852 Parliament and of the Council and setting out the technical eligibility criteria that an activity must meet in order to contribute substantially to
the objectives of "Climate Change Mitigation" and "Climate Change Adaptation".
In June 2023, the European Commission has laid out, by means of Delegated Acts, the technical criteria for the other four environmental objectives set, which are: "Water protection", "Circular economy",
"Pollution prevention" and "Biodiversity and ecosystems", thus completing its green Taxonomy.
The Taxonomy establishes a set of harmonised criteria to determine in a homogeneous way whether an activity or investment is sustainable by making a substantial contribution to one of the environmental goals set out in the Regulation. The detailed definition of these criteria provides the basis for the development of standards or labels to assess the sustainability of a financial product.
ln previous years, Linea Directo Group has been reporting its
eligibility percentages for both its business activity |specifically |
premiums) and its asses. As of this year, company to report the percentages of its activity and investments aligned with the Taxonomy.
In order to provide this information in the most accurate and reliable way, Línea Directa has defined an internal methodology différentiating between the two indicators:
The ratio of eligible activities according to in Article 8(2) of
Regulation (EU) 2020/852 has been calculated as "eligible activity" = A/B
Where A is, in each case:
Where B is, in each case:
Línea Directa Aseguradora has assessed both its 2023 activity and
investments based on the methodology set by the Taxonomy. In this
respect, we report the following indicator
Proportion and amount of gross premiums written in Non-Life and reinsurance business from activities identified as environmentally sustainable according to the Taxonomy.
The company's activity corresponds to the category "Non-Life insurance: insurance against climaterelated risks", pertaining to the contribution to the Climate Change Adaptation objective.
KPIs related to underwriting activities have been calculated as the ratio of gross Non-Life premiums written corresponding to eligible underwriting activities according to the taxonomy to total gross Non-Life premiums written.
Línea Directa has drawn up the eligibility and alignment of the premiums it derives from the insurance areas it operates in. In this regard, the European Commission has presented Regulation (EU)
2020/852, which introduces which activities are sustainable from an environmental point of view. Línea Directa has analysed the key underwriiing performance indicator of its Non-Life insurance and
reinsurance companies in accordance with Appendix X of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2178 at the consolidated level, finding no signiticant risks, as these companies do not operate in areas that are not specific to the insurance activity. Both eligible and ineligible as all subsidiaries in which the company has a 100% interest.
The underwriting activity KPI shows what proportion of all Non-Life underwriting activities is composed of activities related to climate change adaptation carried out in accordance with points 10.1 and
10.2 of Appendix III to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 on the European Union Climate Taxonomy.
Indicators have been developed to allow the company to quantity the eligibility of each underwriting, ensuring the traceability and robustness of data.
Due to changes in eligibility criteria from previous years, and coinciding with the first year the degree of alignment is analysed, Línea Directa has calculated the premiums it derives from insurance of withines that contribute significantly to achieving the objective of
addeding to climate change (activities 10.1 and 10.2 of Appendix (1)
to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021 because they cover damages caused by bad weather not covered by the Insurance Compensation Consortium, in both the Motor and Home segments).
In the Motor segment, own damage and windscreen coverages have been looked at in this context, estimating the impact on premiums of claims incurred from events related to meteorological phenomena. Estimates have been made using data from net premiums written for these coverages, drawing up a risk premium and a net premium issued for atmospheric damage.
For the Home segment, all premiums derived from insurance against atmospheric phenomena and electrical damage, covering damage caused by high-intensity meteorological events, have been included. In the Health segment, no specific coverages have been found to directly insure against damages to health resulting from climate change.
In calculating alignment, the company has taken into account the Motor
Technical Selection Criteria (STS) of the activity. For both the Motor
and Home segments, the following
Underwriting models reflect the risks of climate change. The company does not only base its calculations on historical trends, but also takes into account expected trends and forward-looking
projections included both in the ORSA and in the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). TCFD also includes impact management, risks and opportunities of climate change with projections between 5 and 10' years.
The TCFD prepared by the company in 2023 sets out a climate change governance model, the management of climate change risks and opportunities, as well as the relevant strategy, objectives and metrics.
Policyholders may see their premiums reduced if the insured case meets the criteria of lower exposure to atmospheric phenomena.
The renewal of the policies is annual and should a weather event take place, the company will make the conditions to renew
or maintain the coverage available at the time of renewal. These conditions are subject to substantial changes depending on the history of weather events and the damage they cause.
Policies will benefit from discounts if preventive measures are taken by the insured or if they have a lower risk in the face of
adverse weather phenomena. These conditions are described in the relevant contracts.Products are marketed providing all the information relevant to the coverage, including coverage against climaterelated risks,
informing both of measures beneficial to the customer and of
optional coverages that may make their insurance more complete and avoid inadequate insurance levels.
- Línea Directa Aseguradora is an insurance company operating in the Motor, Home and Health segments, and as such is not authorised by the competent bodies to underwrite activities in fossil fuels (oil, gas or coal).
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The company's insurance activity does not come into conflict with any other environmental objective included in the Taxonomy. Línea Directa is committed to mitigating climate change, implementing measures that reduce its impact on the environment. It does not insure any activity related to the extraction, transportation, refining and distribution of coal, gas or oil.
The company's activity does not have a significant impact on water resources, the circular_economy, pollution or the objective of protecting biodiversity. The company meets the criteria of the Do No
Significant Harm principle (DNSH).
Línea Directa meets the minimal social safeguards set out in Articles 3
and 18 of the EU Taxonomy Regulation regarding human rights,
corruption, taxation and fair competition. A body of policies (Human Rights Policy, Anti-Corruption Policy, Fiscal Policy and its Code of Ethics, among others) shapes the company's position on these matters.
The company has human rights due diligence procedures in place, covering employees, suppliers, customers, investors and the public,
in order to prevent the violation of fundamental rights.
Línea Directa is also part of the United Nations Global Compact,
which promotes the fight against child labour, forced labour and the protection of fundamental rights.
In addition, it has procedures in place to monitor and establish disciplinary measures in the event of criminal acts, and carries out periodic fraining activities to make all corporate procedures and
policies known among its professionals, especially among its Senior Management.
Línea Directa has not been convicted or sanctioned for human rights violations, corruption or bribery, tax evasion or for not respecting competition laws during the year 2023.
| Substantial contribution | Absence of material injury ("No material injury") | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute premiums, year t (2) |
Proportion of premiums, year t (3) |
Proportion of premiums, year t-1 (4) |
Climate change |
Water and |
Circular | Pollution | Biodiversity and |
Minimum guarante |
|
| Economic activities (1) | thousands€ | ಗಿಂ | ಗಿಂ | mitigation (5) | marine resources (6) |
economy | (8) | ecosystems (9) |
es (10) |
| A. 1. Non-Life insurance and reinsurance underwriting activities that comply with the Taxonomy (environmentally sustainable) |
20,711.05 | 2.10% | Not applicable in 2023 | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| A.1.1 Of which, reinsured | 0.00 | ర్లా -- |
Not applicable | ||||||
| A. 1.2 Ot which, arising trom reinsurance business | 0.00 | ర్లా l |
Not applicable in 2023 | ||||||
| A1.2.1 Of which, reinsured (retrocession) | 0.00 | ర్లా -- |
Not applicable in 2023 | ||||||
| A.2 Non-Life insurance and reinsurance activities eligible under the Taxonomy, but not environmentally sustainable (non- taxonomy compliant activities) |
0.00 | ర్లా l |
Not applicable in 2023 | ||||||
| B. Non-Life insurance and reinsurance activities not eligible under the Taxonomy |
952,570.00 | 97.90% | Not applicable in 2023 | ||||||
| Total (A.1 + A.2 + B) | 973,281.04 | 100% | Not applicable |
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Línea Directa Group has prepared the ICR of its assets according to the Taxonomy using templates from Appendixes X and XII to Delegated Régulation (EU) 2021/2178, taking into account its amendments.
ln he reguldory context of the European Taxonomy, the proporiion
of the Group's investments directing activities that comments
with the Taxonomy of are relation in the as ar
For this purpose, all consolidated balance sheet assets have been identified and included in the denominator, excluding exposures to
central governments, central banks and supranational issuers. Among the assets included in the denominator are exposures to:
The numerator includes the proportion of exposures which:
In the alignment exercise, 100% of the investments have been taken into account, excluding those categories not included in the
Taxonomy. As there are no off-balance sheet assets, the total assets covered and the total assets under management are equal, i.e. 100% coverage.
To calculate the alignment and eligibility of exposures to financial 10 Salestan The Sampanies within the Nirkly, pop these some of the manata
were used, andysing all information polished on the security
in nonfinancial information poblished i financial year.
II was not possible to calculate the aligned percentage of the
portfolio of investment funds due to a lack of information in in responses, debt and venture capital. In these cases, no information
companies, debt and venture capital. In these cases, no information
on the underlying assets is available.
Regarding property, most of the buildings are for own use and have
not been included in the numerator because they are not considered as investments, and the remaining investment property does not meet
all the technical criteria for activity 7.7 as set out in Delegated
Regulation (EU) 2021/2139.
Finally, we include information on fossil gas and nuclear activities
according to the disclosure requirements of Delegated Reguling
(EU) 2022/1214. The following tobles provi energy activities.
| Table: Ratio of investments of insurance or reinsurance companies | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The weighted average value of all investments of insurance or reinsurance companies directed towards the financing of economic activities which comply with the Taxonomy or are linked to these activities, in relation to the value of the total assets covered by the key performance indicator, with the following weights for investments in companies: |
The weighted average value of all investments of insurance or reinsurance companies oriented towards the financing of economic activities which comply with the Taxonomy or are linked to these activities, with the following weights for investments in companies: |
||||
| In terms of turnover: % 2.3% |
In terms of turnover [monetary value]: |
€ 16,788,428 | |||
| In terms of investments in tixed assets: % |
4.5% | n terms of investments in tixed assets monetary value]: |
€ 32,669,969 |
| I he percentage of assets covered by the key performance indicator in relation to the total investments of insurance or reinsurance undertakings (total assets under management), excluding investments in sovereign entities |
The monetary value of the assets covered by the key performance indicator, excluding investments in sovereign entities |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% Coverage ratio: % |
Coverage: [monetary value] |
€ / 30, / 86, 933 | |||
| Additional and supplementary disclosures: breakdown of the denominator in the key performance indicator |
|||||
| The percentage of derivatives relative to total assets covered by the key performance indicator X% |
0.8% | I he monetary value of derivatives [monetary value] |
€ 5,908,568 | ||
| The share of exposures to financial and non-financial companies of the short subject to Articles Permanies 2001 of Directive 2017/14/24/2011 In key toplanssels covered by t performance indicator: |
Value of exposures to financial and non- financial companies not subject to Articless 19a and 29a of Directive 2013/34/EU: | ||||
| Non-financial companies: |
0.4 % | Non-tinancial companies [monetary value]: |
€ 2,997,210 | ||
| Financial companies: | - % | Financial companies monetary value : |
- € |
| The share of exposures to non EU tinancial and non-financial companies from non-EU countries not subject to Articles 19a and 29a of Directive 2013/34/EU in the total assets covered by the key performance indicator: |
Value of exposures to non-EU tinancial and nonfinancial companies from nombred. and countries not subject to Articles 19a and 29a of Directive 2013/34/EU: |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-financial companies: |
6.9% | Non-tinancial companies monetary value : |
€ 50,514,378 | ||
| Financial companies: | 7.2% | Financial companies [monetary value]: |
€ 52,289,292 | ||
| The share of exposures to tinancial and nonfinancial companies subject to Articles 19a and 29a of Directive 2013/13/34/EUJ in the Directive 2013/34/EUJ in the total assets covered by the key performance indicator: |
Value of exposures to tinancial and non- financial companies subject to Articles 19a and 29a of Directive 2013/34/EU: |
||||
| Non-financial companies: |
13.7% | Non-tinancial companies [monetary value]: |
€ 100,360,961 | ||
| Financial companies: | 24.1% | Financial companies monetary value : |
€ 175,928,734 | ||
| The share of exposures to other counterparties ana assets in total assets covered by the key performance indicator: X% |
46.9% | Value of exposures to other counterparties and assets [monetary value]: |
€ 342,787,791 |
| The share of investments of insurance or reinsurance companies, other than investments related to Lite insurance contracts under which the investment risk is borne by policyholders, which are directed to tinance activities which comply with the laxonomy or are linked to these activities: X% |
- % | Value of investments of insurance or reinsurance companies, other than investments related to Lite insurance contracts under which the investment risk is borne by policyholders, which are directed to tinance activities which comply with the laxonomy or are linked to these activities monetary value : |
- € | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value of all investments that tinance economic activities that are not eligible under the I axonomy in relation to the value of total assets covered by the key performance indicator: |
Value of all investments that finance economic activities that are not eligible under the laxonomy: |
|||||
| In terms of turnover: % | 85.9% | In terms of turnover monetary value : |
€ 627,766,768 | |||
| In terms of investments in tixed assets: % |
87.3% | In terms of investments in fixed assets monetary value : |
€ 638, 132,409 | |||
| Value of all investments that tinance economic activities that are eligible under the Taxonomy, but do not comply with it, in relation to the value of total assets covered by the key performance indicator: |
Value of all investments that tinance economic activities eligible under the Taxonomy, but which do not comply with it: |
|||||
| of In terms turnover: % |
11.8% | In terms of turnover monetary value : |
€ 86,231,737 | |||
| n terms of investments in tixed assets: % |
8.2% | In terms of investments in fixed € 59,984,556 assets [monetary value]: |
| Additional and supplementary disclosures: breakdown of the | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The share of taxonomy-compliant exposures to tinancial and non- tinancial corporations supplect to Articles 19a and 29a in total assets covered by the key pertormance indicator: |
Value of taxonomy-compliant exposures to financial and non-financial companies subject to Articles 19a and 29a: |
|||||||
| Non-tinancial companies: | Non-tinancial companies: | |||||||
| In terms of turnover: % | 2.3% | In terms of turnover monetary value : |
€ 16,677,146 | |||||
| In terms of investments in fixed assets: % |
4.5% | In terms of investments € 32,576,037 in tixed assets [monetary value]: |
||||||
| Financial companies: | Financial companies: | |||||||
| In terms of turnover: % | 0.0% | In terms of turnover [monetary value]: |
€ 111,282 | |||||
| In terms of investments in fixed assets: % |
0.0% | In terms of investments in tixed assets monetary value : |
€ 93,932 |
| The share of investments of insurance or reinsurance companies, other than investments related to Lite insurance contracts under which the investment risk is borne by policyholders, which are directed to tinance activities which comply with the laxonomy or are linked to these activities: |
Value of investments of insurance or reinsurance companies, other than investments related to Life insurance contracts under which the investment risk is borne by policyholders, which are directed to finance activities which comply with the Taxonomy or are linked to these activities: |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In terms of turnover: % | - % | In terms of turnover [monetary value]: |
- € | |||
| n terms of investments in tixed assets: % |
- % | In terms of investments in tixed assets monetary value : |
- € | |||
| The share of taxonomy-compliant exposures to other counterparties and assets in the total assets covered by the key performance indicator: |
Value of taxonomy-compliant exposures to other counterparties and assets in relation to the total assets covered by the key performance indicator: |
|||||
| In terms of turnover: % | - % | In terms of turnover monetary value : |
- € | |||
| n terms of investments in tixed assets: % |
- % | In terms of investments in fixed assets - € monetary value : |
| Breakdown of the numerator of the key performance indicator by environmental goal |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activities that comply with the Taxonomy, provided that social sateguards and absence of significant harm are assessed as positive: |
|||||||||
| 1) Climate change | In terms of turnover: % |
1.9% | Transition activities: A % (turnover; CapEx) |
్రాంగ్రామం | |||||
| mitigation | CapEx: % | 3.9% | Facilitating activities: B % (turnover; CapEx) |
8 | |||||
| 2) Adaptation to | In terms of turnover: % |
0.2% | Facilitating activities: B % | 86 | |||||
| climate change | CapEx: % | 0.2% | (turnover; CapEx) | ||||||
| (3) Sustainable use and protection of water and marine |
In terms of turnover: % |
- % | Facilitating activities: B % (turnover; CapEx) |
26 | |||||
| resources | CapEx: % | న్న | |||||||
| 4) Transition to a circular economy |
In terms of turnover: % |
- % | Facilitating_activities: B % (turnover; CapEx) |
20 | |||||
| CapEx: % | - % | ||||||||
| 5) Pollution prevention and |
In terms of turnover: % |
- % | Facilitating activities: B % (turnover; CapEx) |
26 | |||||
| control | CapEx: % | 96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
|||||||
| 6) Protection and restoration of biodiversity and |
In terms of turnover: % |
- % | Facilitating_activities: B % (turnover; CapEx) |
26 | |||||
| ecosystems | CapEx: % | - % |
| Activities related to nuclear power | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company undertakes, finances or is in the research, development, demonstration | ഗ പ്ര പ | |||||||
| The company undertakes, finances or is involved in the survey in the urbon heating or industrial processes such as hydrogen production, as well as well as |
ഗ ന പ | |||||||
| The company underdaks, finances or is involved in the safe operation of existing nuclear facilities for the promotion of the safe electricity or process heat in provinsion o | TT ← S |
|||||||
| Activities related to tossil gas | ||||||||
| The company undertakes, finances or is involved in the construction or operation of power generation facilities that produce electricity from gaseous fossil fuels. |
ഗ ന - | |||||||
| 2 | The company undertakes, finances or has exposures to the construction, |
ഗ സ പ | ||||||
| The company undertakes, finances or has exposures to the construction, renovation and operation of heat generation facilities producing heat/cooling from gaseous fossil fuels | ഗ ന പ |
| Amount and share (information should be presented in monetary amounts and in percentages) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCM + CCA | Climate change mitigation (CCM) | Climate change adaptation (CCA) | |||||||||||
| Economic activities | In terms of turnover: |
CapEx: | In terms of furnover: 96) |
CapEx (%) |
In terms of turnover: |
CapEx: | In terms ot furnover: 96 |
CapEx (%) |
In ferms ot turnover: |
CapEx: | Turnover Turnover Turnover (%) | CapEx (%) | |
| Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.26 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR. |
€ 0 | € 0 | % - |
— % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | |
| 2 | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.27 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated in section 4.27 of Appendixes I in the denominator of | € 0 | € 0 | రాని - |
్రార l |
€ 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % |
| 3 | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.28 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR. |
€ 0 | € 0 | % - |
- % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | 8 - |
| ঘ | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.29 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable CR. |
€ 39,814 | € 16,180 | — % | — % | € 39,814 | € 16,180 | — % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % |
| 5 | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.30 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR. |
€ 15,782 | € 10,787 | — % | — % | € 15,782 | € 10,787 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % |
| 6 | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.31 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR. |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % |
| 7 | Amount and share of other Taxonomy-compliant economic activities not mentioned in rows 1 to 6 in the denominator of the applicable ICR |
€ 730,731,337 € 730,759,966 | 100% | 100% | € 730,731,337 | 730,759,966 € | 100% | 100% | € 0 | € 0 | % l |
% l |
|
| 8 | Total applicable ICR | € 730,786,933 € 730,786,933 | 100% | 100% | € 730,786,933 | 730,786,933 € | 100% | 100% | € 0 | € 0 | — % | - % |
| Amount and share (information should be presented in monetary amounts and in percentages) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economic activities | CCM + CCA | Climate change mitigation (CCM) | Climate change adaptation (CCA) | ||||||||||
| In terms of turnover: |
CapEx: | In terms ot furnover: 96) |
CapEx (%) |
In terms of furnover: |
CapEx: | In terms ot furnover: 96) |
CapEx (96) |
In terms ot turnover: |
CapEx: | Turnover Turnover Turnover Turnover Turnover Turnover (%) | CapEx (%) | ||
| Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.26 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the numerator of the numerator of the numerator of the numerator of the numerator of the numerator of the numerator of the nu |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | ర్యాల - |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | |
| 2 | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.27 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the numerator of the applicable ICR. |
€ 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | ర్లన - |
€ 0 | € 0 | - % | - % |
| 3 | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.28 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the numerator of the applicable ICR. |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | రిర్ - |
€ 0 | € 0 | ర్లా l |
— % |
| ব | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.29 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021721393 in the numerator of the applicable ICR. |
€ 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | — % |
| 5 | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.30 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the numerator of the applicable ICR. |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % |
| 6 | Amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activity as defined in section 4.31 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Beggulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the numerator of the | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | ರಿಗ - |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % |
| 7 | Amount and share of other Taxonomy-compliant economic activities not mentioned in rows 1 to 6 in the numerator of the applicable ICR |
€ 16,788,428 | € 32,669,969 | 100% | 100% | € 16,788,428 | € 32,669,969 | 100% | 100% | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % |
| 8 | Total amount and share of Taxonomy-compliant economic activities in the numerator of the applicable CR |
€ 16,788,428 | € 32,669,969 | 100% | 100% | € 16,788,428 | € 32,669,969 | 100% | 100% | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % |
| Amount and share (information should be presented in monetary amounts and in percentages) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCM + CCA | Climate change mitigation (CCM) | Climate change adaptation (CCA) | |||||||||||
| Economic activities | In terms ot turnover: |
CapEx: | In terms ot turnover: (96) |
CapEx (%) |
In terms of turnover: |
CapEx: | In terms ot turnover: (96) |
CapEx (%) | In terms ot turnover: |
CapEx: | Turnover | CapEx (%) | |
| Amount and share of economic activity eligible under the taxonomy but not compliant with it according to section 4.26 ot Appendixes I and II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | |
| 2 | Amount and share of economic activity eligible under the taxonomy but not compliant with it according to section 4.27 of Appendixes I and II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | — % |
| 3 | Amount and share of economic activity eligible under the taxonomy but not compliant with it according to section 4.28 of Appendixes I and II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % |
| ব | Amount and share of economic activity eligible under the taxonomy but not compliant with it according to section 4.29 of Appendixes I and II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR |
€ 470,109 | € 40,514 | 1 જ | - % | € 470,109 | € 40,514 | 1% | — % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | — % |
| 5 | Amount and share of economic activity eligible under the taxonomy but not compliant with it according to section 4.30 of Appendixes I and II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR |
€ 24,831 | € 10,822 | — % | — % | € 24,831 | € 10,822 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % |
| 6 | Amount and share of economic activity eligible under the taxonomy but not compliant with it according to 4.31 of Appendixes I and II of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable ICR |
€ 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | — % | — % | € 0 | € 0 | - % | — % |
| Amount and share of other economic activities eligible under the taxonomy but not conforming to it and not mentioned in rows 1 to 6 (above) in the denominator of the applicable RCI |
€ 85,736,797 | € 59,933,219 | 99% | 100% | € 85,736,797 | € 59,933,219 | 99.0% | 100.0% | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | |
| Amount and share of economic activities eligible under the Taxonomy but not contorming to it in the denominator ot the applicable ICR |
€ 86,231,737 | € 59,984,556 | 100% | 100% | € 86,231,737 | € 59,984,556 | 100% | 100% | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % |
Table 4: Economic activities eligible under the Taxonomy but which do not comply with it
| Amount and share (information should be presented in monetary amounts and in percentages) |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economic activities | In terms of turnover: | CapEx: | Turnover (%) | CapEx (%) | |||||
| I | Amount and share of the economic activity referred to in row 1 of Table 1 that is not eligible under the Taxonomy according fo section 4.26 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 in the denominator of the applicable I |
€ 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | ||||
| 2 | Amount and share of the economic activity referred to in row 1 of Table 1 that is not eligible under the Taxonomy accoding to the 1 of section 4.27 of Appendixes I and II to | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | ||||
| 3 | Amount and share of the economic activity referred to in row 1 of Table 1 that is not eligible under the Taxonomy accoding to section 4.28 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated | € 35,626 | € 42,768 | - % | - % | ||||
| 4 | Amount and share of the economic activity referred to in row 1 of Table 1 that is not eligible under the Taxonomy accoding to section 4.29 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | ||||
| 5 | Amount and share of the economic activity referred to in row 1 of Table 1 that is not eligible under the Taxonomy accoding to section 4.30 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | ||||
| 6 | Amount and share of the economic activity referred to in row 1 of Table 1 that is not eligible under the Taxonomy accoding to section 4.31 of Appendixes I and II to Delegated | € 0 | € 0 | - % | - % | ||||
| 7 | Amount and share of other economic activities not eligible under the Taxonomy and not mentioned in rows 1 to 6 (above) in the denominator of the applicable ICR | € 627,731,142 | € 638,089,641 | 100.0% | 100.0% | ||||
| 8 | Amount and share of economic activities not eligible under the Taxonomy in the denominator of the applicable ICR |
€ 627,766,768 | € 638, 132,409 | 100% | 100% |
In 2023, a new organisational structure was implemented in the company in line with the organisation's guiding principles: operational efticiency and profitability, digital transformation, a focus on customers and multisegment management. This new organisation will help leverage internal strengths and respond nimbly to market challenges.
