ICOBS 6.-1 Producing and providing product information
Responsibilities for producing and providing information as between insurers and insurance intermediaries: general
1An insurer is responsible for producing, and an insurance intermediary for providing to a customer, the information required by this chapter and by the distance communication rules (see ICOBS 3.1). However, an insurer is responsible for providing information required on mid-term changes, and an insurance intermediary is responsible for producing price information if it agrees this with an insurer.
1If there is no insurance intermediary, the insurer is responsible for producing and providing the information.
1An insurer must produce information in good time to enable the insurance intermediary to comply with the rules in this chapter, or promptly on an insurance intermediary's request.
1These general rules on the responsibilities of insurers and insurance intermediaries are modified by ICOBS 6 Annex 1 if one of the firms is not based in the United Kingdom, and in certain other situations.
Responsibility for producing the standardised insurance product information document
1The IPID must be drawn up by the manufacturer of the policy.
[Note: article 20(6) of the IDD]