Insurance Europe: Response provided to EIOPA on product oversight and governance

23 January 2015

"Basic principles on product oversight and governance are acceptable, but the risks and the level of administrative burden lie in the prescriptiveness of such guidelines."

In its response, Insurance Europe pointed out that the proposed guidelines could lead to too many prescriptive and overly-formal POG processes. This would significantly increase insurers’ administrative workload and detrimentally affect insurers’ competitiveness.

Insurance Europe warned that any additional administrative costs would ultimately have to be borne by policyholders. Therefore, the focus of any proposed POG provisions should be on more demanding, sophisticated insurance products.

Insurance Europe also expressed concern that EIOPA is pre-empting the political discussions regarding POG that will take place during the trialogues on IMD2 with such guidelines.

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