In this context, the performance management system has taken on particular importance as a key tool for developing talent and achieving commercial and sustainability goals.
The main organisational changes implemented at Línea Directa in 2023 have responded to the company's objective of becoming a large multi-segment insurer with a unified approach to the customer. To this end, new business and support teams have been created equipped with crosscutting innovation, new alliances and online
sales. The Actuarial echnical teams and the Modelling, Administration and Accounting functions have also been centralised.
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of a specific team to ledd its digital transformation process, www.
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Meanwhile, in line with the year's strategic priorities, a
reorganisation of Services and Benefits has been implemented, involving both_ middle management and the area's own in of a bolly - Infantation - management - and - mor - arou - - office
management. The aim of the restructuring is to improve service
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In 2023, new talent attraction and selection programmes and new succession plans have been designed, in line with the new Talent in organisational changes, either in their functions, in an area move or in a change of manager within their department.
In this context of organisational change, change management has been key to the transformation of the company. It has been vital to develop good strategy in internal communications, training and development to give confidence and stability to all departments. In this regard, a range of support actions have been implemented to ensure thạt each Línẹa Directa employee feels supported whẹn taking on new functions. This support begins on the first day, with an ad
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employee, and ends after employees leave the compan offboarding model, according to which the People Care feam listens to employees ending their time at Línea Directa, with the aim of identifying areas for improvement.
During 2023, línea Directa's People and Communications team focused on offering employees opportunities for growth and ensuring the health of professionals in the company, with an emphasis on prevention, emotional health and psychosocial risk management. It 'also continued to build a unique employee experience, with a wide range of corporate benefits and perks.
In this context, the People Care team, which is dedicated to the care and well-being of employees and the development of various programmes and measures to meet their needs, has become very important. When it comes to communicating with employees, the company has powerful digital tools at its disposal, such as the
employee service channel or LidlA, the artificial intelligence chatbot that can be used to ask questions or make requests.
Línea Directa Group has its own Diversity and Inclusion Policy approved by the Board of Directors, setting out the principles with which the company operates in this area. The principles set out in this Policy are:
This Policy also sets out the company's key commitments regarding generational, functional, cultural, gender and sexual orientation generalonal; nortional; continues of diversity filling of its internal vacancies.
Línea Directa is a_member of the European Diversity Charter promoted by the European Commission, through which private institutions and organisations contribute to creating an environment mandine and organism somewold comments of the with the
and society more diverse and respective . In 2023, the Charter with the
European anifdiscrimination directives. In 202 principles:
In terms of talent attraction and recruitment procedures, the company has a selection procedure and a recruitment procedure in place to
ensure that all of its processes observe the following:
A Diversity Advisory committee was set up in 2023, made up of
members of the Management committee and advised by a working
group including employees at different levels of re objective of the commitfee, which is led by the People department, is to approve the diversity strategy, as well as to ensure compliance with the established action plan.
The company's diversity strategy is based on 4 fundamental pillars:
The main tasks of Línea Directa's Diversity Committee include
drawing up a Diversity Action Plan, establishing KPls for monitoring, creating a Diversity Map and raising awareness among the workforce.
In 2023, the company has carried out different initiatives in order to promote diversity inside and outside the organisation.
Línea Directa has an Equality Plan and an Equality, Inclusion and Non-discrimination Policy approved by its Board of Directors. It also has an equality technical team made up of experts in people management.
The main commitments included set out in the Equality Plan are as follows:
· Equal access to employment, recruitment and termination.
The principles and lines of action of the Equality, Inclusion and Nondiscrimination Policy are as follows:
Línea Directa also has a Harassment Prevention Protocol in place, publicly available to all employees, and which sets out the principles of action in this area, as well as the procedure for reporting, handling and resolving these situations. These are some of the main measures taken to promote equality:
· Mandatory chapters on equality, diversity and inclusion in training and leadership programmes.
In addition to the Equality Policy and the Anti-Harassment Protocol, Línea Directa is committed to training as the main tool to encourage respect for diversity and equality in the organisation.
As a result, in 2023 we have continued to provide training plans on equality, genderbased violence and diversity for team leaders and
technical recruitment staff, as well as awareness-raising days for the entire workforce.
Línea Directa supports the principle of equal pay for women and
men for work of equal value, through measures and mechanisms of pay transparency that complement the current legislation. It has an uptodate ad hoc job evaluation model in place and bases its remuneration model on sound parameters of fairness.
As part of its commitment to equality, non-discrimination and inclusion, the company is a signatory to the following codes of conduct, networks' of companies, séctors and foundations that promote all the principles set out herein:
· United Nations Global Compact, a UN initiative that encourages companies to align their strategies and
operations with 10 universal principles, including on human
participates by promoting work groups in talent attraction and selection.
The company's chain of command receives annual training in the
detection and prevention of gender-based violence, in collaboration with a specialised foundation.
There are also two annual awarenessraising campaigns with various
activities for the entire workforce, coinciding with 225 November
(International Day for the Elimination of and 8 March (International Women's Day).
For years, Línea Directa has been involved in a School of For your and and and the company's group of volunteers, which
Irains women victims of gender violentee to prepare and conduct job
itrains women victims of gender violentling market.
Línea Directa Aseguradora is once again among the 50 companies with the best capacity to attract talent in Spain according to the Merco Talent ranking. In the last tinancial year, the company moved up two positions in the ranking, from 45th to 43rd place. It has also renewed its Top Employers certification, making it a benchmark in this field.
Línea Directa's talent attraction strategy, under the slogan "Línea
Directa DNA" (Agile, Different, VVe care about people - DNA for the slogan's acronym in Spanish), aims to attract the best professionals to meet the company's current and future challenges. To this end, it is important to consider the people perspective when defining the business strategy in order to identify the talent required in the short, medium and long ferm.
The focus of Línea Directa's employer brand strategy is the projection of an honest and transparent image of its projects and corporate . The all of the communication campaign translating as "make it bigg,
make it Linea Directa", published on online in throughout 2022
employees shored firsthand the projects i immersed and in which they are protagonists.
The company has made a commitment to improve the digitalisation of the selection process, the implementation of advanced selection and analysis tools and the promotion of the new channels for attracting young talent created in 2022. In this regard, línea Directa is committed to the use of different communication channels (digital and telephone, including WhatsApp) and social media.
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strategy, in 2023 age configure and mew and and the many of candidate, promoting the use of fechnologies and data, innovative tools and social media channels, allowing it to provide a 'human and unique experience.
In 2023, the company also launched "always on" selection processes", allowing a continuous dialogue with candidates on
topics that capture their interest. Throughout this initiative, the applicant and find out their motivations for joining línea Directa. Moreover, the company's participation in business schools, (1960) information and boosting the company's notoriety in the process of attracting talent.
The experience for new recruits begins with the Attraction Plan and the positioning of the company as an ideal place to work, continues with the selection process, and ends with the onboarding programme. This process is accompanied by personalised support
and a specific training plan to make the recruit feel like a part of Línea Directa Group from day one.
Linea Directa focuses on segmented and specialised searches through different channels to position the company and attract talent. It is present on the most important portals, on the job boards of the main business schools in the country, on social networks such as LinkedIn and TikTok and on the website 'Un Futuro Asegurado' of Estamos Seguros, a sectorial project to attract talent promoted by
UNESPA, the business association of the insurance sector.
In 2023, the organisation has welcomed 34 new employees in
strategic areas such as Technology, Digital Transformation, the Technical area, Finance, Risk Andlysis, Compliance, People and Customer Service Teams are continuously reinforced.
To recruit commercial talent, two campaigns were launched on social media to communicate the company's strengths under the
creative concept that translates as "Let's Be Direct", with a dedicated landing page for candidates to upload their application quickly and easily.
In attracting general talent, Línea Directa has a specitic policy in place in which the following principles stand out:
In 2022, the company redefined the candidate journey map, which in 2022, has allowed it to identify those touch points that are key to generating a differentiating experience.
In addition, candidate satisfaction measurement has been incorporated through questionnaires that allow us to understand the perception of the new employee and also measure their level of satisfaction with the selection and recruitment process.
The onboarding of back office staff includes the following key
milestones, which are followed up on:
· Before joining, the candidate is in permanent contact with the person from the Human Resources selection team who has been in charge of the recruitment process. They also have access to an App that guides them during théir first month of work, providing them with practical information
(car parks, cateterias, etc.) and corporate information that will help them in their integration process.
For front office employees, i.e. those who have direct contact with customers_in the call_centre, onboarding includes specific insurance training. The aim is for them to be ready to serve customers from all business segments: Motor, Home, and Health, with an customerspecific and personalised programme.
Young talent and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) are key for Línea Directa Aseguradora.
As a result, the organisation took on 54 interns last year, many of
whom were gaining their first work experience. Of these, 15 are STEM profiles.
The company is also launching numerous initiatives to raise awareness among this audience:
· Presence at trade fairs and universities with presentations by the heads of the various departments, including Téchnology, Actuarial, Finance, Marketing and Digital.
· Reinforcement of the TikTok channel and strong presence on social media, following a talent attraction strategy launched in 2022 and reinforced in 2023 with specific campaigns to raise awareness among younger audiences. With this strategy, the company aims to bring its hallmarks, such as its values, working environment, commitment to closer to the STEM community. The company's TikTok
account had reached 22,300 followers by the end of 2023.
Once recruits are integrated into the organisation, they are involved in the Young Talent Programme through, consisting of:
During 2023, four challenges were laid out in the company's roadmap:
This strategy has been accompanied by a new culture of professional development and personalised training for all employees.
The new environment and the new organisational roadmap require agility in adapting to change and in promoting team motivation and professional development campaign that translates as "Reevolve" and is based on three key pillars:
While in 2022 the company focused on employee motivation through "Conversations on Development" with its managers, and promoting self-learning through digital tools and training courses on @prende and linkedin learning, in 2023 different initiatives have
been implemented aimed at loyally and a commiment to internal talent. These include a programme to identify critical positions, identify potential talent, and set up accelerated dévelopment plans.In addition, in order to align the strategy and culture of innovation, multidisciplinary innovation groups have been created in the organisation in which people iwith very diverse profiles and
experiences participate. Finally, in order to reinforce the professional development strategy, new training programmes have been created
for team leaders to develop their strategic skills and knowledge of business management.
Talent Management teams have played an important role in
identifying potential talent. This means identifying, together with the Management Committee, key positions in the different areas and selecting talent to fill these strategic positions in the short, medium and long term.
The objectives of this plan, implemented in 2023, are as follows:
Potential is identified in collaboration with team leaders through performance assessments. To this end, middle management has been
provided with the necessary tools to standardise the criteria for identifying potential throughout the company, helping leaders make decisions on possible growth paths for identified individuals.
Meanwhile, the skills needed to fill critical positions have been
identified and training and development plans have been designed to develop these skills in people with potential for career growth.
In the organisation's roadmap, digital transformation and innovation play a key role. This is why the company runs the 10X Innovation
Programme, a business project with its own methodology that includes various innovation processes aimed at product differentiation and business growth.
In 2023, several innovation groups have been set up composed of
employees identified for their potential talent. These groups aim to detect new areas of business opportunity working through the following phases: exploration, ideation, volidation, and finally Innovation Programme have received training videos to learn the basic concepts in innovation methodologies and the creative process: Design Thinking, for strategic analysis applied to new business creation and value proposition; Lean Start Up, for minimum viable product creation and rapid prototype validation and learning;
and Agile methodologies for implementation and iterative and incremental new product development.
This innovation methodology aims to quickly identify customer needs, validate them through profótyping products and sérvices, and bring new products to market in record time.
The company also runs a Product committee led by the head of Marketing that sets up different strategic, operational and product approval sessions. Employees participating in the 10X Innovation Programme have been invólved in all these phases.
Línea Directa promotes various programmes to develop leadership capabilities in its chain of command. To this end, new management programmes have been introduced for team leaders to align the company's priorities with their professional development.
In this respect, the main challenges faced by middle management in the company were as tollows: improving strategic thinking, communicating and involving their teams in business goals, driving digital change, putting the customer at the centre of decisions, ensuring the commitment and alignment of their teams, developing new skills in their departments and designing new strategies in their areas of action, paying attention to the market context and the business' priorities.
In order to meet these challenges, two training courses were held in 2003. Via the Darwin Communicy: one Sintegor skills of mindgement,
in order to enhance the managerials and Sinteegt skills of minder to minder of minder of mindering of on the newer members of this community to train them in the main areas of management of the company, providing them with an overview of the organisation and preparing them for new challenges.
In a key year like 2023, marked by a new internal organisation,
training programmes to develop employees' skills and knowledge are particularly important. The main projects, aimed at improving customer expérience and responding to the company's strategic needs, included:
Línea Directa Aseguradora's Talent Communities are made up of professionals with similar skills and functions who follow specific training programmes to develop their skills and knowledge. The aim is to help these professionals succeed in their roles, achieve their value and contribute to the success of the business.
In addition to the Darwin and Crece communities, the Pi and Agile communities have become particularly important in 2023:
Pi Community The Pi community is made up of all the analysts at 1. Sollinon, The St. Schnolm (1. Sigile of States op of all the Charles on and Charles on
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increasing t face to face sessions to discuss different analytical trends with external experts from academia and business, as well as with reference people from the company to share best practices. In addition, an
analytical skills course has been developed for the Pi Community and for technology employees. This course has a programme for the development of new tools that process information more efficiently.
Agile community. The Agile Community is made up of Process and Technology teams and aims to optimise the delivery of new projects and improve customer Agile programme has been developed in the medial open developed in the medial medial medial medial medial medial medial medial me isocosses implementation of technology projects more efficient.
Línea Directa Aseguradora continuously evaluates the performance of all its professionals in order to support their professional development, measure their contribution to the company's strategy and identify their strengths and areas for improvement.
The company's strategic goals gre set by he CEO in the
performance management model. The head of each area the achievement of the company's goals. These serve as the basis for setting individual targets for each employee so that all professionals can measure their contribution to the company's strategic goals.
At this stage, the individual development action plan linked to each employee's competency profile is also defined.
Once the 2023 goals had been defined, employees held "development meetings" with their line managers, using a specific methodology developed by the Human Resources deparment and
on the use of which the entire chain of command was trained. These conversations are designed to foster a culture of development and talent, and to identify and develop the skills and knowledge necessary for employees' professional growth.
In the front office areas of the company, these conversations take place on a regular monthly basis, while in the corporate areas they take place on a semi-annual or annual basis and, in some cases, on a quarterly basis.
To conclude the cycle, a multidimensional assessment of competence development is carried out by the team leader and the employee. The team leader assesses team members' individual objectives, development action plan, competency profile and commitment, and gathers information to identify those within his team who have the potential to take on new responsibilities. At the same time, each employee self-assesses their own competences.
Once these assessments have been completed, the manager holds a performance meeting with each team member to discuss their results
and achievement of objectives, and to provide personalised feedback on their performance and development. This meeting is also an opportunity for the employee to share their objectives or goals within the organization. In 2023, Línea Directa Aseguradora carried out a performance evaluation of 98% of its employees.
