Risk Alert, Year 2000 Considerations

Our committee decided very early on that the industry was faced with a unique opportunity to develop a risk assessment tool that could be used by both brokers and underwriters to identify year 2000 exposures and to educate policyholders.

Mr. Alex Kennedy: The questionnaire is designed to obtain as much information as possible about the nature of the risk so the underwriter and the broker can assess whether the applicant for insurance, or the insured in the case of a renewal, has taken steps within his control to do what should be done with the year 2000 problem.

Welcomes the initiatives of the Turkish government such as the Social Risk Mitigation Project (conditional cash transfer), which involves paying families in need a sum of money for each child attending primary school; notes that the amount given to families for girls is higher than that given to boys, and that this amount is handed to the mothers; welcomes the fact that in this way the issues of schooling of girls and empowerment of women within the family structure are addressed simultaneously; notes, however, that dropping out of ...[+++] school is still a concern, especially among seasonal workers' families and Roma children, and calls on the Turkish government to support and make full use of the early warning system for children at risk of dropping out, and to eliminate regional disparities in primary and secondary education;

Commission Decision 2009/547/EC of 10 July 2009 amending Decision 2000/57/EC on the early warning and response system for the prevention and control of communicable diseases under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (6) introduced specific safeguards for the exchange of personal data between Member States in the course of contact tracing procedures for the identification of infected persons and of persons potentially in danger, in the occurrence of an event related to communicable diseases having a potential EU dimension.