The Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (IBER) grants an exemption to the application of competition rules to two categories of agreements in the insurance sector: information- and risk-sharing agreements. The latter category encompasses the common coverage of risks by co-insurance and...

The Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (IBER) grants an exemption to the application of competition rules to two categories of agreements in the insurance sector: information- and risk-sharing agreements. There are, however, difficulties in defining the relevant market and, as a consequence,...