The EU internal market for occupational pensions: Making further progress

Elemér Terták1
1Directorate-General Internal Market and Services, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

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The Lamfalussy approach makes a distinction between three levels of regulation: level 1 contains the high-level principles, level 2 defines the implementing measures and level 3 consists of non-binding supervisory guidance. A recent example of EU legislation at level 1 is the Solvency II Directive for insurance undertakings.

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The Budapest Protocol relates to the collaboration of the relevant competent authorities of the Member States of the EU in particular in the application of the IORP Directive 2003/41/EC.

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The Feedback Statement for the consultation published in March 2009 and the summary of the Public Hearing published in June 2009 are available on http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2008/occupational_retirement_provision_en.htm .

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