Although one of Línea Directa Group's main objectives in people management is the safety and health of its employees, it believes it is also important to address the broader concept of well-being. Línea Directa runs a specific programme based on the principles of the ILO (International Labour Organisation) and the recommendations of the European Union on health and safety at work. The company is also a signatory to the Luxembourg Declaration.
In this context, Línea Directa offers its employees the "Well-being to Be Well" programme, which encompasses actions focused on improving their physical, emotional or financial health.
Throughout 2023, Línea Directa has held the following sessions:
· As part of the company's wellness and health programme, the Caring for People programme, was situations, take the emotional temperature of their teams and learn to take care of themselves in order to be able to take care of others. This is psychosocial training as part of the company's commitment to the emotional wellbeing of its employees.
The wellness programme also includes flu vaccination campaigns on company premises, where employees are vaccinated on request whenever doses are available. Also included in the programme is the "Online Doctor" benefit, which is available to more than 500 employees and allows them to use the online
medical chat service of the Línea Directa health insurance free of charge.
Similarly, Línea Directa continued to offer special prices on health insurance for employees and their families through its flexible remuneration programme.
Other benefits and activities include participation in popular races and sports tournaments, discounts at gyms, healthy menus, healthy and gluten-free products in all vending machines, healthy Christmas hampers, relaxation rooms, health awareness campaigns, special medical check-ups and discounts on physiotherapy, among others.
Línea Directa's employee wellness offer is accompanied by a strong communication plan linked to the actions to motivate employees to take up the challenge of improving their health. The programme also offers a range of different digital and exclusive confent on emotional balance, available on the company's internal training platform (@prende).
Línea Directa's wellness programme also addresses the financial well-being of its professionals through information and training hemboling of the professionals into organism and funning
programmes, as well as access to employee benefits related to
their personal finances.
In collaboration with Bankinter, the company provides information on this topic to all new employees during the induction process and
organises regular financial training sessions for all employees.
In particular, Group employees have access to webinars delivered by financial experts, focusing on credit, savings and investment products, including mortgages, investment funds and pension plans. 'As part of this, the company has developed a digital Iraining space
("School of Finance") with training content on this topic. In the year under review, intensive work was carried out on savings and financial advice at home, and employees received advice on investments and share purchases, including the línea Directa . Aseguradora share porchase plan, through the "Broker" academy.
Aso during the year, a programme was developed to bring the financial sector closer to employees and their families, reducing products.
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During 2023, línea Directa Aseguradora has developed a new employee benefit related to financial wellness. Tax Down is an application that provides the company's professionals with a digital
service to file their tax returns simply and efficiently, with a 30% discount.
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certified by the Fundación Más Familia as family-friendly companies
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The most recent audit, which was completed in October 2022, analysed the more than 130 measures the company has in place to
promote worklife balance, structured around five principles:
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As part of its commitment to the worklife balance of its employees,
Línea Directa Aseguradora has developed a system of flexible working hours. Employees who are not in direct contact with customers have one hour's flexibility at the time of entry and, consequently, at the time of exit. This measure cannot be applied to call centre staff, as they must adhere strictly to planned schedules to ensure good customer service.
During 2023, and as an additional measure to improve the work-life balance, Línea Directa has added an extra day to its employees' holidays from 2024.
All information related to these worklife balance policies is available
to the Group's professionals through the employee portal, and hey
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To further facilitate work-life balance, Línea Directa Aseguradora has implemented a flexible working model that allows all employees to work from home
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Línea Directa Aseguradora places people at the centre of all its decisions, which means that it is necessary to establish a relationship between the company and its employees that creates an atmosphere of trust, in which all employees feel that they are valued and listened to.
This relationship is shaped by the Group's corporate values and is based on proximity and transparency; the pulse of the organisation is taken every two years through a survey of the entire workforce. In the latest one, conducted in 2023, the company took its methodology a step further to be able to anqlyse the experience of its employees in a more personalised way, allówing the Group to draw conclusions
by employee groups and according to professional and life cycles at Línea Directa.
As a company aware of its responsibilities towards family and society, Línea Directa Group organises the working hours of its employees so that they can reconcile their personal and professional lives. To this end, it felies on the autonomy and flexibility derived
from the new ways of working offered by new technologies.
In this regard, Línea Directa, in addition to adhering to the Insurance and Reinsurance Agreement with regard to digital disconnection, has an Internal Digital Disconnection Policy that was created with the aim of reinforcing this commitment.
This policy, expressly recognises the right of employees not to respond to business communications outside working hours, except in cases of legitimate urgency, and team leaders are encouraged to avoid such communications. In fact, the newly introduced
technological systems include, for example, warnings that it is not advisable to send messages outside working hours.
The digital tools available to the Group's employees enable them to work collaboratively, regardless of whether they work in person or remotely, and the company has taken special care to ensure that the right to digital disconnection is maintained in this situation. To this end, regular training and awarenessraising activities have been
carried out in recent years to optimise the organisation of work, focusing on respect for employees' agendas and schedules, as well as on planning and information on the need for and advisability of attending meetings and recommendations for limiting their duration. Meanwhile, workshops on time management on digital platforms and awareness-raising actions on the appropriate use of technological tools were organised, all with the aim of avoiding the risk of computer tatigue.
The insurance sector is characterised by the generation of stable and quality employment, and is currently one of the ten sectors in Spain
that best remunerates its professionals. At línea Directa Aseguradora, the total remuneration programme is one of the levers for retaining talent in the organisation.
The company has a total compensation platform available in the employee portal where employees can consult all the elements that are part of their remuneration package. The information includes fixed remuneration, variable remuneration linked to objectives and remuneration in kind, such as life and accident insurance, as well as the various social benefits and advantages they are eligible for as
employees of línea Directa, such as a flexible remuneration programmes and discounts on all the company's products.
The variable remuneration of the Group's professionals is determined by the monthly, quarterly and annual incentive programme, which is linked to the achievement of the company's objectives, the area's
objectives and the professional development of each employee. Through this incentive plan, professionals can achieve targets beyond 100% and receive a very attractive variable compensation on top of their fixed salary.
In addition to the instruments required by current legislation, this total remuneration platform is an example of the company's commitment to the principle of transparency in remuneration, the main purpose of which is to ensure the effective application of the principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination in remuneration between women and men.
Due to the increase in the cost of living as a result of inflation in the last two years, Línea Directa Aseguradora made a one off extraordinary payment to all its employees in January 2023, with the exception of the management team, equivalent to 1% of
their fixed salary, with a minimum of € 300.
All Línea Directa employees have lite and accident insurance trom the moment they join the company, with an insured capital_of f 27,000 for employees with temporary or internship contracts. For all
other employees, the sum insured is the result of multiplying the basic full-time salary by three taken to the next higher multiple of
30,050. In addition, the insured capital covers the contingencies of
death and disability and is doubled in the event of death resulting trom an accident.
Línea Directa has in place a savings and retirement plan through which the company makes an annual defined contribution for each employee, thereby honouring its commitment to reintorcing the retirement pensions of employees.
In addition to the normal retirement contingency, this system also covers death and disability of any kind and allows the consolidation of rights accumulated in the collective insurance for professionals.
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In 2022, Línea Directa launched its first share purchase plan aimed at employees. By joining this plan, employees more of of other of of
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Línea Directa offers its employees an attractive package of corporate benefits and advantages that strengthen employee loyalty and invite
them to get to know the company's products in depth. The most relevant of these include:
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To calculate this adjusted gap, employees are grouped into clusiers consisting of people performing similar duties or performing a similar job.
The gap in each cluster is identified and, to determine the overall gap, it is weighted by the number of people in each cluster. The gap
calculation is performed on a month-by-month basis to ensure that each person is compared with their peers monthly. The calculation formula is as follows:
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The gap in each cluster is calculated as follows:

One of the main objectives of people management in Línea Directa Group is to ensure the safety and health of employees. Linea Directa' has joined the Luxembourg Declaration, promotion since 8) 17 Ceroped I (commits itself to accepting and imments) and imments
the basic objectives of workplace health promotion ondersendent
the basic objectives of workplace health
Línea Directa also has a welfare programme that is based on the
principles of the International Labour Organisation (ILQ) and complies with European Union (EU) recommendations on health and safety at work.
The assessment of risks and hazards in the work environment is crucial for the design of risk control activities and the management of the prevention system.
In 2023, the company updated its Occupational Risk Prevention and 17 2020, mis Sompany opening no only him book and commitment to ensuring the health and safely of the people who provide their services af Línea Directa.
These commitments include the periodic review of working conditions, the replacement of hazardous elements, the identification
of external and internal factors affecting health and safety, the provision of medical surveillance that respects privacy, the and awareness-raising of staff, the promotion of physical and
emotional well-being and the organisation of emergency teams with annual arills.
In addition to these commitments, the policy sets out a number of objectives. The first of these focuses on setting quantitative targets to improve occupational safety, covering incidence rates, number of
absences, average duration of absences, frequency and severity rates. Other objectives include ensuring the health of employees through medical check-ups and wellness campaigns, developing training in the prevention of occupational risks, implementing emergency plans, promoting employee, participation and consultation, ensuring proper coordination of business activities with suppliers working in Linea Directa's work centres, and ensuring that suppliers comply with standards. In addition, a pre-audit for sophiers of compry of min be carried out, with a particular focus on the supervision of top management and governing bodies.In 2023, in addition to updating this policy, initiatives will be launched to improve psychosocial health through mindfulness and emotional management campaigns as part of the company's wellness plan. Similarly, in the area of occupational risk prevention, theoretical and practical training in first aid, fire fighting and evacuation of designated emergency personnel has been reinforced.
In terms of the number of accidents at work, Línea Directa has a lower accident rate than the sector as a whole. In 2023, there were 22 accidents, the same as in the previous year. Accidents in 2023 were in itinere and work is being carried out on road safety training and information for employees through training videos to prevent accidents and raise awareness, in addition to organising a Road
Safety Day for its employees at Línea Directa's facilities.
In 2023, work has been carried out on various action plans based on the Psychosocial Factors Study prepared in 2022, which arose from a survey of employees with the aim of ensuring the health and emotional well-being of the workforce. The results have highlighted the points most valued by the people in the organisation and the areas for improvement.
In 2023, the company focused on measures for employees. The following stand out:
· With a view to improving emotional wellbeing, the wellness
programme has included specific actions related to emotional well-being, such as a mindfulness course, back workshop, publication of a study on emotional rumination with renowned psychologists and employee talks with specialists.
Of particular relevance is the workshop for business coordinators and supervisors, which focuses on caring for people from a psycho-emotional perspective. Under the guidance of an expert in the field, teams leaders in Línea Directa will receive training aimed at accompanying people, understanding their emotional state and finding solutions that will help the whole team to work in an environment of trust and security.
Línea Directa Aseguradora is equipped with the necessary resources to support and advise the company in the adoption of the relevant preventive measures.
The company takes charge, with its own resources, of the preventive
specialities of Occupational Safety, Occupational Thygiene and
Ergonomics and Applied Psychosociology prov specific regulations on the prevention of occupational risks, through a senior technician who holds the post of head of Occupational Risk Prevention at Línea Directa. The preventive speciality of Health Surveillance is contracted out to an external prevention service. The in-house prevention service assumes responsibility for maintaining appropriate coordination with the external prevention service and with the external specialist advisors who may be commissioned to implement specific prevention measures.
In 2022, Línea Directa Aseguradora launched an organisational and strategic transformation that is key to the company's future. Paying attention to people's needs and managing change has been vital in turning this process into new professional development opportunities for the people in the organisation.
In this context, employee relations have been based on close attention to people, supporting employees at times when they need it most, but also implementing specialised training programmes, promoting multidisciplinarity and strengthening the expertise of teams to prepare them to successfully meet the challenges of change.
Moreover, in order to increase both productivity and staff well-being, introducing a mixed system that combines presence in the offices with remote working modalities, allowing the company's employees to manage their time and workspace effectively.
Finally, the measurement of employee experience has been changed to a new, more sophisticated survey system that helps us to
understand the mix of facts and perceptions that influence a better employee experience. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the level of engagement in relation to each employee's life and technological innovations implemented in employee relations and communications through the use of artificial intelligence.
Organisational and cultural change management has been has been a challenge and an opportunity for growth and development for everyone in the organisation. The People area has played a central role in preparing the Business and Service and Benefits areas for this transformation, providing specialised training and promoting a multidisciplinary approach to strengthen the expertise and skills of the teams.
Throughout this transformation, which is fundamental to the future of the company, the People and Communications area has focused on supporting employees and the chain of command along the process. To this end, 2023 has worked with the business units to address the specific needs of each team and to ensure a harmonious transition that respects their particularities.
Special attention has also been paid to the emotional management of change. The proximity of the People area to the business means that it is actively involved at critical moments. Línea Directa is very committed to thé emotional wellbeing of its employees and is aware that change can create uncertainty. For this reason, a permanent presence of the People teams has been established in all the company's buildings. This physical presence not only facilitates communication and the resolution of doubts, but also underlines the company's commitment to being close to its employees during this process of change, demonstrating its availability to support them at all times.
Línea Directa Aseguradora's employees have access to appropriate
digital tools, which are a stategic tool for promoting work flexibility and employee wellbeing. With these technologies, the company
promotes an agile and adaptable working environment,
implementing a blended working system that combines in-office presence with flexible or remote working, taking into account the different needs and working styles of each team.In managing this system of flexibility, the Group's employees have access to the company's IT systems. This autonomy reintorces Línea Directa's vision of creating a working environment based on trust and individual responsibility. Employees, in close collaboration with their optimise their time and well-being.
In addition, following specialist remote leadership training delivered during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, known internally as Digitleads, managers are leading mixed face-to-face and remote
teams, effectively managing the different realities imposed by the flexible model
The company has set up various direct digital communication channels with employees through which information flows in all
directions, thanks to the publicly accessible employee channel and the management of the People Care team.
The Group has set up various internal communication channels:
As part of the process of digitising employee communications, in
2022 the company launched the "LidlA" chatbot, a virtual assistant on the company's intranet programmed to answer employees' key ണിതം ശണ്വാ നിവിത programmer. In 2023, at will gecending
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This proof of concept was carried out throughout the year by the People and Communication teams, as well as the Architecture specialists in the Technology area. A roadmap for HR projects has been drawn up, developing short and long term frameworks and a change management plan that addresses the adoption of artificial intelligence by considering not only processes and technology, but also people.
At a technical and project level, a website was developed
connected to the Azure Open Al technology, focusing on defining the content to be addressed by the Al, in Tine with everything that already exists in the company's employee portal, as well as the tone
of voice that the artificial intelligence of 'LidlA' should have, so that it
is consistent with the communication style and culture of Línea Directa.
Once this project has been successfully validated in a virtual
environment, the goal for 2024 is to unify internal information to standardise it with artificial intelligence and to integrate 'LidlA' into other areas of the company's operations, streamlining not only communication but also business processes.
Línea Directa Aseguradora has taken another step forward in measuring employee experience. Previously, the company had
conducted surveys in different cycles (oneoff and annual) to gauge the mood of the organisation at a particular point in time. In 2023, we worked on a holistic and sophisticated measurement project that allows us to draw conclusions by type of employee, according to their life cycle in the organisation and their personal and professional reality, among other criteria.
This model seeks to identify which moments are key, in the
employee's relationship with the company and how they affect their commitment and motivation. In a time of change management such as the present, this will enable the People area to configure specific
and adaptable action plans based on this knowledge, thus helping to achieve better business results.
This project has been implemented based on tour fundamental pillars:
All employees of Línea Directa Group are subject to the collective bargaining agreement that applies in each workplace of the companies that make up the Group:
The Group has several union sections exercising their rights in
accordance with the Organic Law on Freedom of Association.
Information and consultations with employees (opinion surveys, EFR postbox, psychosocial risk assessment, etc.) are of utmost importance for the company to know how employees perceive their working conditions and to be able to implement appropriate action plans if necessary.
Línea Directa's firm commitment to diversity, inclusion and, in particular, to the integration of people with functional disabilities, has a long history and has enabled the company to win prestigious awards and certifications over the years. Today, this commitment has
evolved to adapt to the new legislative framework on sustainability, to integrate it into the ESG axes and to respond to the new sociál and economic context.
One of the key pillars in this area is the inclusion of employees with
a disability certificate. With this goal in mind, in 2009 Linea Directa launched the No Limits programme, which addresses diversity in the workplace from four perspectives: attracting talent with different abilities, highlighting internal diversity, developing and participating in social inclusion projects and confributing to the employability of this group through special employment centres (CEE).
The programme includes a guide or tutor who guarantees a working environment and a welcoming process adapted to the needs of the guide also advises and accompanies people enrolled in the programme through the procedures, guaranteeing them confidentiality throughout the process.
In this way, línea Directa promotes the integration of people with different abilities from the moment they join the company,
ensuring their participation in the company and the development of their talents.
The programme also includes technical aids to remove or reduce physical barriers and professional advice from specialist agencies
sych as the Randstad Foundation. No Limits includes the You Add Plan, which offers advice to all employees who have a family
member with a disability.
Línea Directa collaborates with other foundations and associations in various projects for the sociooccupational integration of people with disabilities, for which it has a network of volunteers who offer their knowledge, experience and time to design and run employment
workshops. For example, the company offers work placements to young people with disabilities from the Aprocor Foundation and organises inclusive leisure activities, such as charity markets where the products are made by specialised centres.
In addition to No Limits, Línea Directa has other corporate volunteering programmes that enable it to work with groups at risk of social exclusion:
At the end of the year, the Línea Directa Group was employing 39
people with some form of disability, representing, 1.6% of the workforce. In 2022, the entity had 39 employees with a disability, representing 1.54% of the workforce in that year.
All the workplaces of the Línea Directa Group are accessible. In addition, the company works on communication and awareness and only hite oompany home on exemally
The criteria adopted to improve the accessibility of the Linea Directa
Asegurador website (https:// www.lineadirectrasseguradora.com
are based on the VVCAG/WAl guidelines Consortium (VV3C), an international consortium that develops
recommendations and standards to ensure the use and development of the internet.
In this sense, the development of the Línea Directa Aseguradora website has been based on compliance with the W3C-WAI WCAG 2.1 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, in its AA level of requirement. A specialist consultancy was commissioned to carry out
an accessibility audit in accordance with the requirements of WCAG 2.1.
Línea Directa Aseguradora was founded 28 years ago with strong values of responsibility, involved in the communities in
which it operates and committed to the progress of society.
The main social contribution from Group is made by Línea Directa Foundation, which covers research, dissemination, training and
social action in the field of road safety.
In 2023, Línea Directa Foundation published three road safety studies with a strong media impact and carried out road safety training for the company's employees.
Línea Directa Group actively participates in insurance sector organisations such as ICEA, which is dedicated to research, statistical studies, training and consultancy applied to the insurance sector, and UNESPA, the association that represents the insurance sector in society.
At an international level, Línea Directa joined, in early 2023, the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) initiative, which provides a global action plan to develop and scale the innovative insurance and risk management solutions needed to promote renewable energy, clean water, food security, sustainable cities and disaster-resilient communities.
The amount allocated by the company to support these sectoral
initiatives was € 136,121 in 2023, and € 126,632 in 2022.
Línea Directa Group, as a sign of its commitment to society, has
contributed € 572,164 to foundations and non-profit organisations, mainly for investment in the community and to a lesser extent for totalled € 658,061 in 2022.
Línea Directa also promotes the social commitment of its employees by supporting activities carried out through corporate volunteering in
collaboration with various foundations, associations and NGOs.
Insurance companies, as an integral part of the tinancial system, have an obligation to society by virtue of their role as investors and the ultimate destination of the capital flows they manage.
Línea Directa's asset portfolio, valued at € 936 million at year-end 2023, is regularly evaluated against environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria and pyblished quarterly with the company's financial results. This information is taken from the Sustainalytics tool provided by Morningstar, one of the benchmark companies in its segment. This tool facilitates the automated
investment and help integrate sustainability issues into investment decisions.

