The guaranteeing association shall have a period of three months, from the date when a claim for payment is made upon it, in which to pay the amounts claimed.

The guaranteeing association shall undertake to pay the import or export duties and taxes, together with any default interest, due under the customs laws and regulations of the country in which an irregularity has been noted in connection with a TIR operation.

Association d'assurance contre les accidents, section industrielle (Accident Insurance Association, Industrial Section), Luxembourg

1. is a member of the Slovenian Insurance Association;

ACME (Association of European Cooperative and Mutual Insurers)

(5) Notwithstanding the provision of the first paragraph hereunder, the Member State insurance undertaking may start to perform compulsory insurance in transport when it submits to the Insurance Supervision Agency a document, to be issued by the Slovene Insurance Association, stating that the Member State insurance undertaking in question:

This Directive shall apply to the association of underwriters known as Lloyd's. For the purpose of this Directive both Lloyd's and Lloyd's syndicates shall be deemed to be insurance undertakings.

"Standard policy conditions" refers to any clauses contained in model or reference insurance policies prepared jointly by insurers or by bodies or associations of insurers;

In the case of non-profit institutions operating as business associations for insurance enterprises and pension funds, their output is valued by the amounts of subscriptions paid by the members of the associations.

The licence for branch offices of foreign insurers has to be denied if the insurer, in the home country, does not have a legal form corresponding or comparable to a joint stock company or a mutual insurance association.

The exemption provided for in Article 1(d) shall not benefit undertakings or associations of undertakings which concert or undertake among themselves, or oblige other undertakings, not to apply models illustrating the benefits of an insurance policy other than those established pursuant to an agreement between the participating undertakings.

They might also include membership of the association of insurers responsible for producing the calculations, as long as access to such membership is itself available on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms to insurance undertakings not yet active on the market in question.

The exemption provided for in Article 1(c) shall not benefit undertakings or associations of undertakings which agree, or agree to oblige other undertakings, not to apply conditions other than standard policy conditions established pursuant to an agreement between the participating undertakings.

(10) Collaboration between insurance undertakings or within associations of undertakings in the calculation of the average cost of covering a specified risk in the past or, for life insurance, tables of mortality rates or of the frequency of illness, accident and invalidity, makes it possible to improve the knowledge of risks and facilitates the rating of risks for individual companies.

(24) The adoption by an association or associations of insurance or reinsurance undertakings of technical specifications, rules or codes of practice concerning safety devices, and of procedures for evaluating the compliance of safety devices with those technical specifications, rules or codes of practice, can be beneficial in providing a benchmark to insurers and reinsurers when assessing the extent of the risk they are asked to cover in a specific case, which depends on the quality of security equipment and of its installation and maintenance.

Slovenia, for the Slovensko Zavarovalno Zdruenje, GIZ:

the term "guaranteeing association" shall mean an association approved by the customs authorities of a Contracting Party to act as surety for persons using the TIR procedure.

The sums paid shall be reimbursed to the association if, within the two years following the date on which the claim for payment was made, it has been established to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that no irregularity was committed in connection with the transport operation in question.

ISSUE OF TIR CARNETS Liability of guaranteeing associations

In deciding whether or not to release the goods or vehicle, customs authorities should not, when they have other means in law of protecting the interests for which they are responsible, be influenced by the fact that the guaranteeing association is liable for the payment of duties, taxes and default interest payable by the holder of the carnet.

The claim for payment of the sums referred to in Article 8 (1) and (2) shall be made to the guaranteeing association at the earliest three months after the date on which the association was informed that the carnet had not been discharged or had been discharged conditionally or that the certificate of discharge had been obtained in an improper or fraudulent manner and at the latest not more than two years after that date.

In cases where the laws and regulations of a Contracting Party do not provide for payment of import or export duties and taxes as provided for in paragraph 1 above, the guaranteeing association shall undertake to pay, under the same conditions, a sum equal to the amount of the import or export duties and taxes and any default interest.

and endorsed and guaranteed by an association forming part of an international guarantee chain.

This Directive shall apply to the association of underwriters known as Lloyd's.

Each Contracting Party shall provide the guaranteeing associations concerned with facilities for:

In these exceptional cases the Contracting Parties shall nevertheless accept the TIR carnet and the liability of the guaranteeing associations shall remain in force.

The liability of the guaranteeing association to the authorities of the country where the customs office of departure is situated shall commence at the time when the TIR carnet is accepted by the customs office.

the transfer of currency for payment for TIR carnet forms sent to the guaranteeing association by the corresponding foreign associations or by the international organizations.

In particular, in the case of tied insurance intermediaries, they may be registered by an insurance undertaking or by an association of insurance undertakings under the supervision of a competent authority.

the ATA carnet shall be issued in a Member State of the Community and endorsed and guaranteed by an association established in the Community forming part of an international guarantee chain.

