(5)This Directive therefore represents an important step in the merging of national markets into an integrated market and that stage must be supplemented by other Community instruments with a view to enabling all policy holders to have recourse to any assurer with a head office in the Community who carries on business there, under the right of establishment or the freedom to provide services, while guaranteeing them adequate protection.
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New version applies from 13/04/2005 — introduced by Directive 2005/1/EC.
68 provisions change.
Later versions: 10/12/2005, 01/01/2007, 21/09/2007, 20/03/2008, 01/07/2013, 01/01/2016.
Recital 5 changes in this version: compare with the current text.