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       AI            Artificial Intelligence
       AML/CFT       Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism
       AMLD          Anti-Money Laundering Directive
       BDA           Big Data Analytics
 Cyber Risk and its Insurance  services for two years now.  The services delegation met   CCD      Consumer Credit Directive
 several Ambassadors and commercial counsellors of   CEN      European Committee for Standardisation
 During  the  last  two  years,  the  IPPC  examined  the  role   WTO members and discussed the state of play of these   CMU      Capital Markets Union
 of  insurance  in  managing  cyber  risk.  The  Committee   talks and of their support for these initiatives. WFII seized   CRD / CRR   Capital Requirements Directive/Capital Requirements Regulation
 organised a conference on this issue and published a set of   the  opportunity  offered  by  these  bilateral  meetings,   Directive   "A Directive is a legislative act that sets out a goal that all EU countries must achieve. However, it is up to the
 recommendations that different stakeholders (businesses,   to  bring  its  perspective  regarding  liberalisation  of  the         individual countries to devise their own laws on how to reach these goals." (europa.eu)
 intermediaries, (re)insurance companies and governments)   insurance mediation sector and the issue of multinational   DMD      Distance Marketing of Financial Services Directive
 could implement to address the challenges to the cyber   placements to the attention of the WTO Ambassadors and   EBA      European Banking Authority
 risk insurance market’s development. WFII contributed to   their teams.    EDPB      European Data Protection Board
 this OECD report and participated in the conference as a   EDPS      European Data Protection Supervisor
 panellist. As a next step in this project, the IPPC studied   EU-US Insurance Project   EEA       European Economic Area
 the differences in policy and regulatory requirements that   eIDAS     electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services
 affect the scope or form of cyber insurance coverage.   The EU-US Insurance Project started in early 2012,   EIOPA     European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority
 At the December 2019 meeting the initial report was   when the European Commission, EIOPA, NAIC (National   ELD      Environmental Liability Directive
 presented in two separate reports, one on claims data   Association of Insurance Commissioners) and the FIO   ENISA     European Agency for Network and Information Security
 sharing, the other on insurance coverage issues.   (Federal  Insurance  Office  of  the  US  Department  of  the   ESAs      European Supervisory Authorities
 Treasury) agreed to participate in a deeper dialogue project   ESCO      European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
 The  institutional  structure  of  insurance  regulation  and   to contribute to an increased mutual understanding and   ESFS      European System of Financial Supervision
 supervision   enhanced cooperation between the EU and US to promote   ESG factors   Environmental, social and governance factors
 business opportunity, consumer protection and effective   ESMA      European Securities and Markets Authority
 In  2018  the  IPPC  published  a  Report  on  the  institutional   supervision in the EU and US.  ESRB      European Systemic Risk Board
 structure  of  insurance  regulation  and  supervision.  Building   FATF      Financial Action Task Force
 on this work, the Committee developed policy guidance   The above-mentioned insurance regulators and supervisors   FOE / FOS   Freedom of establishment / Freedom of services
 to complement the IAIS Insurance Core Principles (ICPs) on   had the intention to continue their dialogue by organising   GDPR      General Data Protection Regulation
 the objectives, powers and responsibilities of insurance   a public event in Washington D.C. in March 2020, related   IAIS      International Association of Insurance Supervisors
 supervisors. This includes guidance on the institutional   to cyber security risks, the cyber insurance market and   IBIPs      Insurance-based investment products
 structure of insurance regulation and supervision as well   the use of Big Data. A representative of the American   ICT      Information and Communication Technology
 as issues related to the independence and accountability   insurance  intermediary  sector,  submitted  by  WFII  to  the   IDD / IMD   Insurance Distribution Directive / Insurance Mediation Directive
 and mandates and objectives of insurance regulators and   organisers, would have been one of the panellists but due   IORP      Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision
 supervisors.  WFII  commented  in  2019  on  the  draft  policy   to the COVID-19 outbreak this event was cancelled.   IPID      Insurance Product Information Document
 guidance. WFII suggested, among others, to the drafters to   IPPC      Insurance and Private Pensions Committee (OECD)
 give more attention to innovation in the sector. New concepts   The 2019 WFII Annual meeting  IRSG      Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group
 that appeared in the market could be elaborated in the   ISSDC      Insurance Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee
 guidance. WFII also suggested mentioning the consideration   Due  to  the  COVID-19  outbreak,  the  WFII  World  Council   ITS      Implementing Technical Standards
 that regulation should be based on high-level principles   Singapore 2020 meeting in person was cancelled. Instead,   KID      Key Information Document
 and should not be subject to a constant change in order to   a  WFII  General  Assembly  was  held  by  email  and  on   MCD      Mortgage Credit Directive
 guarantee stability, and to ensure that the supervisor has the   Wednesday 29 April 2020 a video conference took place   MID      Motor Insurance Directive
 time to deliver effective supervision.  which was joined by many World Council members and   MiFID / MiFIR   Markets in Financial Instruments Directive/Regulation
 the members of the ExCSE Committee. Mr. Yoshi Kawai,   OECD      Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
 Activities with the WTO   Chairman of the OECD- Insurance and Private Pensions   PEPP      Pan-European Personal Pension Products
 Committee (IPPC) also joined  this video conference. Mr   POG      Product Oversight and Governance
 Within the framework of the WTO Public Forum that took   Kawai, who would have been a speaker at the WOC 2020   PRIIPs     Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products
 place in October 2019 in Geneva, WFII joined a delegation   Singapore meeting, elaborated in his speech on the OECD   REFIT      Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme
 of the Global Service Coalition and met several key country   note Initial assessment of insurance coverage and gaps   Regulation   "A Regulation is a binding legislative act. It must be applied in its entirety across the EU." (europa.eu)
 negotiators  who  have  been  discussing  e-commerce,   for tackling COVID -19 impacts.  RTS      Regulatory Technical Standards
 investment facilitation and domestic regulation in   UCITS      Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities
       Trilogue      Step in the legislative process during which the three EU institutions (Commission, Parliament, Council) work on a
                     compromise text which reflects most of their common views
       WTO           World Trade Organization
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