* Off-balance sheet capital gains on investment property and property for
own use amount to € 31 million before tax.
Linea Directa's investment and divestment decisions are governed by the principles set out in its Sustainable Investment Policy, approved by the Board of Directors in mid-2022. In this policy, the 'Group actively promotes the integration of these criteria in its investment decisions, limiting its participation as an investor in organisations, projects or products that may encourage or cause serious breaches 'due to their'economic activity being linked to controversial sectors or
being related to fossil fuels.
The company's sustainable investment strategy has been shaped by the European Commission's strong commitment to sustainable financé in recent years. This has led it to consider ESG issues in its investment policies and even in the definition of commitments to limit exposure to some controversial sectors. It has also helped to define a roadmap for decarbonising investment portfolios.
At the same time, the regulatory pressure from the reporting
requirements arising from the entry into force of the Taxon ing
Regulation on the investiment porthlins of finish that companies face when assessing the degree of alignment of their
activity with the Taxonomy. Línea Directa's report in this regard is included in the chapter "Adaptation to climate change". However, the lack of public disclosure from unlisted companies and the staggered timetable for listed companies poses an even greater challenge for financial institutions, as the relevant information is not always available.
After nearly two decades of fighting road accidents, Línea Directa Aseguradora created its own foundation in 2014 to further strengthen its commitment to safe and sustainable mobility. 10 years after its creation, Linea Directa Foundation has become a frue reference in the field of road safety, promoting numerous initiatives to combat a tragedy that every year forever marks the lives of thousands of people in Spain.
In 2024, Línea Directa Foundation, a non-profit organisation which,
under the slogan "Here and Now" is dedicated to the fight against road accidents, celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Foundation,
which has already become a benchmark in the field, draws on the Línea Directa's long experience in road satety. It works on four fronts: Research, Dissemination, Social Action and Training, through which it promotes and develops powerful initiatives with great social impact.
Among them we find numerous studies that analyse the most relevant
aspects of accidents, always with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of maintaining responsible driving habits.
These studies seek to offer a holistic view of the phenomenon of traffic and accidents, providing innovative approaches that help fight against road mortality and injuries.
Línea Directa organises each year the Road Safety Journalism Awards, one of the leading competitions in the Spanish journalistic field which, year after year, recognises those journalistic works which, due to their originality and quality, can make a decisive contribution to raising awareness among drivers of the need to drive responsibly.
The event, which celebrated its twentieth edition in 2023, also honours institutions, foundations and organisations that have made outstanding contributions to the fight against road accidents, as well as the careers of prominent journalists and media professionals who have dedicated their careers to informing, investigating and raising awareness of road safety in society.
Línea Directa Foundation also promotes a programme of start-up accelerators, an activity it carries out through its Road Safety and Entrepreneurs Award, a competition that funds projects that, due to their particular relevance, can contribute to saving lives on Spain's roads. In addition, the Foundation carries out numerous training and
social action activities in collaboration with other foundations, organisations and institutions in Spain.
Thanks to its strong commitment to road safety and despite its young age, the Línea Directa Foundation has been recognised by the government with important awards, including the Silver Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Civil Guard and the Bronze Medal for Road Safety, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior and
Directorate-General for Traffic (DGT).
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* Teodoro García-Egea was a member of the Board of Trustees of Línea Directa Foundation until March 2023.
Since its creation ten years ago, línea Directa Foundation, in
collaboration with leading institutes, foundations and universities, has carried out important studies aimed at making Spaniards aware of the risks involved in driving. Each year if focuses on three issues which, because of their interest and importance, represent a major challenge
In 2023, Línea Directa Foundation has published 3 studies that have had a strong impact on the media, with more than 800 news
appearances and a cumulative audience of more than 398 million.
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Distractions are one of the great challenges in the fight against road
accidents. One of the main conclusions of this report is that 1 in 3 fatal accidents in Spain is caused by a lack of concentration while
driving. arring his more recorded in Spain, resoluling in occords.
distracted driving were recorded in Spain, resulting in of, 2006
deaths. Incidents are also becoming more lethal, wi
Distractions are generally caused by one of three leading causes,
according to the reports: absent-minded driving, firedness and പ്രാമ്പരിച്ച്
The second study of the year, presented in July 2023 to coincide
with the forthcoming summer holiday traffic received a great deal of million comborning cominer morities findings. E were are are and only and only in the world of the more of online of online of online of online of on
long journeys during the
3,300 deaths and 234,000 wounded, amounting to 5 deaths per day, making summer the most dangerous time of year for road
safety, with a fatality rate 20% higher than the rest of the year.
The report was accompanied by a survey, the results of which speeding during their summer journeys and some 6 million (23%)
admit to drinking alcohol at rest stops.
(2012-2021)
The Foundation's third study in 2023 highlighted a serious historical
problem: passive safety tests have so far failed to take into production in croshows: 1 100, poscesses in the same aller and manages
hore, mille mate and a Shipension in the more, and minimalian
percential mule and a Shipense the mass o has developed a computerised crash test with two 50th percentile natels for men and women, with some surprising conclusions: in a
frontal impact, women are twice as likely to suffer a severe brain
injury and 50% more likely to suffer a sk
Moreover, seatbelt design fosters the "submarining" effect for female drivers: slippage in the seat that can cause significant internal injuries
due to the pressure of the lower band on the stomach.
Línea Directa Foundation's Road Safety Journalism Award is one
of the most recognised initiatives in Spanish journalism. The competition, which celebrated its 20th edition last year, aims to encourage the publication and dissemination of reports and articles on road safety, always with the aim of promoting road satety among drivers.
In 2023, the Línea Directa Foundation Road Safely Journalism Award
celebrated its 20th edition at the Gran Teatro Príncipe Pío in Madrid. The competition rewards the best journalistic works published and broadcast in Spain in the written bress, online media, radio and
television, with a net prize of € 10,000 for each category.
The Foundation also presented the Solidarity Award for Road Safety, an annual prize of € 10,000 net awarded to organisation's, institutions and foundations that have distinguished themselves നാമിക്കും അവിടം
The winners, chosen from more than 2,000 entries, were Leitia
Núñez, Isabel Martín and Patricia Corral from Diario de Burain
(written press and online media), A
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The components of the Jury of the 20th edition were:
Línea Directa Foundation's research and dissemination aim to promote road safety knowledge in society and to serve different groups that, due to their vulnerability, require a relationship based on cooperation and mutual learning. As part of its social action, the Foundation also organises the annual Road Safely and
Entrepreneurs
Training and social action are two of the main lines of action of Línea Directa Foundation, with the aim of disseminating the most relevant aspects of accidents, as well as their causes and
consequences. These lines of action seek to respond to the needs and concerns of different associations and groups which, because of their vulnerability, reguire a relationship based on cooperation, awareness and mutual learning.
In 2023, Línea Directa Foundation held the Línea Directa Road
Safety Day, the aim of which was to disseminate safe driving habits among the company's employees, for which purpose if made
available to the entire workforce four simulators that recreated and books for the william of the comments and a managements and seconded
were adder to specifica and some of a complet of more compresses semperations compressioners proposib conditions.
The day was rounded off with two presentations by psychologists
from AESIEME (Association for the Study of Spinal Cord Injury) to the
company's personal injury specialists, in which they stressed the need
to promote empathy and closeness with the injured and their families.
Catalonian startup Engidi wins the 9th edition of Línea Directa
Foundation's Road Safety and Entrepreneurs Award. This Barcelonabased technology firm designs and manufactures loT
electronic devices that can be included in the PPE (Personal Bronomic as now of the open by workers geed thig in high in and the more of the more of the more of the more of the more of the more of the more of them with
road constitutio
The contest is endowed with a prize of € 20,000 €net without carryover, as well as access to training and mentoring. At a later stage, they will also be able to access financing rounds organised
by Bankinter's Foundation for Innovation and IESE Business School.
The second placed startup at this edition was Sevillion firm, Andalusian start-up presented a smart device that features a dual and hose and of of OSP a skind in a more no more energener of model of model
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seevices in the affected.
The 5 finalists of this edition presented their proposals in an elevator pitch format to a jury of eight renowned professionals from the administration:
At the end of 2023, Línea Directa Foundation had a community of 4,570 followers on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, 3.6% more than the previous year, a growth achieved without recruitment campaigns.
By promoting and developing these channels, línea Directa Foundation iš committed to immediate, transporent and agale
communication with the public, always with the aim of continuing ha promote cars anning habitation and the history of road sales), and sales,
therefore one of the main communication tools for commitments
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The Linea Directa Group offers its employees the opportunity to join
its network of volunteers, called "Conmovedores línea Directa", whose aim is to promote social and environmental commitment and involvement, and to carry out actions with a high environmental impact. Corporate Volunteering was launched in 2009 and currently has 169 volunteers.
Since 2022, the social action of Línea Directa Aseguradora has been effectively integrated into the sustainability strategy under the name
"Línea Directa Movement". This terminology is intended to make social action visible and comprehensive, and to provide a framework for corporate volunteering. It also seeks to make a call to action with the network aims to incorporate social action and sustainability programmes that address all the solidarity concerns of the company's employees.
All Conmovedores volunteer activities are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with priorities in the areas of inclusion,
children, equality, sustainability, health, transparency, diversity and the elderly.
This year, volunteering has focused on actions targeting children, young
people and adults at risk of social exclusion, people with disabilities, women in situations of genderbased violence and the elderly, in
particular to reduce the digital divide for the elderly; it brings added value to communities, strengthens organisational culture internally and
enables the development of new competences, skills and sensitivities in the participating volunteers and in their professional environment.
The Group uses the Aplanet tool to document, quantity and categorise social action initiatives according to the type of activity carried our and
the resources allocated, enabling it to measure the contribution and impact of its social action on society.
No. of volunteers: 10
No. of beneficiaries: 86
During the year, volunteers from Línea Directa Aseguradora conducted 8 employment workshops and job preparation days as part of the Integra Foundation's Empowerment School job placement programme, focusing on these moments of truth in the job search:
In these workshops, examples and role plays were used to analyse
and deal with the different situations that can arise during a job interview, both individually and in a group.
The beneficiaries of the Integra Foundation are people with disabilities, groups at risk of exclusion and women in' situations of gender-based violence.
No. of volunteers: 12
No. of beneficiaries: 10
This action, carried out in collaboration with the Integra Foundation, consisted of a training workshop for people at risk of social exclusion with the aim of reducing their digital divide and improving their employability.
The training took place over two full days, during which volunteers mo from linea Directa Aseguradora shared their knowledge of digital
from Línea Directa Aseguradora shared their knowledge of digital
issues with the participants.
No. of volunteers: 6
No. of beneficiaries: 20
Volunteer hours: 21
Línea Directa Group works with the Norte Joven association by andine 100 metropodie volumeering actions at trisk of exclusion people
between lity conde volumeering actions at risk of exclusions workshops, one to simulate personal job interviews and a group പ്രവിത്തിലും
No. of volunteers: 13
No. of beneficiaries: 43
On International Women's Day, 8 March, Linea Directa group
organised a day of three different activities for a group of women in a šituation of gender violence:
No. of volunteers: 18
No. of beneficiaries: 1
A new activity with 'Adopt a Grandparent' in 2023 was a cooking workshop where the company's employees learned to make torrijas
with a very experienced cook: Grandma Asun, from Adopt a Grandparent. Participating employees learnt culinary tricks of the trade and at the same time helped out.
With this action, the network of volunteers promotes the integration of the elderly by drawing attention to the personal journey of the
grandmother who accompanied the Línea Directa Aseguradora staff during the session.
No. of volunteers: 67
No. of beneficiaries: 67
For Christmas 2023, the company launched an initiative with Adopt a Grandparent to provide companionship to elderly people in nursing homes.
The initiative consists in a digital platform through which Linea
Directa employees can send letters to different grandparents in Spain who will be spending Christmas alone, making them happy at this time of year.
No. of volunteers: 2
No. of beneficiaries: 14
Volunteer hours: 32
Linea Directa
The project, organised by the Botin Foundation, brought together more than 14 NGOs and foundations. From Línea Directa, two marketing and communication professionals joined the project by
putting their knowledge at the service of the project for two full days.
No. of volunteers: 46
No. of beneficiaries: 100
Volunteer hours: 133
On the occasion of the quarterly meeting of the People, Communication and Sustainability department, the employees of the department visited the facilities of the Aprocor Foundation. Once there, after the working session, a corporate volunteering activity took place in which people from the organisation helped the association to rehabilitate a disused area of its facilities. Together they managed to turn the area into a recreational and meeting place for all the young people who study at the centre.
No. of volunteers: 6
No. of beneficiaries: 12
Volunteer hours: 12
Volunteers from Línea Directa gave a home safety workshop to young people with intellectual disabilities living in the A LA PAR Foundation's training home, where they are preparing to live independently.
In this workshop they learned about the main risks in a home: fire, possible injuries and electrical hazards. In order to avoid them, participants are taught how to prevent them and shown which tools to use if they occur.
No. of volunteers: 4
No. of beneficiaries: 17
Four volunteers from the Conmovedores network visited the El Olivo home and gave a dance workshop to the 17 children who live there.
The aim of this action, apart from imparting educational knowledge to the young people, is to spend some time with them, promote their social integration and share a pleasant moment in their company.
No. of volunteers: 51
No. of beneficiaries: 10
Volunteer hours: 102
Together with the Association for People with Disabilities in Tres Cantos (AMI3), Línea Directa organised a family reforestation day in which employees, family members and children participated.
This action aims to integrate people with disabilities, who acted as monitors for the activity, while sharing in the care and conservation
of the environment and having a positive local impact in the Tres Cantos community.
No. of volunteers: 22 volunteers
No. of beneficiaries: 17 young people from Hogar
"Become one of the three kings" is an initiative with a long tradition within the company. Every Christmas, the children at El Olivo send Línea Directa their letters to the Three Kings. The letters are distributed to different parts of the company and collection boxes are set up to collect money.
The proceeds are used to buy the gifts requested by the children and are given to them in January during a visit to El Olivo.
No. of volunteers: 12 volunteers
This is a food bank that serves more than 300 families in the Madrid region. On this occasion, the food donated by the employees of Línea Directa Aseguradora was put together in the form of Chistmas
hampers, with the aim of bringing Christmas cheer to those who need it most.
Participants: 96 Donation:
Línea Directa Group has participated in the Run Against Cancer
organised by the Spanish Association for Cancer Control (AECC) for four years. This year, the company donated more than 90 race numbers to encouráge employee participation and contribute to the cause of cancer research.
Línea Directa Group participated in the first solidarity run for the mentally handicapped, organised by the A LA PAR Foundation.
The funds raised at a solidarity flea market were used for the celebration of this run.
All gifts that arrived on Christmas 2022 for Group employees from suppliers and other companies were donated to a charity market. For
the 2023 flea market, Línea Directa Aseguradora has donated 150 refurbished computers
and 110 monitors, sold at the market at a symbolic price of € 20
and € 10 respectively. The final collection exceeded € 4,500.
The market was organised by 10 volunteers, giving suppor to the
professionals A LA MAR who manned the stalls. All professionals and the A CA Marian and Westyle will y the funds were used to organise and carry out the first edition of InRun, the first solidarity run for people with intellectual disabilities, in which almost a thousand people took part.
This year, 9 refurbished computers were donated to the Aprocor Foundation. Additionally, 6 ' reconditioned devices have ' been
donated to the A LA PAR foundation.
This equipment has been installed in one of their training rooms,
giving , young people with intellectual disabilities access to technological fools for educational purposes.
To mark World Bicycle Day, Linea Directa Aseguradora has
launched a campaign to collect bicycles to donate to the Alberty
Contact Le Le Le Le Le to people at risk of social exclusion.
In addition to corporate volunteering, a donation of € 1,486 was made to the Aprocor Foundation following the quarterly meeting of the People, Communication and Sustainability department at its tacilities.
Following the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Línea Directa launched a campaign to collect clothes and basic necessities for the victims. After contacting the Turkish embassy and various foundations working on the ground, the organisation was informed that it was
impossible to deliver the shipment.
Línea Directa's Social Action decided to redirect the collection to the victims of the war in Ukraine.
Línea Directa has a robust system for managing its value chain, from the time of approval of suppliers, to the management of tenders, to the time of contracting, adapted to the specific needs of each area of the company.
The Procurement area, which is part of the Group's financial
management, is responsible for defining the strategy and procedures and overseeing the acquisition of services and products in accordance with the strategic objectives set by the Board of Directors.
During the procurement process, this area is responsible for ensuring a full risk assessment of suppliers. In particular, the following risks are looked at: credit risk, fraud risk, cybersecurity, ethics, ESG, human resources and tax risk.
Línea Directa has a responsibility to motivate its suppliers to improve their ethical, social and environmental performance. To this end, four objectives have been set in relation to the value chain in the company's Sustainability Policy:
ln 2022 the company procedure for the evaluation and approval of suppliers.
Among the strategic lines approved in the Sustainability Plan 2023-2
2025, Línea Directa has defined a series of actions aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the value chain from a sustainability point of view.
Since the adoption of the Responsible Procurement Policy, suppliers in the approval phase have been required to completé an initial general assessment, including ESG criteria, in order to provide services or supply products to the company.
In addition, in 2023 the company developed a questionnaire covering environmental, human rights, social, talent management, information security and privacy issues to assess suppliers' ESG performance.
The purpose of this supplier analysis is to identify the sustainable development impacts that Línea Dirécta generates in its supply chain,
as well as to identify potential actions to be taken with the value chain: awareness-raising, training, support or incentives.
The Code of Conduct for suppliers is a mandatory aspect for any me Code of Conduct for supplies is a manudiny uspection any
supplier who is going to offer a service or a product to the company.
It was updated and approved by the Board of
This code aims to ensure that all suppliers and subcontractors comply
with the United Nations Global Compact, including promoting sustainable development, upholding human rights, respecting labour standards and promoting environmental protection. In short, if aims to ensure that suppliers share and respect the ethical values that guide the conduct of the Group and its employees.
The principles described in this Code of Conduct are an important part of the selection and evaluation of suppliers, and their noncompliance may also lead to termination of the contract.
The procurement process is audited internally on a regular basis. The recommendations and opportunities for improvement arising from these reviews are analysed and implemented, and the level of implementation of these recommendations and opportunities is monitored on a regular basis to ensure continuous improvement of processes.
In 2023 Línea Directa placed orders with 570 suppliers for € 167.3 million onlines produced with he Souph and Collection Collection
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The Group's high volume of local purchases is an engine of growth for the geographical areas in which Línea Directa operates, promoting the economic, industrial and social development of these 'areas by creating jobs in the companies that supply the products and services.
In 2023, Línea Directa implemented a system to manage and evaluate the ESG performance of suppliers that carry out critical operations throughout their relationship with the company, resulting in an informative report available to management.
By the end of 2023, 91% of the insurer's suppliers surveyed this year By Ho Sha of 2020) 77% of the more of evaluations survival market of the more of
Similarly, as part of a first wave of evaluations summer of
34% of the supplies in Motor's
The aim of the ESG supplier assessment is not only to select partners with the best sustainability performance, but also fo motivate them to improve their ESG performance, which will also improve their competitiveness.
In 2023, we did not identify any supplier contracts where incidents
related to freedom of association, collective bargaining, the use of child labour or forced or compulsory labour occurred, inor are we
aware of any complaints received on these grounds. As in 2022, no supplier with a significant negative social impact has been identified. Of the communications about suppliers that were registered through
the complaints channel set up for this purpose (Ethics Channel), all were investigated and no findings were confirmed in any of them.
Línea Directa Aseguradora's Customer Services area deals with customer complaints and claims, acting with complete independence from the company's business areas and in 'strict personalised attention to all incidents and a reasoned response to the customer, based on contractual clauses, transparency rules and the protection of their interests.
