Brussels, 17/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 17 April, the European Commission launched a public consultation exercise on the functioning of the Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (BER). The BER exempts from the ban on restrictive business practices (Article 81 of the EC Treaty) certain co-operation agreements between insurance companies, including the establishment of non-binding standard policy conditions, the exchange of statistical information for the calculation of risks and the...