Judith,
The DG Internal Market has a section on insurance with
reports, press releases and legislation - some seem to be
relevant
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/finances/insur/index.htm
best wishes
Patrick Overy
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:32:07 +0000 Judith Ryser
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> Could anyone enlighten me about some new EU legislation which is claimed
> to have been introduced some three months ago, preventing insurance
> companies from insuring EU residents across nation state boundaries.
>
> A lot is being written and debated about the restrictive practices put
> in the way of EU citizens and their ability to purchase their motorcars
> where they wish and use them, and register them where they live. Nobody
> seems to have drawn attention to the fact that the insurance companies
> -albeit often multinationals or global companies such as Zuerich,
> Winterthur or AXA etc- refuse to insure people across borders. When I
> tried to buy a car in France where I have a secondary residence, it took
> a great deal of bureaucracy to get this done. The greatest hurdle was
> that no UK insurance (even the one I had for years) wanted to insure me
> in France for the time to bring the car back to the UK and register it
> here, while no French insurance wanted to insure my car in France as it
> was going to be registered abroad. How does that tally with the Single
> European Market? Isn't there a free movement of services??? Which
> legislation is preventing these free movements? If these are simply more
> restrictive practices, they should be exposed.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Judith Ryser
>
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>
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>
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