To this end, the company analyses the information obtained from the complaints and claims received and proposes different measures to the business areas to promote quality improvement. Incident handling includes the review of all processes related to the service and the
timely communication of the progress of the management to the
customer through the channel of their choice
The 2023 financial year has been a major challenge for Customer Services, as the complex and uncertain environment caused by the increating prososs and mo boo of hossencial ingoloman manologian and roadone and ed
increase in complaints and claims, last year, the comments on and tavour of the customer.
In terms of resolution times, Línea Directa continues to maintain fast response times, with an average resolution time of 16.56 days in 2023.
If the insured is not satisfied with the decision of the Customer Service department, there are several options for arguing and making a successful claim. Línea Directa has a Customer Ombudsman, who promotes transparency and the protection of the interests of the insured and the application of best practices, with resolutions that are binding on the company.
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| CHANGES IN COMPLAINTS AND CLAIMS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEAR | COMPLAINTS | CLAIMS | TOTAL | ||
| 2023 | 630 | 7,007 | |||
| 8.25% | 91.75% | 7,637 | |||
| 2022 | 398 | 5,411 | 5,809 | ||
| 6.85% | 93.15% | ||||
| YEAR | APPLY | DO NOT APPLY | TOTAL | ||
| 3,044 | 4,593 | ||||
| 2023 | 39.86% | 60 14% | 7,637 | ||
| 2,215 | 3,594 | ||||
| 2022 | 38.13% | 61.87% | 5,809 |
* Data extracted as at 01.01.2024 on claims closed in 2023 regardless of their submission date.
| DISTRIBUTION BY THE DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT AREAS 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARFA | PERCENTAGE | COMPLAINTS AND CLAIMS |
|||
| Accident management | 66.39% | 5,070 | |||
| Policy management | 19.22% | 1 .468 | |||
| Quote and close | 1.79% | 137 | |||
| Additional services | 8.73% | 667 | |||
| Roadside assistance | 3.34% | રેરિક | |||
| Other | 0.52% | 40 |
The direct business model provides a number of competitive advantages over the traditional business model: greater ability to adapt, savings on commissions and branch networks, and difect
contact with the customer. The latter allows linea Directa to gain first-hand knowledge of the needs of its policyholders, which is an
extraordinary asset when it comes to promoting quality in all its processes.
Línea Directa Aseguradora monitors its net promoter score (NPS),
which estimates the degree to which its customers and users would recommend the company to others. This system has a measurement scale of 1 to 10 points, and only those pólicyholders who rate their
experience with the company with a score of 9 or 10 are considered "promoters".
Línea Directa Aseguradora's global NPS in 2023 reached 29.16 points, a variation of 17.8 points compared to 2022, a decline
caused by the tightening of underwriting in the face of the current market sifuation of inflationary pressures on costs and insurance margins.
One of the main challenges experienced by the Quality area during the past year has been to adapt the measurement systems to the company's new multi-segment approach. It has been possible to define a set of indicators that, in addition to providing a joint reading of the KPIs, offers the possibility of knowing how a policyholder evaluates the process or service in question.
The year_2023 has also seen important developments in the Customer Experience Scorecard applied to home insurance benefits and has deepened the knowledge and analysis of the best practices in the market, always with the aim of enriching decision-making in the future.
In 2024, work will be done to extend the methodology on service provision evaluation to the rest of customer interactions, as well as to the prediction and early detection of alarms on the new perception indicators.
| Jurisdiction | Altonso Botín- Sanz de Sautuola y Naveda |
Patricia Ayuela de Rueda |
John de Zulueta Greenebau m |
Ana María Plaza Arregui |
Rita Estevez Luaña |
Elena Otero- Novas Miranda |
Fernando Masaveu Herrero |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance, banking and stock exchange |
1.1 Insurance | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | ||
| Regulated sectors |
1 .2 Banking | × | × | x | × | |||||
| 1.3 Stock exchange | × | × | × | × | × | × | ||||
| Finance and accounting Audit and risk management |
2.1 Finance and accounting | × | × | × | × | × | × | |||
| Financial and risks |
2.2 Audit and risk management |
× | × | × | × | × | × | |||
| 2.3 Regulatory compliance | × | × | × | × | × | × | ||||
| Digitalisation Intormation and |
3.1 Digitalisation and ICT | × | × | × | × | × | × | |||
| 3 | Digital transformation |
communication technologies (ICT) Cybersecurity |
3.2 Cybersecurity | × | × | × | × | |||
| 3.3 Data protection | × | × | × | × | × | |||||
| 4. 1 Gender | Spanish male | Spanish | American male | Spanish | Spanish | Spanish | Spanish male | |||
| 4 | Diversity | Diversity of gender, nationality and age |
4.2 Nationality | Between 50 | female | >60 | temale | female | temale | Between 50 |
| 4.3 Age (<50) (51-60) (>60) | and 60 | <50 | Between 50 and 60 |
Between 50 and ୧୦ |
Between 50 and 60 |
and 60 | ||||
| Experience and training in ESG |
5.1 Environmental issues | × | x | × | × | × | ||||
| 5 | ESG | 5.2 Social issues | × | × | × | × | × | × | ||
| matters | 5.3 Governance issues | × | × | × | × | × | × | |||
| 6 | Customers | Comercial and marketing Quality Consumers |
6.1 Comercial and marketing | × | × | × | × | × | ||
| 6.2 Quality and consumers | × | × | × | × | ||||||
| 7 | Strategy | Strategy Business development |
7. Strategy and business development |
× | x | × | × | × | × | × |
| 8 | International | International experience |
8. International experience | × | × | × | × | × | × | × |
| 9 | Boards | Experience on other boards |
9. Experience on other boards | × | × | × | × | × | × | × |
| 10 | People | People management l alent and remuneration |
10. People management. Talent and remuneration |
× | × | × | × | × | × | × |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWER CONSUMPTION | |||
| Diesel (I) | 8,319.70 | 11,547.00 | 12,028.93 |
| Diesel (MWh) | 81.5 | 111.77 | 120.05 |
| Natural gas (MWh) | 3,143.34 | 2,414.50 | 2,370.53 |
| Electricity (MWh) | 5,209.90 | 5,223.10 | 4,916.57 |
| Self-generated electricity (MWh) | 318.4 | 688.5 | |
| % electricity trom renewable sources | 96 | 69.10% | 72.2% |
| Electricity from renewable sources (MWh) | 0 | 3,611.47 | 3,548.18 |
| Electricity trom non-renewable sources (MWh) | 5,209.92 | 1,611.64 | 1,368.39 |
| Total energy (MWh) | 8,434.74 | 7,749.37 | 7,407.15 |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| CARBON FOOTRPINT | |||
| SCOPE 1 | |||
| Scope 1 : direct CO2 emissions (tonCO2e) | 602.3 | 471.0 | 464.7 |
| SCOPE 2 | |||
| Scope 2 (market-based) indirect CO2 emissions from electricity consumed (tonCO2e) | 1,178.3 | 426.2 | 346.7 |
| Scope 2 (location-based) indirect CO2 emissions from electricity consumed (tonCO2e)* | 1,178.3 | 1,239.9 | 1,084.15 |
| Scope 3 CO2 emissions from water | 4.58 | 24 | 2.7 |
| Scope 3 CO2 emissions from paper ** | 16.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Scope 3 CO2 emissions from business trips | / | 22.01 | 19.82 |
| Scope 3 CO2 emissions from employee commutes | 2,296.4 | 2,653.4 | 2,451.2 |
| Scope 1 intensity (tonCO2e/average staff) | 0.230 | 0.190 | 0.185 |
| Scope 2 intensity (tonCO2e/average staff) | 0.460 | 0.150 | 0.138 |
| Intensity (Scope 1 + Scope 2) | 0.690 | 0.340 | 0.324 |
* From 2022, the calculation methodology for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions has changed.
* From 2022, he calculation nethodology for Sope 1 and be enissions from poper, has changed. Scope 2 emisions ore amerikation.
** Sources: MITECO. Emision foctors, carbon forting and carbon dioxide ebsorpion projects (Version 23 – Junio 2023) and DEFRA Verion 1. 1 2023
*** The conpory's direct onl indies enisions (Scopes 1 and 2) will be subjection is canpled, he dot will be updated in the Nor-Friorial hfornation
Steinent.
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATER CONSUMPTION | |||
| Drinking water (ml) | 14.32 | 16.12 | 15.27 |
| WASTE MANAGEMENT | |||
| Total waste (Kg) | 107,822 | 112,042 | 113,967 |
| Hazardous waste (Kg) | 35,715 | 40,435 | 40,059 |
| Non-hazardous waste (Kg) | 72,106 | 71,608 | 73,908 |
| Paper and cardboard (Kg) | 14,839 | 17,898 | 21,915 |
| Plastic (Kg) | 16,976 | 14,010 | 18,777 |
| Other non-hazardous waste (Kg) | 40,291 | 39,700 | 33,216 |
| WASTE RECOVERY | |||
| Recycled/reused waste (Kg) | 97,332 | 81,156 | 82,844 |
| Discarded waste (Kg) | 0 | 0 | 10,499 |
| Waste sent to landtill (Kg) | 0 | 0 | O |
| Incinerated waste (with or without recovery) (Kg) | 0 | 20,202 | 19,044 |
| Waste otherwise disposed of; specify (Kg) | 0 | 0 | 1,277 |
| Waste with unknown disposal method (Kg) | 10,490 | 10,684 | 303 |
| SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATION | |||
| Occupants in environmentally certified centres (%) | 76% | 76% | 86% |
| CONSUMPTION OF MATERIALS | |||
| Paper consumption (Kg) | 11,712 | 9,705 | 9,158 |
| Toner consumption (Kg) | 30.8 | 23.4 | 28.4 |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | ||
| Total staff | 1,096 | 1,480 | 2,576 | 1,068 | 1,432 | 2,500 | 1,046 | 1,459 | 2,505 | |
| Distribution of staff by seniority and gender | ||||||||||
| <=5 | 557 | રેવેવે | 1,156 | 510 | 542 | 1,052 | 480 | રુર । | 1,031 | |
| 6-15 | 325 | 452 | /// | 293 | 380 | 673 | 285 | 365 | 650 | |
| 16-25 | 207 | 4 7 | 624 | 256 | 471 | 727 | 265 | 493 | 758 | |
| >25 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 39 | 48 | 16 | 50 | 66 | |
| Distribution of staff by age and gender | ||||||||||
| <30 | 104 | 131 | 235 | 102 | 129 | 231 | 139 | 170 | 309 | |
| >=30 and <50 | 826 | 1,054 | 1,880 | 771 | 968 | 1,739 | 699 | 924 | 1,623 | |
| >=50 | 166 | 295 | 461 | 195 | 335 | 530 | 208 | 365 | 573 | |
| Distribution of staff by professional group and gender | ||||||||||
| Directors | 35 | 35 | 70 | 37 | 37 | 74 | 35 | 37 | 72 | |
| Expert professionals |
189 | 176 | 365 | 187 | 169 | 356 | 185 | 163 | 348 | |
| Professionals | 283 | 422 | 705 | 264 | 412 | 676 | 261 | 397 | 658 | |
| Staff | 589 | 847 | 1,436 | 580 | 814 | 1,394 | 565 | 862 | 1,427 | |
| Distribution of staff by type of contract and gender | ||||||||||
| Permanent | 1,050 | 1,444 | 2,494 | 1,050 | 1,417 | 2,467 | 1,037 | ,458 | 2,495 | |
| Temporary | 46 | 36 | 82 | 18 | ો ર | 33 | 9 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 10 | |
| Distribution of staff by type of working day and gender | ||||||||||
| Full-time | 709 | 631 | 1,340 | 720 | 664 | 1,384 | 679 | 6/4 | 1,353 | |
| Part-time | 387 | 849 | 1,236 | 348 | 768 | 1,116 | 367 | 785 | 1,152 |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of nationalities in relation to total staff (%) | |||
| Spain | 95.4% | 95.7% | 93.8% |
| Venezuela | 1.3% | 1.5% | 1.9% |
| Peru | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.8% |
| Colombia | 0.5% | ||
| Other nationalities * | 2.7% | 2.4% | 3.1% |
| Total number of nationalities | 28 | 24 | 33 |
*with a weight of less than 0.5% over the total
| Indicator | 2092 | 20992 | 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FULL-TIME | PART-TIME | TOTAL | FULL-TIME | PART-TIME | TOTAL | FULL-TIME | PART- TIME |
TOTAL | ||
| Total statt | 1,340 | 1,236 | 2,576 | 1,384 | 1,116 | 2,500 | 1,353 | 1,152 | 2,505 | |
| Distribution of staff by seniority and type of working day | ||||||||||
| <=5 | 362 | 794 | 1,156 | 392 | 660 | 1,052 | 349 | 682 | 1,031 | |
| 6-15 | 469 | 308 | 77 | 382 | 291 | 673 | 352 | 298 | 650 | |
| 16-25 | 49 | 133 | 624 | 568 | । રેત | 727 | રેત્વે | 167 | 758 | |
| >25 | 18 | 19 | 42 | 6 | 48 | 61 | 5 | 66 | ||
| Distribution of statt by age and type of working day | ||||||||||
| <30 | 59 | 176 | 235 | 73 | 158 | 231 | 78 | 231 | 309 | |
| >=30 and <50 | 972 | 908 | 1,880 | 956 | 783 | 1,739 | 865 | 758 | 1,623 | |
| >=50 | 309 | 152 | 461 | 355 | 175 | 530 | 410 | 163 | 573 | |
| Distribution of staff by professional group and type of working day | ||||||||||
| Directors | 70 | 0 | 70 | 74 | 0 | /4 | 72 | 0 | 72 | |
| Expert professionals |
333 | 32 | 365 | 326 | 30 | 356 | 325 | 23 | 348 | |
| Professionals | રવેવ | 106 | 705 | 566 | 110 | 676 | રું | 97 | 658 | |
| Staff | 338 | 1,098 | 1,436 | 418 | 976 | 1,394 | 395 | 1,032 | 1,427 | |
| Distribution of statt by type of contract and type of working day | ||||||||||
| Permanent | 1,320 | 1,174 | 2,494 | 1,371 | 1,096 | 2,467 | 1,344 | 1,151 | 2,495 | |
| lemporary | 20 | 62 | 82 | 13 | 20 | 33 | の | 10 |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PERMANENT | TEMPORARY | TOTAL | PERMANENT | TEMPORARY | TOTAL | PERMANENT | TEMPORARY | TOTAL | |||
| Total staff | 2,494 | 82 | 2,576 | 2,467 | 33 | 2,500 | 2,495 | 10 | 2,505 | ||
| Distribution of staff by seniority and type of contract | |||||||||||
| <=5 | 1,074 | 82 | 1,156 | 1,019 | 33 | 1,052 | 1,021 | 10 | 1,031 | ||
| 6-15 | 777 | 0 | /// | 673 | 0 | 673 | 650 | O | 650 | ||
| 16-25 | 624 | 0 | 624 | 727 | 0 | 727 | 758 | 0 | 758 | ||
| >25 | 19 | 0 | 19 | 48 | 0 | 48 | 66 | O | 66 | ||
| Distribution of staff by age and type of contract | |||||||||||
| <30 | 213 | 22 | 235 | 214 | 17 | 231 | 309 | O | 309 | ||
| >=30 and <50 | 1,830 | 50 | 1,880 | 1,724 | 15 | 1,739 | 1,614 | 9 | 1,623 | ||
| >=50 | 451 | 10 | 461 | 529 | 530 | 572 | 573 | ||||
| Distribution of staff by professional group and type of contract | |||||||||||
| Directors | 70 | 0 | 70 | 74 | 0 | /4 | 72 | O | 72 | ||
| Expert professionals |
365 | 0 | 365 | 356 | 0 | 356 | 348 | O | 348 | ||
| Professionals | 701 | ਪ | 705 | 675 | 676 | 658 | O | 658 | |||
| Staff | 1,358 | 78 | 1,436 | 1,362 | 32 | 1,394 | 1,4 / | 10 | 1,427 |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |||
| Average headcount |
1,098.0 | 1,481.3 | 2,579.3 | 1,078.2 | 1,459.9 | 2,538.1 | 1,052.9 | 1,435.4 | 2,488.3 | ||
| Distribution of average staff by seniority and gender | |||||||||||
| <=5 | 565.8 | 619.1 | 1184.9 | 532.7 | 577.5 | 1,110.2 | 497.8 | 541.8 | 1,039.7 | ||
| 6-15 | 345.0 | 486.3 | 831.3 | 300.1 | 400.3 | /00.3 | 282.8 | 366.0 | 648.8 | ||
| 16-25 | 181.0 | 368.7 | 549.7 | 237.9 | 451.0 | 688.9 | 258.7 | 481.3 | 739.9 | ||
| >25 | 6.2 | 7.3 | 13.5 | 7.5 | 31.2 | 38.7 | 13.6 | 46.3 | 59.9 | ||
| Distribution of average staff by age and gender | |||||||||||
| <30 | 109.6 | 143.1 | 252.7 | 99.0 | 131.4 | 230.4 | 121.9 | 145.0 | 266.9 | ||
| >=30 and <50 | 841.3 | 1,058.3 | 1,899.5 | 794.8 | 1,006.4 | 1,801.2 | 730.4 | 940.0 | 1,670.4 | ||
| >=50 | 147.2 | 280 | 427.2 | 184.4 | 322.1 | 506.5 | 200.6 | 350.4 | 551.0 | ||
| Distribution of average staff by professional group and gender | |||||||||||
| Directors | 34.9 | 35.0 | 69.9 | 35.3 | 36.2 | 71.4 | 34.6 | 37.6 | 72.2 | ||
| Expert professionals |
184.4 | 175.8 | 360.2 | 189.9 | 171.3 | 361.3 | 187.7 | 167.1 | 354.8 | ||
| Professionals | 278.3 | 419.4 | 697.7 | 274.8 | 419.7 | 694.5 | 260.7 | 400.4 | 661.1 | ||
| Staff | 600.4 | 851.2 | 1,451.6 | 578.2 | 832.8 | 1,410.9 | 570.0 | 830.3 | 1,400.3 | ||
| Distribution of average staff by type of contract and gender | |||||||||||
