Examination of Witnesses (Question Numbers
358-359)
Ms Maggie Craig, Mr Harold Gay and Ms Linda Jackson
21 MAY 2009
Q358 Chairman:
Good morning. Perhaps you would like to state your names for the
record.
Ms Craig: My name is Maggie Craig. I am the
Director of Consumer Strategy at the Association of British Insurers.
Mr Gay: My name is Harold Gay. I am the Trading
Law Manager for Alliance Boots, but I appear here today as the
Chairman of the CBI Consumer Affairs Panel.
Ms Jackson: My name is Linda Jackson. I am Senior
Legal Adviser at the CBI.
Q359 Chairman: I realise you are from
different organisations. Would anybody like to make an opening
statement?
Ms Craig: I would like to make one very brief
point. We welcome the initiative. We believe it is primarily a
goods Directive, so we are comfortable that the scope does rightly
exclude financial services and insurance to a large extent. We
have a couple of concerns, particularly on the prohibition on
inertia selling. I would really like to pick those up later when
they arise at appropriate moments in the questions, but I just
wanted to flag that at the beginning.
Mr Gay: My Lord Chairman, I would just like
to say thank you for allowing us to come and talk to you. For
us, maximum harmonisation is the prize from this Directive and
as a balanced package it is something that we think has some benefit.
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