30.3.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 83/1 (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 267/2010 of 24 March 2010 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to certain categories of agreements, decisions and concerted practices in the insurance sector (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1534/91 of 31 May 1991 on the application of Article 85(3) of the Treaty to certain categories of agreements, decisions and concerted practices in the insurance sector ('), and in particular Article 1(1)(), (b), (c) and (e) thereof, Having published a draft of this Regulation, After consulting the Advisory Committee on Restrictive Practices and Dominant Positions, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EEC) No 1534/91 empowers the Commission to apply Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (?) by regulation to certain categories of agreements, decisions and concerted practices in the insurance sector which have as their object cooperation with respect to: — the establishment of common risk premium tariffs based on collectively ascertained statistics or the number of claims, — the establishment of common standard policy conditions, () OJ L 143, 7.6.1991, p. 1. (3) With effect from 1 December 2009, Article 81 of the EC Treaty has become Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The two articles are, in substance, identical. For the purposes of this Regulation, references to Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be understood as references to Article 81 of the EC Treaty where appropriate. — the common coverage of certain types of risks, — the settlement of claims, — the testing and acceptance of security devices, — registers of, and information on, aggravated risks. (2)  Pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1534/91, the Commission adopted Regulation (EC) No 358/2003 of 27 February 2003 on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to certain categories of agreements, decisions and concerted practices in the insurance sector (?). Regu- lation (EC) No 358/2003 expires on 31 March 2010. (3)  Regulation (EC) No 358/2003 does not grant an exemption to agreements concerning the settlement of claims and registers of, and information on, aggravated risks. The Commission considered that it lacked sufficient experience in handling individual cases to make use of the power conferred by Regulation (EEC) No 1534/91 in those fields. That situation has not changed. Furthermore, although Regulation (EC) No 358/2003 granted an exemption for the establishment of standard policy conditions and the testing and acceptance of security devices, this Regulation should not do so since the Commission’s review of the functioning of Regulation (EC) No 358/2003 revealed that it was no longer necessary to include such agreements in a sector specific block exemption regulation. In the context where those two categories of agreements are not specific to the insurance sector and, as the review showed, can also give rise to certain competition concerns, it is more appropriate that they be subject to self-assessment. () O] L 53, 28.2.2003, p. 8.