| Permanent | 1,039.6 | 1,417.2 | 2,456.8 | 1,046.1 | 1,421.3 | 2,467.3 | 1,042.7 | 1,432.4 | 2,475.1 | ||
| lemporary | 58.4 | 64.2 | 122.6 | 32.1 | 38.7 | 70.8 | 10.3 | 3.0 | 13.3 | ||
| Distribution of average staff by type of working day and gender | |||||||||||
| Full-time | 703.6 | 626.5 | 1,330.1 | 688.8 | 640.0 | 1,328.8 | 713.4 | 667.3 | 1,380.8 | ||
| Partime | 394.4 | 854.8 | 1,249.3 | 389.4 | 819.9 | 1,209.3 | 339.5 | 768.1 | 1,107.6 |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FULL-TIME | PART- TIME |
TOTAL | FULL-TIME | PART- TIME |
TOTAL | FULL-TIME | PART- TIME |
TOTAL | ||
| Average headcount |
1,330.1 | 1,249.3 | 2,579.3 | 1,328.8 | 1,209.4 | 2,538.1 | 1,380.8 | 1,107.6 | 2,488.3 | |
| Distribution of average staff by seniority and type of working day | ||||||||||
| <=5 | 367.9 | 817.0 | 1,184.9 | 349.1 | 761.1 | 1,110.2 | 395.3 | 644.3 | 1,039.6 | |
| 6-15 | 512.0 | 319.3 | 831.3 | 405.1 | 295.3 | /00.3 | 355.2 | 293.1 | 648.8 | |
| 16-25 | 436.8 | 1129 | 549.7 | 540.9 | 148.0 | 688.9 | 576.1 | 163.8 | 739.9 | |
| >25 | 13.4 | 0.1 | 13.5 | 33.7 | 5.0 | 38.7 | 54.2 | 5.8 | 59.9 | |
| Distribution of average staff by age and type of working day | ||||||||||
| <30 | 56.3 | 196.3 | 252.7 | 57.8 | 172.6 | 230.4 | 899 | 177.0 | 266.9 | |
| >=30 and < 50 | 990.6 | 408.9 | 1,899.5 | 936.3 | 864.9 | 1,801 .2 | 907.8 | 762.6 | 1,670.4 | |
| >=50 | 283.2 | 144 | 427.2 | 334.7 | 171.8 | 506.5 | 383.0 | 168.0 | 551.0 | |
| Distribution of average staff by professional group and type of working day | ||||||||||
| Directors | 69.9 | 0.0 | 69.9 | 7 4 | 0.0 | 7 .4 | 72.2 | 0.0 | 72.2 | |
| Expert professionals |
327.8 | 32.4 | 360.2 | 331 . 1 | 30.2 | 361.3 | 328.0 | 26.8 | 354.8 | |
| Professionals | 591 - 5 | 106.2 | 697.7 | 585.7 | 108.8 | 694.5 | 558.3 | 102.8 | 661.1 | |
| Staff | 340.9 | 1,110.7 | 1,451.6 | 340.6 | 1,070.3 | 1,410.9 | 422.3 | 978.0 | 1,400.3 | |
| Distribution of average staff by type of contract and type of working day | ||||||||||
| Permanent | 1,312.3 | 1, 44.4 | 2,456.8 | 1,312.0 | 1,155.3 | 2,467.3 | 1,370.7 | 1,104.4 | 2,475.1 | |
| lemporary | 17.8 | 104.8 | 122.6 | 16.8 | 54.0 | 70.8 | 10 1 | 3.2 | 13.3 |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PERMANENT | TEMPORARY | TOTAL | PERMANENT | TEMPORARY | TOTAL | PERMANENT | TEMPORARY | TOTAL | ||
| Average headcount |
2,456.8 | 122.6 | 2,579.3 | 2,467.3 | 70.8 | 2,538.1 | 2,475.1 | 13.3 | 2,488.3 | |
| Distribution of staff by seniority and type of contract | ||||||||||
| <=5 | 1,062.3 | 122.6 | 1,184.9 | 1,039.4 | 70.8 | 1,110.2 | 1,026.4 | 13.3 | 1,039.7 | |
| 6-15 | 831.3 | 0.0 | 831.3 | 700.3 | 0.0 | 700.3 | 648.8 | 0.0 | 648.8 | |
| 16-25 | 549.7 | 0.0 | 549.7 | 688.9 | 0.0 | 688.9 | 739.9 | 0.0 | 739.9 | |
| >25 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 13.5 | 38.7 | 0.0 | 38.7 | 59.9 | 0.0 | 59.9 | |
| Distribution of staff by age and type of contract | ||||||||||
| <30 | 211.2 | 41.5 | 252.7 | 204.5 | 25.9 | 230.4 | 265.3 | 1.7 | 266.9 | |
| >=30 and <50 | ,825.5 | 74.0 | 1,900 | 1,/64.2 | 37.0 | 1,801.2 | 1,659.8 | 10.6 | 1,670.4 | |
| >=50 | 420.1 | 7.1 | 427.2 | 498.7 | 7.8 | 506.5 | 550.0 | 1 .0 | 551.0 | |
| Distribution of staff by professional group and type of contract | ||||||||||
| Directors | 69.9 | 0.0 | 69.9 | 71.4 | 0.0 | / 4 | 72.2 | 0.0 | 72.2 | |
| Expert professionals |
360 | 0.2 | 360.2 | 361.3 | 0.0 | 361.3 | 354.8 | 0.0 | 354.8 | |
| Professionals | 695.4 | 2.3 | 697.7 | 693.1 | 1.4 | 694.5 | 661.1 | 0.0 | 661.1 | |
| Staff | ,331.4 | 1 20.2 | 1,452 | 1,341.6 | 69.3 | 1,410.9 | 1,387.1 | 13.3 | 1,400.3 |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCO UNT |
HIRING RATE | HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCO UNT |
HIRING RATE | HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCO UNT |
HIRING RATE | ||
| Total staff | 298 | 2,576 | 11.57% | 279 | 2,500 | 11.2% | 419 | 2,505 | 16.73% | |
| Hires in the Group by gender |
||||||||||
| Male | 140 | 1,096 | 12.8% | 129 | 1,068 | 12.1% | 204 | 1,046 | 19.5% | |
| New hire | 133 | 12.14% | 121 | 11.33% | 196 | 18.74% | ||||
| Rehire | 7 | 0.64% | 8 | 0.75% | 8 | 0.76% | ||||
| Female | 158 | 1,480 | 10.7% | 150 | 1,432 | 10.5% | 215 | 1,459 | 14.7% | |
| New hire | 139 | 9.39% | 136 | 9.50% | 204 | 13.98% | ||||
| Rehire | 19 | 1.28% | 4 | 0.98% | 11 | 0.75% | ||||
| Hires in the Group by age | ||||||||||
| <30 | 109 | 235 | 46.4% | 119 | 231 | 5 .5% | 223 | 309 | 72.2% | |
| New hire | 105 | 44.68% | 116 | 50.22% | 218 | 70.55% | ||||
| Rehire | য | 1.70% | 3 | 1.30% | 5 | 1.62% | ||||
| >=30 and <50 | 171 | 1,880 | 9.1% | 138 | 1,739 | 7.9% | 196 | 1,623 | 12.1% | |
| New hire | 152 | 8.09% | 122 | 7.02% | 182 | 11.21% | ||||
| Rehire | 19 | 1.01% | 16 | 0.92% | 14 | 0.86% | ||||
| >=50 | 18 | 461 | 3.9% | 22 | 230 | 4.2% | 0 | 573 | % - |
|
| New hire | । ર | 3.25% | 19 | 3.58% | నాల - |
|||||
| Rehire | 3 | 0.65% | 3 | 0.57% | 96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 2092 | 2092 | 2093 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCO UNT |
HIRING RATE | HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCO UNT |
HIRING RATE | HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCO UNT |
HIRING RATE | |
| Total staff | 298 | 2,576 | 11.6% | 279 | 2,500 | 11.2% | 419 | 2,505 | 16.7% |
| Hires in the Group by professional group |
|||||||||
| Directors | 70 | 1.4% | 4 | /4 | 5.4% | 2 | 72 | 2.8% | |
| New hire | 1.4% | 4 | 5.4 % | 2 | 2.8% | ||||
| Rehire | 0 | -96 | 0 | - % | 0 | -96 | |||
| Expert professionals |
29 | 365 | 7.9% | 9 | 356 | 2.5 % | 23 | 348 | 6.6% |
| New hire | 28 | 7.7 % | 7 | 2.0 % | 23 | 6,6% | 28 | ||
| Rehire | 1 | 0.3 % | 2 | 0.6 % | 0 | -96 | |||
| Professionals | 39 | 705 | 5.5% | 18 | 6/6 | 2.7% | 18 | 658 | 2.7% |
| New hire | 32 | 4.5% | 1 O | 1.5 % | । ર | 2.3% | |||
| Rehire | 7 | 1.0 % | 8 | 1.2% | 3 | 0,5% | |||
| Staff | 229 | 1,436 | 15.9% | 248 | 1,394 | 17.8% | 376 | 1,394 | 26.3% |
| New hire | 211 | 14.7% | 236 | 16.9% | 360 | 25.2% | |||
| Rehire | 18 | 1.3 % | 12 | 0.9% | 16 | 1.1 % |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |||
| Overall total | 133 | 139 | 272 | 121 | 136 | 257 | 196 | 204 | 400 | ||
| Type of contract in new hire | |||||||||||
| Permanent | 49 | 20 | 69 | 73 | 44 | 117 | 193 | 203 | 396 | ||
| lemporary | 84 | 119 | 203 | 48 | 92 | 1 40 | ന | য | |||
| New hires by type of working day | |||||||||||
| Full-time | ર્ર ર | 18 | 73 | 49 | 12 | 61 | 157 | 134 | 291 | ||
| Partime | 78 | 121 | 199 | 72 | 124 | 196 | 39 | 70 | 109 |
| 2021 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
HIRING RATE | |||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Overall total | 133 | 139 | 272 | 1,096 | 1,480 | 2,576 | 12.1% | 9.4% | 10.6% |
| New hires by professional group | |||||||||
| Directors | 1 | 1 | 35 | 35 | 70 | 2.9% | - % | 1.4% | |
| Expert professionals |
19 | 9 | 28 | 189 | 176 | 365 | 10.1% | 5.1% | 7.7% |
| Professionals | 25 | 7 | 32 | 283 | 422 | 705 | 8.8% | 1.7% | 4.5% |
| Staff | 88 | 123 | 211 | 289 | 847 | 1,436 | 14.9% | 14.5% | 14.7% |
| 2022 | |||||||||
| HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
HIRING RATE | |||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Overall total | 121 | 136 | 257 | 1,068 | 1,432 | 2,500 | 11.3% | 9.5% | 10.6% |
| New hires by professional group | |||||||||
| Directors | 2 | 2 | 4 | 37 | 37 | 74 | 5,4% | 5,4% | 5,4% |
| Expert professionals |
7 | 0 | 7 | 187 | 169 | 356 | 3,7% | - % | 2,0 % |
| Professionals | 5 | 5 | 10 | 264 | 412 | 676 | 1,9 % | 1,2 % | 1,5 % |
| Staff | 107 | 129 | 236 | 580 | 814 | 1.394 | 18,4 % | 15,8 % | 16,9% |
| 2023 | |||||||||
| HIRES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
HIRING RATE | |||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Overall total | 196 | 204 | 400 | 1.046 | 1.459 | 2.505 | 18,7 % | 14,0 % | 16,0 % |
| New hires by professional group | |||||||||
| Directors | 2 | O | 2 | 35 | 37 | 72 | 5,7% | ಲೇ - |
2,8 % |
| Expert nrotessionals |
17 | 0 | 23 | 185 | 163 | 348 | 9,2% | 3,7 % | 6,6% |
22,9 % Línea Directa Aseguradora and subsidiaries
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2,3 %
25,2 %
Consolidated Management Report (in thousand euro)
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| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EVALUATED | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
% | EVALUATED | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
% | EVALUATED | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNI |
% | ||||
| Total staff | 2,544 | 2,576 | 98.8% | 2,451 | 2,500 | 98.0% | 2,446 | 2,505 | 97.6% | |||
| Employees who have participated in the performance assessment by gender | ||||||||||||
| Male | 1,075 | 1096 | 98.1% | 1,408 | 1,432 | 98.3% | 1,016 | 1,046 | 97.1% | |||
| Female | 1,469 | 1,480 | 99.3% | 1,043 | 1,068 | 97.7% | 1,430 | 1,459 | 98.0% | |||
| Employees who have participated in the performance assessment by age | ||||||||||||
| <30 | 228 | 235 | 97.0% | 227 | 231 | 98.3% | 293 | 309 | 94.8% | |||
| >=30 and <50 | 1,869 | 1,880 | 99.4% | 1,711 | 1,739 | 98.4% | 1,593 | 1,623 | 98.2% | |||
| >=50 | 447 | 461 | 97.0% | 513 | 530 | 96.8% | 560 | 573 | 97.7% | |||
| Employees who have participated in the performance assessment by professional | ||||||||||||
| group | ||||||||||||
| Directors | રેરે | 70 | 78.6% | રેજે | 74 | 79.7% | 52 | 72 | 72.2% | |||
| Expert professionals |
362 | 365 | 99.2% | 348 | 356 | 97.8% | 344 | 348 | 98.9% | |||
| Professionals | 697 | 705 | 98.9% | 666 | 676 | 98.5% | 655 | 658 | 99.5% | |||
| Staff | 1,430 | 1,436 | 99.6% | 1,378 | 1,394 | 98.9% | 1,395 | 1,427 | 97.8% |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2093 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal selection processes | ||||
| No. of internal selection processes | ব | 79 | 81 * | |
| No. of people who change positions | 41 | 71 | 90 | |
| No. of candidates | 5/9 | 530 | 636 | |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||
| Individual external selection processes | ||||
| No. of selection processes | 61 | 21 | 42 | |
| Candidates | 5.845 | 3.500 | 5.463 |
*In 2023, the number of people promoted is higher than the number of promotion processes because in some of these processes several
people have been promoted at the same time
| Indicator | INTERNAL CHANGES IN POSITION | 2023 PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
MOVEMENT RATE | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | ||
| Overall total | 42 | 48 | 90 | 1.046 | 1.459 | 2.505 | 4,0 % | 3,3% | 3,6 % | |
| Internal selection processes | ||||||||||
| Directors | വ | 35 | 37 | 721 | 2.9% | 2.7% | 2.8% | |||
| Expert professionals |
। | 0 | 24 | । 85 | 163 | 348 | 8.1% | 5.5% | 6.9% | |
| Professionals | 18 | 19 | 37 | 261 | 397 | 658 | 6.9% | 4.8% | 5.6% | |
| Staff | 8 | 19 | 27 | 565 | 862 | 1,427 | 1.4% | 2.2% | 1.9% |
| Indicator | INTERNAL CHANGES IN POSITION | 2023 NEW HIRES |
INTERNAL VS EXTERNAL POSITION COVERAGE RATE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Overall total | 42 | 48 | 90 | 136 | 131 | 267 | 24% | 27% | 25% |
| Internal selection processes | |||||||||
| Directors | വ | O | 50% | 100% | 67% | ||||
| Expert professionals |
। 5 | の | 24 | 20 | 6 | 26 | 43% | 60% | 48% |
| Professionals | 18 | 19 | 37 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 58% | 90% | 71% |
| Staff | 8 | 19 | 27 | 102 | 123 | 225 | 7% | 13% | 11% |
* Includes additions to staff whose vacancies are not opened internally
| Indicator | INTERNAL CHANGES IN POSITION | 2023 VACANCIES FILLED INTERNALLY |
% VACANCIES FILLED INTERNALLY OVER INTERNALLY OPEN POSITIONS |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Overall total | 42 | 48 | 90 | 34 | 90 | 42 | 55% | 86% | 68% |
| Internal selection processes | |||||||||
| Directors | 2 | O | 50% | 100% | 67% | ||||
| Expert professionals |
। | 0 | 24 | 20 | 0 | 26 | 43% | 60% | 48% |
| Professionals | 18 | 19 | 37 | 13 | 2 | ] ર | 58% | 90% | 71% |
| Staff | 8 | 19 | 27 | O | O | O | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Employees entitled to parental leave during the year (children born during the year) |
34 | 44 | 78 | 43 | 39 | 82 | 33 | 46 | 79 |
| Employees who have taken parental leave auring the year (includes those who began their leave the year betore) |
40 | 61 | 101 | 62 | 4 | 103 | 57 | 54 | |
| % ot statt returning to work atter leave 96.9% | 89.6% | 92.5% | 98.9% | 97.6% | 98.2% | 96.0% | 82.4% | 90.5% | |
| % of statt returning to work after leave | 87.8% | 76.7% | 83.5% | 97.7% | 95.9% | 96.8% | 91.0% | 78.0% | 84.0% |
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. OF DAYS OF LEAVE |
No. OF HOURS OF LEAVE |
No. OF DAYS OF LEAVE |
No. OF HOURS OF LEAVE |
No. OF DAYS OF LEAVE |
No. OF HOURS OF LEAVE |
||
| Maternity | 3,868 | 23,259 | 3,537 | 20,439 | 3.401 | 19,548 | |
| Male | 73 | 501 | |||||
| remale | 3,795 | 22,758 | 3.537 | 20.439 | 3.401 | 19,548 | |
| Paternity | 2,217 | 13,711 | 3,526 | 21,684 | 2,762 | 16,959 | |
| Male | 2.217 | 13,711 | 3,446 | 21,163 | 2,722 | 16,698 | |
| Female | 80 | 521 | 40 | 261 | |||
| otal | 6,085 | 36,970 | 7.063 | 42.123 | 6,163 | 36,507 |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | ||
| Average remuneration by age | ||||||||||
| Overall total | 39,933 | 35,292 | 37,268 | 40,902 | 36,667 | 38,468 | 41,619 | 37,921 | 34,488 | |
| Average remuneration by age | ||||||||||
| <30 | 26,855 | 26,517 | 26,663 | 28,520 | 27,418 | 27,895 | 28,522 | 26,014 | 27,160 | |
| >=30 and < 50 | 37,539 | 34,628 | 35,917 | 39,127 | 35,636 | 37,176 | 40,766 | 36,946 | 38,618 | |
| >=50 | 62,786 | 42,184 | 49,337 | 54,870 | 43,529 | 47,686 | 52,368 | 45,327 | 47,910 | |
| Average remuneration by professional group | ||||||||||
| Directors* (tixed salary) | 123,694 | 97,650 | 110,656 | 112,253 | 103,553 | 107,847 | 113,976 | 105,110 | 109,358 | |
| Directors | 168,139 | 114,905 | 141,490 | 156,337 | 128,877 | 142,431 | 145,402 | 14,443 | 143,340 | |
| Expert professionals * (fixed salary) | 52,168 | 50,255 | 51,235 | 53,207 | 51,520 | 52,407 | 54,526 | 53,67 | 54,123 | |
| Expert professionals | 57,833 | 55,712 | 56,798 | 59,064 | 57,345 | 58,249 | 60,914 | 60,040 | 60,501 | |
| Professionals + staff * (fixed salary) |
24,945 | 24, 149 | 24,4/5 | 25,582 | 24,636 | 25,020 | 25,993 | 24,907 | 25,346 | |
| Professionals | 39,574 | 36,785 | 37,895 | 40,155 | 37,543 | 38,575 | 41,572 | 38,296 | 39,586 | |
| Staff | 27,138 | 27,041 | 27,081 | 28,224 | 27,912 | 28,040 | 29,017 | 28,518 | 28,122 | |
| Median employee remuneration | ||||||||||
| Total | 31,474 | 30,037 | 30,651 | 33,564 | 31,562 | 32,258 | 34,753 | 32,520 | 33,305 |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | ||
| Average remuneration | ||||||||||
| Senior management | 319,971 | 228,244 | 289,396 | 356,889 | 238,785 | 311,144 | 298,657 | 289,129 | 294,537 | |
| Average annual remuneration | ||||||||||
| Non-executive director | 61,782.7 | 68,333.7 | 63,966.3 | 91,125.0 | 91,562.0 | 91,344.0 | 106,333.3 | 89,437.5 | 96,678.6 | |
| Executive director | 428, 190.5 | 428, 190.5 | 54, 11/.6 | 361,846.3 | 415,963.9 | 504,336.0 | 504,336.0 | |||
| Average | 204,512.8 | 68,333.7 | 159,119.8 | 102,602.2 | 148,087.2 | 127,412.7 | 106,333.3 | 172,417.2 | 147,635.8 |
* The for enumeration of the excutive director in 2022 coresponds bore morth's remerce of the former CCO, Migel Merin, and 11 months of the current CC, Patrica Ayeb.