AWARE of the difficulties faced by the international guaranteeing chain in providing adequate guarantees for high-risk goods from a customs point of view,

The validity of TIR carnets accepted by the customs office of departure before the date when the denunciation takes effect shall not be effected thereby and the guarantee of the guaranteeing association shall hold good in accordance with the provisions of this Convention.

REQUESTS the International Road Transport Union (IRU), national guaranteeing associations and customs authorities to take all necessary steps in order to provide for the introduction of the 'TOBACCO/ALCOHOL' TIR carnet, as of 1 September 1993,

Member States shall ensure that procedures are set up which allow customers and other interested parties, especially consumer associations, to register complaints about insurance and reinsurance intermediaries.

When payment of sums mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article becomes due, the competent authorities shall so far as possible require payment from the person or persons directly liable before making a claim against the guaranteeing association.

The liability of the guaranteeing association shall cover not only the goods enumerated in the TIR carnet, but also any goods which, though not enumerated in the carnet, are on the load platform or among the goods enumerated in the TIR carnet.

In the case of transport of alcohol and tobacco, details of which are given below, customs authorities are recommended to increase the maximum amount which may be claimed from the guaranteeing associations to a sum equal to US $ 200 000:

When the customs authorities of a country have discharged a TIR carnet unconditionally they can no longer claim from the guaranteeing association payment of the sums mentioned in Article 8 (1) and (2) unless the certificate of discharge was obtained in an improper or fraudulent manner.

This exclusion shall be notified immediately to the customs authorities of the Contracting Party on whose territory the person concerned is established or resident, and also to the guaranteeing association(s) in the country where the offence has been committed.

TIR carnet forms sent to the guaranteeing associations by the corresponding foreign associations or by international organizations shall not be liable to import and export duties and taxes and shall be free of import and export prohibitions and restrictions.

whereas that period must be extended to allow the necessary adjustments to be made concerning, on the one hand, the association of underwriters known as Lloyd's and, on the other, those undertakings which, when this Directive becomes applicable, show their investments at historical cost;

Without prejudice to the application of Regulation No 17, the Commission may, by means of a Regulation and in accordance with Article 85 (3) of the Treaty, declare that Article 85 (1) shall not apply to categories of agreements between undertakings, decisions of associations of undertakings and concerted practices in the insurance sector which have as their object cooperation with respect to:

Convinced that the TIR transit system can only be safeguarded through joint and concerted action by all parties of the TIR transit system (customs authorities, national guaranteeing and carnet issuing associations and the IRU, and insurance companies), whereby an open exchange of information on all aspects of the system is considered to be essential;

Where a TIR carnet has not been discharged or has been discharged conditionally, the competent authorities shall not have the right to claim payment of the sums mentioned in Article 8 (1) and (2) from the guaranteeing association unless, within a period of one year from the date of acceptance of the TIR carnet by those authorities, they have notified the association in writing of the non-discharge or conditional discharge.

In the case of the association of underwriters know as Lloyd's, asset categories shall also include guarantees and letters of credit issued by credit institutions within the meaning of Directive 77/780/EEC(12) or by assurance undertakings, together with verifiable sums arising out of life assurance policies, to the extent that they represent funds belonging to members.

In the case of the association of underwriters known as "Lloyd's", asset categories shall also include guarantees and letters of credit issued by credit institutions within the meaning of Directive 2000/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(17) or by assurance undertakings, together with verifiable sums arising out of life assurance policies, to the extent that they represent funds belonging to members.

Collaboration between insurance undertakings or within associations of undertakings in the calculation of the average cost of covering a specified risk in the past or, for life insurance, tables of mortality rates or of the frequency of illness, accident and invalidity, makes it possible to improve the knowledge of risks and facilitates the rating of risks for individual companies.

Whereas, where associations created by a Member State's pension funds to permit the management of their assets confine themselves to such management and do not provide investment services for third parties, and where the pension funds are themselves subject to the control of the authorities charged with monitoring insurance undertakings, it does not appear to be necessary to subject such associations to the conditions for taking up business and for operation imposed by this Directive;

Self-employed persons as referred to in Article 10 (2) (c) of the Consolidated Text of the General Law on Social Security (Royal Legislative Decree No 1/1994 of 20 June 1994) and in Article 3 of Decree No 2530/1970 of 20 August 1970 regulating the special scheme for self-employed persons who join a professional association and decide to become members of the mutual insurance society set up by the said association instead of joining the special social security scheme for self-employed persons.`;

The adoption by an association or associations of insurance or reinsurance undertakings of technical specifications, rules or codes of practice concerning safety devices, and of procedures for evaluating the compliance of safety devices with those technical specifications, rules or codes of practice, can be beneficial in providing a benchmark to insurers and reinsurers when assessing the extent of the risk they are asked to cover in a specific case, which depends on the quality of security equipment and of its installation and maintenance.