EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, XXX COM(2012) 360 ... - BVVM
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, XXX COM(2012) 360 ... - BVVM
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, XXX COM(2012) 360 ... - BVVM
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einsurance intermediaries in the internal market. It is therefore appropriate to replace<br />
Directive 77/92/EEC with a new directive.<br />
new<br />
(9) Current and recent financial turbulence has underlined the importance of ensuring<br />
effective consumer protection across all financial sectors. It is appropriate therefore to<br />
strengthen the confidence of customers and to make regulatory treatment of the<br />
distribution of insurance products more uniform in order to ensure an adequate level of<br />
customer protection across the Union. Measures to protect customers should be<br />
adapted to the particularities of each category of customers (professional or other).<br />
2002/92/EC recital 11 (adapted)<br />
new<br />
(10) This Directive should apply to persons whose activity consists in of providing<br />
insurance or reinsurance mediation services to third parties for remuneration,<br />
which may be pecuniary or take some other form of agreed economic benefit tied to<br />
performance.<br />
new<br />
(11) This Directive should apply to persons whose activity consists of the provision of<br />
information on one or more contracts of insurance or reinsurance in response to<br />
criteria selected by the customer whether via a website or other means, or the<br />
provision of a ranking of insurance or reinsurance products or a discount on the price<br />
of a contract, when the customer is able to directly conclude an insurance contract at<br />
the end of the process; it should not apply to mere introducing activities consisting of<br />
the provision of data and information on potential policyholders to insurance or<br />
reinsurance intermediaries or undertakings or of information about insurance or<br />
reinsurance products or an insurance or reinsurance intermediary or undertaking to<br />
potential policyholders.<br />
2002/92/EC recital 12<br />
(12) This Directive should not apply to persons with another professional activity, such as<br />
tax experts or accountants, who provide advice on insurance cover on an incidental<br />
basis in the course of that other professional activity, neither should it apply to the<br />
mere provision of information of a general nature on insurance products, provided that<br />
the purpose of that activity is not to help the customer conclude or fulfil an insurance<br />
or reinsurance contract, nor the professional management of claims for an insurance or<br />
reinsurance undertaking, nor the loss adjusting and expert appraisal of claims.<br />
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