This master thesis is devoted to technical provisions problematics in insurance companies and their successive development. It analyses methods of creating technical provisions over the years and monitors their conformation to the development of legislation. The aim of the work is to bring the technical provisions closer in a comprehensive overview. The first part constitutes the classic accounting concept of technical provisions and their individual parts. The second part is dedicated to the development of regulation from the point of view of Solvency II that has been valid since first of January 2016 for most insurance companies across Europe and the recent enactment of the taxation of technical provisions in the Czech Republic. The third...