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2093 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employees assigned to collective bargaining agreements | |||||||
| Collective bargaining agreements | 10 | 5* | 4 * | ||||
| International secondment letter | |||||||
| Persons assigned to agreement | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | ||||
| * At yearend 2022: 10 collective agreements active during the period | |||||||
| *At yearend 2023: 6 collective agreements active during the period | |||||||
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employees covered by collective bargaining agreement |
100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2072 | 2073 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disabled employees | |||||||
| Average for year | 40.0 | 39.0 | 38.6 | ||||
| Average Group employees | 2,579.3 | 2,538.1 | 2,488.3 | ||||
| Average disabled employees | 1.55% | 1.54% | 1.55% |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disabled employees | |||||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Average disabled employees | 18.2 | 21.7 | 40.0 | 19.0 | 20.0 | 39.0 | 20.6 | 18.0 | 38.6 |
| Average headcount | 1.098.0 | 1,481.3 2,579.3 | 1,078.2 | 1.459.9 | 2,538.1 | 1,052.9 | 1,435.4 | 2,488.3 | |
| Percentage employees | 1.66% | 1.47% | 1.55% | 1.76% | 1.37% | 1.54% | 1.95% | 1.26% | 1.55% |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEADCOUNT | WEIGHTED GAP | HEADCOUNT | WEIGHTED GAP | HEADCOUNT | WEIGHTED GAP | ||
| Pay gap by professional group | |||||||
| Directors | 69 | 6.75% | 71 | 8.32% | 72 | 5.55% | |
| Expert professionals | 360 | 4.15% | 361 | 3.41% | 352 | 1.49% | |
| Professionals | 697 | 6.15% | 693 | 5,40% | 662 | 6.52% | |
| Staff | 1,449 | 0.38% | 1,404 | 1,10% | 1,388 | 1.74% | |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||
| MALE | FEMALE | MALE | FEMALE | MALE | FEMALE | ||
| Averages by professional category | |||||||
| Directors | 168,139 | 114,905 | 156,337 | 128,877 | 145,402 | 141,443 | |
| Expert professionals | 57,833 | 55,712 | 59,064 | 57,345 | 60,914 | 60,040 | |
| Professionals | 39,574 | 36,785 | 40, 155 | 37,543 | 41,572 | 38,296 | |
| Staff | 27,138 | 27,041 | 28,224 | 27,912 | 29,017 | 28,518 |
| Indicator | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | MALE | FEMALE | MALE | FEMALE | |
| Averages by age | ||||||
| <30 | 26,855 | 26,517 | 28,520 | 27,418 | 28,522 | 26,014 |
| >=30 and <50 | 37,539 | 34,628 | 39,127 | 35,636 | 40,766 | 36,946 |
| >=50 | 62,786 | 42,184 | 54.870 | 43,529 | 52,368 | 45,327 |
| Overall total | 39,933 | 35,292 | 40,902 | 36,667 | 41,619 | 37,921 |
| 2092 | 2092 | 2073 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay gap calculated by type of position | 2.6% | 2.8% | 3.1% |
| Pay gap calculated by type of position using median | 2.6% | 3.4% | 3.9% |
| Pay gap calculated by average of categories | 4.4% | 4.6% | 3.8% |
| Ratio of the percentage increase in the fixed compensation of the highest paid individual to the percentage increase in the median tixed compensation of all employees except the highest paid individual |
1.0 | 0.0 | 1. 4 |
| Ratio of the fixed compensation of the highest paid individual to the median compensation of the rest of the statt |
16.42 | 9.3 | 9.37 |
| Ratio of standard entry level wages compared to local minimum wage | 1.18 | 1.12 | 1.06 |
| Variable pay gap calculated by type of position | -0.4% | -2.0% | 0.4% |
| Variable pay gap calculated by type of position using the median | 5.0% | -7.6% | -9.6% |
Data on departures in the
Group
| 2021 | 20992 | 2023 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEPARTURES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
TURNOVER RATE |
DEPARTURES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
TURNOVER RATE |
DEPARTURES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
TURNOV ER RATE |
||||
| Total | 258 | 2,576 | 10.0% | 314 | 2,500 | 12.6% | 380 | 2,505 | 15.2% | |||
| Departures in the Group by gender | ||||||||||||
| Male | 132 | 1,096 | 12.0% | 144 | 1,068 | 13.5% | 212 | 1,046 | 20.3% | |||
| Dismissal | 70 | 6.4% | 81 | 7.58% | । । ર | 10.99% | ||||||
| Voluntary and other * |
62 | 5.7% | 63 | 5.90% | 97 | 9.27% | ||||||
| Female | 126 | 1,480 | 8.5% | 170 | 1,432 | 11.9% | 168 | 1,459 | 11.5% | |||
| Dismissal | 62 | 4.2% | 04 | 6.56% | 98 | 6.72% | ||||||
| Voluntary and other * |
64 | 4.3% | 76 | 5.31% | 70 | 4.80% | ||||||
| Departures in the Group by age |
||||||||||||
| <30 | 64 | 235 | 27.2% | 71 | 231 | 30.7% | 96 | 309 | 31.1% | |||
| Dismissa | 28 | 11.9% | 26 | 11.26% | 34 | 11.0% | ||||||
| Voluntary and other * |
36 | 15.3% | યેરે | 19.48% | 62 | 20.1% | ||||||
| >=30 and <50 |
171 | 1,880 | 9.1% | 200 | 1,739 | 11.5% | 241 | 1,623 | 14.8% | |||
| Dismissal | 92 | 4.9% | 123 | 7.01% | 152 | 9.4% | ||||||
| Voluntary and other * |
79 | 4.2% | 77 | 4.43% | 89 | 5.5% | ||||||
| >50 | 23 | 461 | 5.0% | 43 | 530 | 8.1% | 43 | 573 | 7.5% | |||
| Dismissal | 12 | 2.6% | 26 | 27 | 4.7% | |||||||
| Voluntary and other * |
11 | 2.4% | 17 | 16 | 2.8% |
* Voluntary and other: including voluntary redundancies, retirements and temporary contract terminations.
Data on departures in the
Group
| 2021 | 2012 | 2023 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEPARTURES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
TURNOVER RATE |
DEPARTURES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
TURNOVER RATE |
DEPARTURES | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT |
TURNOV ER RATE |
||
| lota | 258 | 2,576 | 10.0% | 314 | 2,500 | 12.6% | 380 | 2,505 | 15.2% | |
| Departures in the Group by professional group | ||||||||||
| Directors | 70 | 1.4% | ব | 74 | 5.4% | 7 | 72 | 9.7% | ||
| Dismissal | 0 | — % | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 1.4% | 4 | 5.6% | ||||
| Voluntary and other * |
] | 1.4% | 3 | 4.1% | 3 | 4.2% | ||||
| Expert professionals |
22 | 365 | 6.0% | 22 | 356 | 6.2% | 19 | 348 | 5.5% | |
| Dismissal | 5 | 1 .4% | 11 | 3.1% | 3 | 0.9% | ||||
| Voluntary and other * |
17 | 4.7% | 3.1% | 16 | 4.6% | |||||
| Professionals | 34 | 705 | 4.8% | 42 | 676 | 6.2% | 51 | 658 | 7.8% | |
| Dismissal | ો ર | 2.1% | 25 | 3.7% | 31 | 4.7% | ||||
| Voluntary and other * |
19 | 2.7% | 17 | 2.5% | 20 | 3.0% | ||||
| Staff | 201 | 1,436 | 14.0% | 246 | 1,394 | 17.6% | 303 | 1,427 | 21.2% | |
| Dismissal | 112 | 7.8% | 138 | 9.9% | 175 | 12.3% | ||||
| Voluntary and other * |
89 | 6.2% | 108 | 7.8% | 128 | 9.0% |
* Voluntary and other: including voluntary redundancies, retirements and temporary contract terminations
Directors
| 2021 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAYOFFS | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT | TURNOVER RATE | ||||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | ||
| Total | 70 | 62 | 132 | 1,096 | 1,480 | 2,576 | 6.4% | 4.2% | 5.1 | |
| Dismissals by professional group | ||||||||||
| Directors | () | o | () | 32 | 35 | 70 | - % | - % | - % | |
| Expert professionals | ന | 5 | 189 | 176 | 365 | 1.1% | 1.7% | 1.4% | ||
| Professionals | 13 | 2 | 15 | 283 | 422 | 705 | 4.6% | 0.5% | 2.1% | |
| Staff | રેર | 57 | 112 | 589 | 847 | 1.436 | 9.3% | 6.7% | 7.8 % |
| 2022 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAYOFFS | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT | TURNOVER RATE | ||||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | ||
| Total | 81 | 94 | 175 | .068 | .432 | 2,500 | 7.6% | 6.6% | 7.0 | |
| Dismissals by professional group | ||||||||||
| Directors | こ | 37 | 37 | 74 | 2.7% | - % | 1.4% | |||
| Expert protessionals | ব | ] | 187 | 169 | 356 | 2.1% | 4.1 % | 3.1 % | ||
| Professionals | 13 | 12 | 25 | 264 | 412 | 676 | 4.9% | 29% | 3.7 % | |
| Staff | 63 | 75 | 138 | 580 | 814 | 1.394 | 10.9 % | 9.2% | 99% |
| 2023 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAYOFFS | PERIOD-END HEADCOUNT | TURNOVER RATE | |||||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |||
| Total | 212 | 168 | 380 | 1.046 | .459 | 2,505 | 11.0% | 6.7% | 8.5% | ||
| Dismissals by professional group | |||||||||||
| Directors | 2 | ด | ব | 35 | 37 | 72 | 5.7% | 5.4% | 5.6% | ||
| Expert professionals | ന | । 85 | 163 | 348 | 1.1% | 0.6% | 0.9% | ||||
| Professionals | 17 | 4 | 31 | 261 | 397 | 658 | 6.5% | 3.5% | 4.7% | ||
| Staff | 04 | 81 | 175 | 565 | 862 | 1.427 | 16.6% | 9.4% | 12.3% |
* Voluntary and other: including voluntary redundancies, retirements and temporary contract terminations
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE TOTAL . | MALE | FEMAL ւ |
TOTAL . | MALE | FEMALE TOTAL | |||
| Accident rate | 0.004 | 0.000 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.000 | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.000 0.002 | ||
| Frequency rate | 5.009 | 0.372 | 2.349 | 4.595 | 0.000 | 1.953 | 5.240 | 0.000 | 2.211 |
| Severity rate | 0.132 | 0.014 0.064 | 0.070 | 0.000 | 0.030 | 0.186 | 0.000 0.079 | ||
| Number of deaths trom disease | |||||||||
| lypes of occupational diseases | |||||||||
| No. of accidents | 10 | の | o | の | 10 | O | 10 |
Accident rate: (No. of Occupational Accidents with sick leave not in itinere / Working Days) * 100
Frequency rate: (No. of Occupational Accidents with sick leave not in itinere / Working Days) * 1,000,000
Severity rate: (No. of Occupational Accidents with sick leave not in itinere / Working Days) * 1,000
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | No of days of absence 35,378 |
No of hours of absence 210,557 |
No of days of absence 41,521 |
No of hours of absence 242,293 |
No of days of absence 54,004 |
No of hours of absence 316,204 |
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| Common illness | 35,006 | 208,094 | 41,248 | 240,697 | 53,430 | 312,534 | ||||
| Male | 10,394 | 63,207 | 13,242 | 80,063 | 16,047 | 97,649 | ||||
| Female | 24,612 | 144,887 | 28,006 | 160,634 | 37,383 | 214,884 | ||||
| Total accidents with sick leave | 372 | 2,463 | 273 | 1,596 | 5/4 | 3,671 | ||||
| Male | 295 | 1,986 | 162 | 1 ,050 | 439 | 2,878 | ||||
| Female | 77 | 477 | 546 | । 35 | 793 | |||||
| Business days | 616,025 | 606,251 | 595,031 | |||||||
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | RATIO | MALE | FEMALE | RATIO | MALE | FEMALE | RATIO | ||
| Absenteeism ratio including ( Occunational Accidents |
4.10% | 7.00% | 5.70% | 4.20% | 8.35% | 6.05% | 5.94% | 9.80% | 8.11% |
| Indicator | 2092 | 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Total staff | 25,767.2 | 32,993.6 | 58,760.8 | 30, 145.5 | 38,680.9 | 68,826.4 | 34,773.0 | 47,806.0 | 82,579.0 |
| Hours of training by category | |||||||||
| Directors | 1,744.2 | 1,355.6 | 3,099.8 | 1,247.3 | 734.1 | 1,981.3 | 1 ,407 .4 | 764.8 | 2,172.2 |
| Expert protessionals | 8,689.4 | 7,089.1 | 15,778.6 | 5,450.5 | 5,527.3 | 10,977.8 | 4,758.8 | 4,229.4 | 8,988.2 |
| Professionals | 6,039.2 | 9,529.6 | 15,568.7 | 8,135.9 | 9,362.4 | 17,498.3 | 5,265.0 | 8,016.0 | 13,281.0 |
| Staff | 9,294.4 | 15,019.4 | 24,313.7 | 15,311.8 | 23,057.1 | 38,368.9 | 23,341.8 | 34,795.8 | 58,137.5 |
| Average training hours by category | |||||||||
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | |
| Total staff | 23.5 | 22.3 | 22.8 | 28.0 | 26.5 | 27.1 | 33.0 | 33.3 | 33.2 |
| Directors | 49.9 | 38.7 | 44.3 | 35.3 | 20.3 | 27.7 | 40.7 | 20.3 | 30.1 |
| Expert protessionals | 47.1 | 40.3 | 43.8 | 28.7 | 32.3 | 30.4 | 25.4 | 25.3 | 25.3 |
| Professionals | 21.7 | 22.7 | 22.3 | 29.6 | 22.3 | 25.2 | 20.2 | 20.0 | 20.1 |
| Staff | રેં રે | 17.6 | 16.7 | 26.5 | 27.7 | 27.2 | 41.0 | 41.9 | 41.5 |
| 2023 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | MALE | FEMALE | TOTAL | ||
| TRAINING HOURS | AVERAGE HEADCOUNT | AVERAGE HOURS | ||||||||
| Total staff | 34,773.0 | 47,806.0 | 1,052.9 | 1,435.4 | 2,488.3 | 33.0 | 33.3 | 33.2 | ||
| Average training hours by category | ||||||||||
| <30 | 11,168.2 | 14,155.5 25,323.7 | 121.9 | 145.0 | 266.9 | 91.6 | 97.6 | 949 | ||
| >=30 and <50 | 20,107.9 | 26,288.0 | 46,395.9 | 730.4 | 940.0 | 1,670.4 | 27.5 | 28.0 | 27.8 | |
| >=50 | 3,496.9 | 7,362.4 | 10,859.4 | 200.6 | 350.4 | 551.0 | 17.4 | 21.0 | 19.7 |
| Overview of training data | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. of training initiatives | 430 | 481 | 374 |
| Investment in training per person (€) | 228.4 | 200 | 198.16 |
| Investment in training per person trained (€) | 234.5 | 196 | 190.24 |
| People trained | 2,512 | 2,598 | 2,592 |
| Training hours | 58,761 | 68,826 | 82,579 |
| % staff trained | 97.4% | 91.9% | 90.4% |
| Areas | Content | Standards Areas: GRI associates |
Description GRI | Chapter of the Report | Pdypofthe Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Model | Brief description of the Group's business model, which will include: its business environment, 2.) its organisation and structure, the markets in which it operates, 3. |
2-1 | Organisational details | Purpose, mission, vision and values Business environment Business model Sustainability |
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| 2-6 | Activities, value chain and other business relationships |
Pages 181-182 | |||
| বা its objectives and strategies, and |
2-7 | Employees | Pages 190 - 219 | ||
| 5.) the main tactors and trends that may aftect its future development. |
2-22 | Sustainable Development Strategy Statement |
management | ||
| Policies | A description of the policies pursued by the group in relation to those matters, including: 1 . } the due diligence procedures applied for the identification, assessment, prevention and mitigation of signiticant risks and impacts. 2.) the verification and control procedures, including what measures have been taken. |
3-3 | Management of material aspects Ethics and transparency | Pages 232 - 242 | |
| Short term, medium term, and long term risks |
I he main risks related to these issues associated with the Group's activities, Including, where relevant and proportionate, its business relationships, products or services that may have an adverse impact in these areas, and how the Group manages these risks, · explaining the procedures used to identify and assess them in accordance with the national, European or international frameworks of reference for each matter. · Should include information on the impacts detected, with the related breakdown, in particular on the main short-, medium- and long-term risks. |
3-3 | Management of material aspects Risk Model and Risk | Management | Pages 246 - 259 |
| KPls | Non-tinancial key performance indicators that are relevant to the particular business activity and that meet criteria of comparability, materiality, relevance and reliability. · In order to tacilitate the comparison of information, both over time and among entities, certain standards for nonfinancial key performance indicators that may be generally applied and that comply with the guidelines of the European Commission in this regard and the Global Reporting Initiative standards will be used, whereby the national, European or international tramework used for each area must be specified in the report. · The non-linancial key performance indicators must be applied to each section of the non-tinancial statement. · These indicators must be useful, taking into account the specific circumstances that are consistent with the parameters used in their internal risk management and assessment procedures. · In any case, the disclosures must be accurate, comparable and veritiable. |
About this report | Pages 179 - 180 | ||
| Global Environment |
| l . ) Detailed information on the actual and potential impacts of the company's operations on the environment and, where applicable, health and sately, the assessment procedures or environmental certificate; 2. } The resources allocated to the prevention of environmental risks; (3.) The application of the precautionary principle, the amount of provisions and guarantees for environmental risks. (e.g. arising from the environmental responsibility law) |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | Climate change governance and management Risks and opportunities in the tace of climate change Carbon tootprint environmental management system Biodiversity Adaptation to climate change |
Pages 260-284 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-23 | Commitment policies | ||||||
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | ||||||
| 201-2 | Financial implications and other risks and opportunities due to climate change |
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| 308-1 | New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria |
Subcontracting and suppliers |
Pages 324-326 | ||||
| Pollution | |||||||
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects governance and | Climate change | |||||
| I.) Measures to prevent, reduce or remediate carbon emissions that seriously aftect the environment; 2. I laking into account any form of activity-specitic air pollution, including noise and light pollution. |
305-5 Reduction of GHG emissions | management Risks and opportunities in the tace ot climate change Carbon tootprint environmental management system Biodiversity Adaptation to climate change |
Pages 260-284 | ||||
| Environmental issues | Circular economy and waste prevention and management | ||||||
| Circular economy | 3-3 | Management of material aspects management system | Environmental Waste generation |
Page 268 | |||
| Waste: Prevention measures, recycling, reuse and other forms of recovery and elimination of waste |
3-3 | Approach to ettluents and waste management |
Environmental managemen | ||||
| 306-1 | Waste generation and significant wasterelated impacts |
system: Waste generation | Page 268 | ||||
| 306-2 | Waste by type and disposal method |
Appendix: Environmental | Page 331 | ||||
| 306-3 | Waste generated | indicators | |||||
| Actions to combat tood waste | 3-3 | Management of material aspects About this report | Pages 179-180 | ||||
| Sustainable use of resources | |||||||
| I he consumption of water and the supply of water in accordance with local | 303-5 | Water consumption | Appendix: Environmental indicators |
Page 331 | |||
| estrictions; | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Environmental management system |
Pages 26/- 269 |
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| Consumption of materials and the measures taken to improve etticiency in their use; | 301-1 | Materials used by weight or volume |
Appendix: Environmental indicators |
Page 331 |
Línea Directa Aseguradora and subsidiaries
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Environmental management system |
Pages 267- 269 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct and indirect consumption of energy, measures taken to improve energy etticiency and the use of renewable energy |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | :nvironmental management system |
Pages 267- 269 |
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| 302-1 | Energy consumption within the organisation |
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| 302-3 | Energy intensity | Appendix: Environmental indicators |
Page 330 | ||
| 302-4 | Reduction of energy consumption | ||||
| Climate Change | |||||
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Carbon tootprint | Pages 266-26/ | ||
| The important elements of greenhouse gas emissions generated as a result of the | 305-1 | Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions | |||
| company's activities, including the use of the goods and services produced; | 305-2 | Energy indirect (Scope 2) GHG emissions |
Appendix: Environmental indicators |
Page 330 | |
| 305-5 | GHG emissions intensity | ||||
| The measures adopted to adapt to the consequences of climate change; | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Risk and opportunities in the face of climate change |
Pages 262-265 | |
| Environmental issues | 201-2 | Financial implications and other risks and opportunities due to climate change |
Adaptation to climate change |
Pages 270-284 | |
| The voluntarily established medium and longterm emission reduction targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the measures implemented for this purpose. |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | Carbon tootprint environmental management system Appendix: Environmental indicators |
Pages 266-269 Page 330 |
|
| 305-5 | Reduction of GHG emissions | ||||
| Biodiversity protection | |||||
| Measures taken to preserve or restore biodiversity; Impacts caused by activities or operations in protected areas. |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | Biodiversity | Pages 260 -270 | |
| laxonomy | |||||
| Eligibility and alignment of business activities with the European Taxonomy | Regulation 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2020 and related Delegated Regulations |
Adaptation to climate change |
Pages 270-284 |
Egyployment
Línea Directa Aseguradora and subsidiaries
| lotal number and distribution of employees by gender, age, country and professional classitication |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | Talent attraction lalent managemen |
Pages 100-103 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-7 | Employees | Appendix on people | ||||
| 405-1 | Diversity in governance bodies and employees |
indicators | Pages 135-153 | |||
| lotal number and distribution of work contracts by type, | 2-7 | Employees | Appendix on people indicators |
Pages 135-153 | ||
| Annual average of permanent, temporary and part-lime contracts by gender, age and professional category |
2-7 | Employees | Appendix on people | |||
| 405-1 | Diversity in governance bodies and employees |
indicators | Pages 135-153 | |||
| Number of dismissals by gender, age and professional category; | 401-1 | New employee hires and employee turnover |
Appendix on people indicators |
Pages 135-153 | ||
| Average salaries and their progress broken down by sex, age and professional classitication or equal value; |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | Corporate remuneration and benefits |
Pages 108-109 | ||
| 405-2 | Ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men |
Appendix on people indicators |
Pages 135-153 | |||
| Pay gap, remuneration tor equal or average jobs, | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Corporate remuneration and benefits Pay gap |
Pages 108-110 | ||
| Social and personnel issues |
Average remuneration of directors and executives, including variable remuneration, attendance tees, severance payments, payments to long term savings schemes and any other compensation broken down by gender, |
405-2 | Ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men |
Appendix on people indicators |
Pages 135-153 | |
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Corporate governance | Pages 44-54 | |||
| 102-35, 2-19 | Remuneration policies | system | ||||
| mplementation of labour disconnect policies, | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Employee wellness, work- lite balance and digital disconnection policy |
Pages 298-30 I | ||
| Employees with disabilities | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | ||||
| 405-1 | Diversity in governance bodies and employees |
Disability and accessibility | Pages 310-311 | |||
| Organisation of work | ||||||
| Organisation of work time | 3-3 | Management of material aspects life balance and digital | Employee wellness, work- disconnection policy |
Pages 298- 301 | ||
| Number of hours of absenteeism | 403-9 | Occupational accident injuries | Appendix on people | |||
| 403-10 | Occupational diseases and illnesses |
indicators | Pages 332- 356 | |||
| Measures aimed at facilitating worklife balance and promoting shared responsibility of both parents |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | Employee wellness, work- life balance and digital |
Pages 298- 301 |
Línea Directa Aseguradora and subsidiaries
