EU Member States have chosen Petra Hielkema, the Director of Insurance Supervision at the Dutch Central Bank, to head the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA).
This is stated in a letter to the Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), approved on Wednesday 5 May by the ambassadors of the Member States to the EU (Coreper) and copied to EUROPE.
At the end of March, the EIOPA Board of Supervisors sent its shortlist of candidates (see EUROPE 12684/30) to the EU Council and Parliament. Alongside Petra Hielkema, the Head of Division at the Bank of England Prudential Policy Directorate, Paolo Cadoni, and the CEO of Athora Germany, Christian Thimann, were in the running.
The letter states that the three candidates were interviewed by the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council, on behalf of the Member States, on 15 April. On 21 April, an informal consultation was launched and no Member State objected to the appointment of Ms Hielkema, who was ranked first by the EIOPA Board of Supervisors.
In the letter, Coreper thus informs Parliament that, if it confirms Ms Hielkema as Chairperson of EIOPA, the EU Council will adopt an implementing decision to record her appointment.
According to a provisional agenda, Parliament’s ECON Committee could hear the candidate on Monday 10 May and then decide on her nomination.
See the letter: https://bit.ly/3h3av4Y (Original version in French by Marion Fontana)