EFTA BUSINESS INQUIRY

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE SURVEILLANCE Authority of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) has launched its own competition inquiry into business insurance services, in parallel with the investigation launched earlier this month by the European Commission. The EFTA probe will examine whether there are competition problems requiring immediate legal action or long-term reforms within the business insurance sectors of its member states Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The surveillance authority said it wanted to gain "an understanding of how the sector ...


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