IVASS has recently published a letter to the market clarifying obligations for insurance undertakings and intermediaries under Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures related to Ukraine's...more
On 28 March 2024, IVASS launched a second public consultation on a draft regulation regarding unit and linked insurance products. The purpose of the draft regulation is to lay down the rules aimed at updating, in line with...more
IVASS has recently launched a public consultation on a draft regulation providing amendments and integrations to its existing regulations on insurance and reinsurance distribution and on information, advertising and designing...more
IVASS has recently launched a public consultation on a document providing amendments to its Regulation no. 40/2018 in order to enable the registration of insurance intermediaries on the web portal of the Register of insurance...more
IVASS has recently launched a public consultation on a document providing amendments and integrations to some of its secondary regulations, in order to align them to the new European rules on sustainable finance. The IVASS...more
The Italian annual market and competition law - recently published in the Italian official Gazette - provides, among other things, for an amendment in relation to the rules on direct compensation system for motor liability...more
IVASS has launched a public consultation in order to amend certain provisions of IVASS Regulation No. 40/2018 on insurance and reinsurance distribution, in particular regarding professional requirements of insurance...more
IVASS has launched a survey aimed at understanding the use of Machine Learning algorithms by Italian insurance undertakings and Italian branches of non-EU insurance undertakings, which are required to fill in a specific...more
IVASS has launched a public consultation on a draft regulation laying down provisions on the setting up of an online comparison system for premiums related to the so-called basic contract offered by insurance undertakings...more
IVASS has launched a public consultation on a draft regulation laying down provisions on the use of external experts for the purposes of mystery shopping activities, i.e. the activity carried out incognito by or on assignment...more
On 11 March 2022, IVASS launched a public consultation on a draft regulation which would introduce new provisions governing unit-linked and index-linked policies issued by Italian and foreign insurance undertakings. On the...more
On 28 January 2022, IVASS launched a public consultation on a draft regulation providing rules related to the obligation to communicate to IVASS data and information on non-life premiums collected in Italy by insurance...more
On 23 December 2021 IVASS published a set of clarifications regarding a number of Italian provisions governing the insurance distribution activity. Following a series of meetings held between the Italian insurance...more
On 23 March, IVASS, in the run-up to the entry into force of its Regulation No. 45/2020 on insurance products oversight and governance requirements (“POG”) and Measure No. 97/2020 mainly providing amendments to the current...more
On 31 December 2020, Law Decree No. 183 of 31 December 2020 introducing, among others, specific provisions addressed to UK insurance undertakings in relation to their business and obligations following the end of the...more
IVASS published a public consultation in order to amend its Regulation no. 14 of 18 February 2008 ruling - among others - the authorization procedure applicable to insurance portfolio transfers....more
Following three public consultations launched on 23 September 2019, IVASS and CONSOB completed the implementation in Italy of (EU) Directive 2016/97 on insurance distribution ("IDD"), by publishing IVASS Measure No. 97/2020,...more
On 18 June 2020, the Italian Insurance Regulator (IVASS) published its annual report on the supervisory activity carried out in 2019. The Chairman of IVASS Mr. Daniele Franco in his considerations introducing the report...more
On 17 March 2020, IVASS and the Bank of Italy issued a joint communication regarding the cross-selling of insurance products and financing (the "Communication") to be delivered to the members of the management and supervisory...more
As a result of the health emergency caused by the widespread outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and disease, specific measures have been adopted in Italy starting from the beginning of March 2020 in order to contain the impact...more
1. IVASS monitoring KIDs of insurance-based investment products (IBIPs) - On 10 July, IVASS launched a preliminary public consultation which could possibly be followed by a tendering procedure for the selection of a...more
Last night the Italian Government approved the law decree aimed at ensuring financial stability and market integrity in the event of hard Brexit (the "Decree")....more
In data 1° ottobre 2018 è entrata in vigore nell’Unione Europea la Direttiva (UE) 2016/97 del 20 gennaio 2016 (nota come Insurance Distribution Directive – IDD, di seguito la Direttiva) che apporta rilevanti modifiche alla...more
On 8 June IVASS launched three public consultations on its draft regulations providing for secondary level legislation regarding insurance and reinsurance distribution, pre-contractual transparency requirements to be met in...more
In a letter to the market published by IVASS yesterday, the Italian insurance regulator expressly clarified that the scope of application of the guidelines set out in a previous letter to the market also includes EU insurance...more