19/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - As recommended by its rapporteur, British Conservative Lord Inglewood, the Parliament approved the proposed amendment to the directive on direct life insurance. As work for clarifying and simplifying the new text had showed that it was necessary to go beyond codification, the Commission proposes, and the Parliament accepts, true recasting. In this context, the Commission presents six changes that bear mainly on the clarification of certain legal situations and the deletion of names of companies that have stopped operating. In plenary, Commissioner Bolkestein announced his intention to present a parallel proposal to the Commission on recasting the life insurance directive.