IDD General Good Provisions

Insurance undertakings and/or intermediaries that intend to carry on business in EU/EEA Member State(s) need to comply with national requirements, also called General Good provisions. These are national rules of the Member States which introduce additional requirements addressing specificities of the respective markets.

To promote transparency for cross-border activity, EIOPA has published on this page:

• Hyperlinks to the websites of competent authorities where information on ‘general good’ rules is published (Article 11(3), first sentence, IDD)
• Report on national general good rules
• National ‘general good’ rules categorised into different relevant areas of law (Article 11(3), second sentence, IDD)

Hyperlinks to the websites of competent authorities where information on ‘general good’ rules is published

Please note that EIOPA is not responsible for the correctness of the information that may be accessed through the links listed on this page. 

Report on national General Good rules

In July 2019 EIOPA published a report analysing national General Good rules in the context of the proper functioning of the IDD and the internal market. The report provides both a factual description of the types of rules which are published on the websites of the competent authorities and are applicable to insurance distribution activities, and a general assessment, facilitating the checking of main areas of divergence and impact of the general good provisions on the proper functioning of the IDD and the internal market more broadly.

The report concluded that some NCAs have published general good rules on registration and organisational requirements, which allow those NCAs as host Member States to impose additional requirements on passporting insurance distributors whereas, under the IDD, those rules are under the competence of the competent authority of the home Member State only.

Following the publication of the report, EIOPA carried out an analysis of all published general good rules on registration and professional and organisational requirements that could potentially be non-compliant with the IDD. As a result, several NCAs have adjusted their webpages and documents with information on general good rules. Further information on the adjustments made to general good rules in different Member States is available here.

EIOPA will continue to assess further cases and will report back on these in the future, where appropriate.

National ‘General Good’ rules categorised into different relevant areas of law