25. Sees benefits in an OI containing specific provisions for the most frequent types of contract, in particular for the sale of goods and provision of services; reiterates its earlier call to include insurance contracts within the scope of the OI, believing that such an instrument could be particularly useful for small-scale insurance contracts; stresses that, in the field of insurance contract law, preliminary work has already been performed with the Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL), which should be integrated ...[+++] into a body of European contract law and should be revised and pursued further; however, urges caution with regards to the inclusion of financial services from any contract law instrument proposed at this stage and calls on the Commission to establish a dedicated intra-service expert group for any future preparatory work on financial services to ensure that any future instrument takes into account the possible specific characteristics of the financial services sector and any related initiatives led by other parts of the Commission, and to involve the European Parliament at an early stage;

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 62009CA0236 - EN - Case C-236/09: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 1 March 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour constitutionnelle (Belgium)) — Association Belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL, Yann van Vugt, Charles Basselier v Conseil des ministres (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Fundamental rights — Combating discrimination — Equal treatment for men and women — Access to and supply of goods and services — Insurance premiums and benefits — Actuarial factors — Sex as a factor in the assessment of insurance risks — Private life ...[+++]assurance contracts — Directive 2004/113/EC — Article 5(2) — Derogation not subject to any temporal limitation — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Articles 21 and 23 — Invalidity) // Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 1 March 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour constitutionnelle (Belgium)) — Association Belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL, Yann van Vugt, Charles Basselier v Conseil des ministres // (Case C-236/09) - ( // (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Fundamental rights - Combating discrimination - Equal treatment for men and women - Access to and supply of goods and services - Insurance premiums and benefits - Actuarial factors - Sex as a factor in the assessment of insurance risks - Private life assurance contracts - Directive 2004/113/EC - Article 5(2) - Derogation not subject to any temporal limitation - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Articles 21 and 23 - Invalidity)

Ensuring coherence in the legislative framework for financial services by, for example, harmonising core marketing and information rules and by regulating sectoral issues (banking, insurance, investment, etc.) and product-specific issues (mortgage credit, consumer credit, investment services, UCITS, life and non-life insurance, insurance intermediation, etc.): The Commission will also undertake a review of national rules relating to retail financial service contracts to ensure closer convergence and will inform the Member States on th ...[+++]e conditions in which the case-by-case derogation provided for in Article 3(4) may be applied, enabling the Member States to apply on certain conditions, their national provisions to services coming from other Member States, with a view to defending public order or protecting consumers.

Comprises transactions that are closely related to insurance and pension fund operations. Included are agents’ commissions, insurance brokering and agency services, insurance and pension consultancy services, evaluation and adjustment services, actuarial services, salvage administration services, and regulatory and monitoring services on indemnities and recovery services.

Comprises transactions that are closely related to insurance and pension fund operations. Included are agents" commissions, insurance brokering and agency services, insurance and pension consultancy services, evaluation and adjustment services, actuarial services, salvage administration services, and regulatory and monitoring services on indemnities and recovery services.

Ensuring coherence in the legislative framework for financial services by, for example, harmonising core marketing and information rules and by regulating sectoral issues (banking, insurance, investment, etc.) and product-specific issues (mortgage credit, consumer credit, investment services, UCITS, life and non-life insurance, insurance intermediation, etc.): The Commission will also undertake a review of national rules relating to retail financial service contracts to ensure closer convergence and will inform the Member States on th ...[+++]e conditions in which the case-by-case derogation provided for in Article 3(4) may be applied, enabling the Member States to apply on certain conditions, their national provisions to services coming from other Member States, with a view to defending public order or protecting consumers.