Tying
Since 2007, the Commission has been looking into tying in retail financial services, including insurance services, in the EU, in order to obtain an overview of these practices, to understand how and why they are used, as well as to measure their impact on consumers and on competition.
On 15 January 2010, the European Commission published a report entitled “Tying and other potentially unfair commercial practices in the retail financial services sector” prepared by consultants and a consultation paper with specific questions on the findings of this report. Stakeholders, including BIPAR, were invited by the Commission to respond to this consultation paper. A workshop was organised by the Commission in October 2010.
BIPAR response to the European Commission’s Consultation on the study of tying and other potentially unfair commercial practices in the retail financial sector (April 2010)