| disconnection policy | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health and safety | |||||||
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Pages 304-306 | |||||
| 403-1 | Occupational health and satety management system |
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| 403-2 | Hazard identitication, risk assessment and incident investigation |
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| lealth and satety conditions in the work place; | 403-3 | Occupational health services | Health and satety | ||||
| 403-4 | Worker participation, consultation and communication on occupational health and satety |
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| 403-6 | Promotion of workers' health | ||||||
| 403-8 | Occupational health and satety management system coverage |
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| Occupational accidents, in particular their trequency and seriousness; Occupational illnesses, broken down by gender |
403-9 | Occupational accident injuries | Appendix on people indicators |
Pages 332-356 | |||
| 403-10 | Occupational diseases and illnesses |
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| Social and personnel issues |
Social relationships | ||||||
| Organisation of social dialogue, including procedures tor notitying and consulting personnel and negotiating with them; |
3-3 | Management of material aspects Dialogue with employees. | Employee relations. Union representation. |
Pages 306-309 | |||
| Percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements by country; | 2-30 | Collective bargaining agreements |
Employee relations. Dialogue with employees. Union representation. |
Pages 306-309 | |||
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | ||||||
| Balance of collective bargaining agreements, in particular with regard to bccupational health and satety |
403-4 | Worker participation, consultation and communication on occupational health and satety |
Health and satety | Pages 304- 300 |
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| Mechanisms and procedures that the company has in place to promote the involvement of employees in the management of the company in terms of intormation, consultation and participation. |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | Employee relations | Page 306 | |||
| Training | |||||||
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | lalent management Re- | Pages 293- | ||||
| 345 | Policies implemented with regard to training; | 404-2 | Programmes to upgrade employee skills and transition assistance programmes |
evoluciona | 296 |
| Total number of hours of training by professional category; | Average hours of training per year per employee |
Appendix on people indicators |
Pages 332-356 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jniversal accessibility for persons with disabilities | Management of material aspects Disability and accessibility | Pages 310-311 | |||||
| Equality | |||||||
| Social and personnel issues |
Measures adopted to promote equal treatment and opportunities for men and women; |
Management of material aspects | Diversity and equality | Pages 286-290 | |||
| Equality plans (Chapter III of Organic Law 3/2007, of 22 March, for effective equality between men and women), measures adopted to promote employment, brotocols against sexual and gender harassment, the integration and universal accessibility for disabled persons; |
3-3 | ||||||
| Policy against all types of discrimination and, where applicable, for diversity management |
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| Ethics | |||||||
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | ||||||
| Application of due diligence processes with regard to human rights. Prevention ot risks of human rights violations and, where applicable, measures to mifigate, manage and repair potential abuses committed; |
Guiding principles and Commitment policies human rights |
Page 242- 245 |
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| Mechanisms for seeking advice and raising issues |
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| Reports of cases of human rights violations; | Management of material aspects | Guiding principles and | Pages 242- 245 |
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| Human rights | Incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken |
human rights | |||||
| Promotion and compliance with the provisions of the core conventions of the International Labour Organisation related to respect for the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining; |
3-3 | Management of material aspects | Health and satety | Pages 304- 306 |
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| I he elimination of discrimination in employment and occupation; | Management of material aspects | ||||||
| The elimination of forced or compulsory labour; The effective abolition of child labour |
Incidents of discrimination and | Guiding principles and human rights |
Pages 242- 245 |
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| corrective actions taken | |||||||
| Corruption and bribery | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | |||||
| Measures adopted to prevent corruption and bribery; | Commitment policies | Ethics and transparency | Pages 232- 242 |
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| Mechanisms for seeking advice and raising issues |
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| Contirmed incidents of corruption and actions taken |
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| Measures to combat money laundering | 205-2 | Communication and training on anti-corruption policies and procedures |
Ethics and transparency | Pages 232- 242 |
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| 346 | Contributions to foundations and NGOs | 413-1 | Operations with local community engagement, impact |
Society | Page 312 | ||
| assessments, and development programmes |
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| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | ||||||
| 203-1 | Intrastructure investments and services supported |
Línea Directa Foundation | Pages 314- 318 |
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| The impact of the company's activity on employment and local development | 203-2 | Signiticant indirect economic impacts |
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| 413-1 | Operations with local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programmes |
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| 203-1 | Intrastructure investments and services supported |
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| 203-2 | Signiticant indirect economic impacts |
Línea Directa Foundation | Pages 314- 3 8 |
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| The impact of the company's activities on local populations and the region | 413-1 | Operations with local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programmes |
Corporate volunteering | Pages 319- 324 |
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| 2-29 | Approach to stakeholder engagement |
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| Society | The relationships with the main players in local communities and the types of dialogue established with them |
413-1 | Operations with local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programmes |
Corporate volunteering | Pages 319- 324 |
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| Association or sponsorship actions | 2-28 | Partner associations | Society | Page 312 | |||
| 2-6 | Activities, value chain and other business relationships |
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| The inclusion of social, gender equality and environmental issues in | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Subcontracting and suppliers |
Pages 324 - 326 | |||
| procurement policy; Consideration of social and environmental responsibility in relationships with suppliers and subcontractors |
308-1 | New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria |
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| 414-1 | New suppliers that were screened using social criteria |
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| Supervision and audit systems and their results | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Subcontracting and suppliers |
Pages 324 - 326 | |||
| Consumers | |||||||
| 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Customer Services department Service quality |
Pages 327 - 328 | ||||
| Measures towards the health and sately of consumers | 4161 | Assessment of the health and safety impacts of product and service categories |
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| Society | Systems for claims, complaints received and resolution | 3-3 | Management of material aspects | Customer Services | Page 327 |
Línea Directa Aseguradora and subsidiaries
| 4162 | department | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tax Intormation | |||||||
| Protit obtained country by country. Taxes paid on profits | 3-3 | Management of material aspects Ethics and transparency Pages 234 - 235 | |||||
| Public subsidies received | 201-4 | Financial assistance received trom government |
Ethics and transparency | Pages 234 - 235 |
| Statement of use | LINEA DIRECTA ASEGURADORA, S.A. SEGUROS has presented the information in this GR Content Index for the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023, using the GRI Standards as a reference. |
|---|---|
| Jsed GRI 1" | GRI 1: Fundamentals 2021 |
| Applicable GRI industry standards |
| GRI standard | Contents | Location | Page | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRI 2: 2021 General Content |
2-1 Organisational details | Scope of the report Corporate Intormation |
LINEA DIRECTA ASEGURADORA, S.A. COMPANIA DE SEGUROS Y REASEGUROS 179 For further information on the nature and legal form of the Annual |
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| Tax practices | 234 - 235 As for the location's headquarters, it is as follows: Calle !sacc Newton, 7 Pol. Ind. Madrid. |
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| 2-2 Entities included in sustainability Scope of the report reporting |
179 | |||
| 2-3 Reporting period, frequency and About this report contact point |
The liternated Management elects the economic, scial and environmentl performance of Lined Direct Group in the inquiry of 2023, which was from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 1 179 - 180 financial year is 29.02.2024. Contact details: External Communications and Sustainability department [email protected]. Tel: +34 91 807 20 00 |
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| 2-4 Updating Information | About this report | 179 - 180 Where information has a different temporal or organisational scope than in previous years, | ||
| 2-5 External verification | About this report / External verification |
179 - 180 | ||
| 2-7 Employees | Appendix on people indicators | 332-356 | The company does not have employees on a non-guaranteed hourly basis. Despite having a company located in Portugal, the company only has employees in Spain. |
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| 2-9 Governance structure and composition |
Corporate bodies Executive committees |
223 228 - 231 |
For more information on the computy's governance structure and practices, please refer to the Annual Corporate Governance Repor 2023, available on Lined Is corporate website | |
| 2-10 Appointment and selection of the highest governance body |
Selection: independence and diversity |
225 | For more information on the compuny's governmes structures , please refer to the Annual Corporate Governance Report 2023, available on Lined Lises in Section Corporate Govern Statement. |
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| 2-11 Chair of the highest governance body |
Board of Directors | 224 | The chairman of the Board of Directors is not a senior executive of the organisation. For more information, please refer to the Annual Corporate Governance Report 2023, availoble on Línea Directa's corporate website, section Corporate Governance/Remuneration Corporate Governance Statement. |
| GRI standard | Contents | Location | Page | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRI 2: 2021 General Content |
2-14 Highest governance body's role in presenting sustainability reporting |
The Board of Directors is the body responsible for reviewing and approving the Integrated Management Report, which includes the Non-Financial Information Statement. | ||
| 2-17 Collective knowledge of highest governance body |
Assessment Appendix - jurisdiction matrix |
22d For more information on the company's government procices, please refer to the | ||
| 2-18 Evaluating the highest governance body's performance |
Assessment Appendix - jurisdiction matrix |
22d For more information on the company's government proctices, please refer to the | ||
| 2-19 Remuneration policies | Remuneration | |||
| 2-20 Process for determining remuneration |
Remuneration | For more information, please refer to the Annual Corporate Governance Report 2023, 226 - 227 gvailable on Línea Directa's corporate website, section Corporate Governance/R Policy, section Corporate Governance Statement. |
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| 2-22 Statement on the sustainable development strategy |
Letter from the Chairman Interview with the CEO |
172 - 174 175 - 178 |
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| 2-26 Mechanisms for seeking advice and raising issues |
Ethics Channel | 234 | ||
| 2-27 Compliance with laws and regulations |
During 2023 and as in 2022 and 2021, Línea Directa Group did not receive, through the channels available for this purpose, any significant fines or non-monetary penalties for non- compliance with applicable legislation or regulations. |
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| 2-28 Membership ot associations |
Contributions to associations | 241 - 242 | ||
| 2-29 Approach to stakeholder engagement |
Dialogue with stakeholders | 217 - 219 | ||
| 2-30 Collective bargaining agreements |
Irade union representation Collective agreement data |
309 348 |
| Material topics | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-1 Process ot determining material issues |
About this report | 179 - 180 | ||||
| Materiality analysis and indicators | 205 -206 | ||||||
| 3-2 List of material issues | Materiality analysis and indicators | 205 - 206 | |||||
| Fight against climate change | |||||||
| Climate change governance and management | 261 | ||||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of material topics |
Risks and opportunities in the tace of climate change |
262 - 265 | ||||
| 305-1 Direct (Scope 1) GHG emissions |
Carbon tootprint | 266 - 267 | |||||
| Appendix - Environmental indicators | 330 | ||||||
| 305-2 Indirect energy- | Carbon tootprint | 266 - 267 | |||||
| GRI 305: Emissions (2016) | related GHG emissions (Scope 2) |
Appendix - Environmental indicators | 330 | ||||
| 305-4 GHG emissions ıntensity |
Appendix - Environmental indicators | 330 | |||||
| Sustainable products: mobility, home and health | |||||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of material topics |
Business model/Strategy | 196 - 204 | ||||
| Ethics and compliance | |||||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of material topics |
Ethics and transparency | 232 - 242 | ||||
| GRI 201: Economic performance (2016) |
201-4 Financial assistance received trom government |
Tax practices | 234 - 236 | No significant financial aid has been received trom the government, nor in 2022 and 2021. |
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| GRI 205: Anti-corruption (2016) | 205-3 Contirmed incidents ot corruption and actions taken |
Fight against corruption and bribery | 237 -238 | There have been no cases of corruption in the tiscal year under review, nor in 2022 and 2021 . |
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| GRI 207: Tax (2019) | 207-1 Approach to tax | Tax practices | 234 - 236 | ||||
| 207-2 Tax governance, control and risk management |
Tax practices | 234 - 236 | |||||
| GRI 406: Non-discrimination (2016) |
406-1 Incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken |
Reports of human rights violations | 245 | In 2023, as in the previous two years, no complaints of human rights violations were received. |
| Intormation security | |||||
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| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of material topics |
Data protection | 238 - 239 | ||
| Cybersecurity | 239 - 241 | ||||
| GRI 418: Customer privacy (2016) concerning breaches of | 418-1 Substantiated complaints regarding customer privacy and losses ot customer data |
Data protection Cybersecurity |
239 - 241 | In 2023, there were 3 cases where data protection authorities contacted the company requesting information (5 in 2022 and 1 in 2021). Of these, only one case remained open at the end of 2023. No resolution involving financial or other sanctions was determined during 238 - 239 the year, nor in 2022 and 2021. With regard to substantiated complaints from third parties, the company considers this to be a confidential matter that should not be made public. In addition, there were 2 cases involving the security of personal data where the company considered it necessary to notity to data protection authorities (none in 2022 and 2 in 2021). In all cases, the authorities tound the intormation provided to be sufficient and the cases were closed without further action. |
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| The company considers that any substantiated claims made by third parties are contidential and are therefore not included in this report. |
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| Diversity and equality | |||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of material topics |
Diversity and equality | 286 -290 | ||
| Health, satety and well-being of professionals | |||||
| 3-3 Management of material topics |
Employee well-being | 298 -301 | |||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | Health and satety | 304 - 306 | |||
| GRI 401: Employment (2016) | 401-3 Parental leave | Reconciliation data | 345 | ||
| GRI 403: Occupational health and 403-5 Worker training on satety (2018) |
403-4 Worker participation, consultation, and communication on occupational health and satety. |
Health and satety committee | 306 | ||
| occupational health and satety. |
Study of psychosocial factors | 305 | |||
| 403-6 Promotion of worker health |
"Wellbeing to Be Well" wellness programme | 298 - 301 |
| Attraction and loyalty of the best talent | ||||
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| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management ot material topics |
Talent attraction lalent management Pertormance management |
291 - 297 | |
| GRI 401: Employment (2016) | 401 -1 New employee hires and employee turnover |
New hire data | 340 | |
| Data on departures in the Group | 351 - 353 | |||
| GRI 404: Training and education (2016) |
404-1 Average hours of training per year per employee |
Training data | 355 - 356 | |
| GRI 405: Diversity and equal opportunity (2016) |
405-1 Diversity in governance bodies and employees |
Appendix on people indicators | 332 - 356 | At year-end 2023, 58% of our workforce was female, compared to 42% male (57% and 43% in 2022 and 2021, reseatives)) We also have different generations of employees society (1 our teams, with the 30-50 age group standing out of 65% and 12%. hollowed by the over-50s at 23% and the under-30s of 12% (70%, 21% and 9% respectively in 2022 and 73%, 18% a Employees with disabilities represented 1.5% at the end of 2023 (1.5% in 2022 and 1.4% in 2021). For more information on the diversity of the company's Board of Directors, please refer to the Annual Corporate Governance Report 2023, available on Línea Directa's corporate website, section Corporate Governance/Remuneration Policy, section Corporate Governance Statement. |
| 405-2 Ratio ot basic salary ot remuneration and women to men |
Remuneration data | 346 - 347 | Data is provided tor the entire reporting period. | |
| Pay gap data | 349 - 350 | |||
| Quality and customer satistaction | ||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of material topics |
Customer Services department | 327 | |
| 328 Service quality Responsible investment |
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| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of material topics |
Sustainable investment | 313 |
| Responsible supply chain | |||||
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| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of Material topics |
Subcontracting and suppliers | 324 - 326 | ||
| GR 204: Procurement practices (2016) |
[204-1 Proportion of spending on Subcontracting and suppliers local suppliers |
324 - 326 | The percentage of purchases trom local suppliers as a percentage of total spend is shown. |
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| GRI 308: Supplier environmental assessment (2016) |
308-1 New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria |
Supply chain: purchases from local suppliers Assessment of critical suppliers |
325 - 326 | In 2023, the ESG questionnaire was conducted for a tew recurring suppliers, with the aim of extending the scope to all suppliers in the coming years. However, the company has been including questions on ESG issues in its supplier approvals since 2017. |
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| GRI 414: Supplier social assessment (2016) |
414-1 New suppliers that were screened using social criteria |
Supply chain: purchases trom local suppliers Assessment of critical suppliers |
In 2023, the ESG questionnaire was conducted for a tew recurring 325 - 326 suppliers, with the aim of extending the scope to all suppliers in the coming years. However, the company has been including questions on ESG issues in its supplier approvals since 2017. |
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| Environmental management and responsible consumption | |||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of Material topics |
Environmental management system | 267 - 269 | ||
| GRI 301: Materials (2016) | 301-1 Materials used by weight or volume |
Appendix - Environmental indicators | 331 | The materials consumed (toner and paper) are non-renewable. | |
| GRI 302: Energy (2016) | 302-1 Energy consumption within the organisation |
Appendix - Environmental indicators | 330 | Reported tuel consumption comes from non-renewable sources only. All the electricity consumed is purchased, except for self-generated electricity. |
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| GRI 303: Water and effluents (2018) |
303-5 Water consumption | Appendix - Environmental indicators | 331 | Water consumption is reported for all company subsidiaries. The water supply in all subsidiaries comes from authorised public water supply networks. All supply comes trom areas with low or no water stress. |
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| GRI 306: Waste (2020) | 306-3 Waste generated | Appendix - Environmental indicators | 331 | ||
| Transparency and dialogue with stakeholders | |||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of material topics |
Dialogue with stakeholders | 217 - 219 | ||
| Digitalisation | |||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of Material topics |
Identified risks | 249 - 259 | ||
| Social contribution | |||||
| GRI 3: Material topics (2021) | 3-3 Management of Material topics |
Línea Directa Foundation | 314 - 324 | ||
| Corporate volunteering |
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