2010-12-30
The Governor of the National Bank of Serbia issued this Decision to standardize the content of Motor Third Party Liability (MTPL) policy forms and regulate the electronic record-keeping of issued policies in Serbia. The regulation mandates a uniform six-section policy form printed by the Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins, with specific data requirements for insured parties, vehicles, and premiums, while establishing strict protocols for the electronic exchange of data between insurers, agents, and the Association of Serbian Insurers. It further defines the operational procedures for policy registration number assignment, the verification of issued policies, and the transition timeline for compliance, with full enforcement effective from April 1, 2011.
Outsourced Translation "RS Official Gazette", 32/2010 and 99/2010 Pursuant to Article 19 paragraph 2 of the Law on Compulsory Traffic Insurance ("RS Official Gazette", No. 51/2009), the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia hereby issues the following D E C I S I O N ОN THE CONTENT OF MTPL POLICY FORM AND THE MANNER OF KEEPING RECORDS OF ISSUED POLICIES
in the left corner a space is provided for entry of identification details of the insurance company - insurer (logo, business name and seat, registration number, tax identification number (PIB), current account number and telephone number), below which it reads „Organizational Unit /Company Agent " to be completed with the name of the insurer's organizational unit /name of insurer's agent /name of legal entity selling the policy which is authorized for motor vehicle inspection in accordance with the regulations on road traffic safety (hereinafter: motor vehicle inspection station);
in the middle there is a policy name „MTPL Policy" and its registration number with the first two digits printed, designating the number under which the insurer issuing the policy is filed in the Register of Data on Insurance Companies kept by the National Bank of Serbia, while other digits shall be obtained from the records of the Association of Serbian Insurers (hereinafter: Association) and written and/or printed when issuing the policy;
in the right corner there is a policy serial number designated by the Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins - Topčider (hereinafter: Institute) when printing the Policy and it may also contain the policy barcode;
below the policy serial number, registration No. of the insurer with which the previous policy was contracted shall be entered as well as the registration number of the previous policy and the premium level specified in such policy. In the space of the second section of the policy form the following shall be entered:
details of insured, as follows:
the insurer /insurer's agent /vehicle inspection station, and on the right-hand side a space is provided for place and date of policy signing, and the stamp and signature of the insured. Back of the original policy contains printed instructions for the procedure to be followed in case of a loss event, which shall read as follows: „Dear insureds, With the MTPL Policy you are covered against the liability for the loss you may cause to third parties by the use of a motor vehicle resulting in death, bodily injury, affected health or destruction of and/or damage to the objects taken for transport and intended for personal use of persons in the vehicle. In case of loss event occurrence:
the name of the first copy there shall be the text „For the Ministry of Internal Affairs". The policy original and the first copy shall be submitted to the insured when concluding the policy. The insured shall submit the first copy of the policy to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) when registering the vehicle while the second copy shall be kept by the insurer. Below the policy name, this copy shall contain the following printed text „For the Insurer ". The third copy shall be kept by the organizational unit of the insurer /insurer's agent /vehicle inspection station. Below the policy name, this copy shall contain the following printed text „For the Agent ". 5. Policy form shall be printed by the Institute. In the beginning of each calendar year, the insurance company shall submit to the Institute the annual plan for the needed policies, observing that according to such plan the request for delivery of policy forms in individual orders shall be sent maximum seven days before the requested delivery. The insurance company ordering the printing of policy forms shall bear the costs of printing and shall submit to the Institute the evidence of payment of such costs, at the latest upon the delivery of these forms. 6. Upon the delivery of policy forms to the insurance company, the Institute shall inform the Association of the serial numbers of such policies. 7. The insurance company and the Association shall keep records of policies and all policy data by applying the information systems which ensure the collection of comprehensive and accurate data in accordance with the needs and requirements of business operations, keeping and processing of such data, their timely availability to the interested users, their high reliability and protection against unauthorized access, continuity of business operations, adequate capacity and performance in accordance with the scope of activities performed in the process of keeping such records as well as a reliable connection for the data exchange with the participants in the process of such record keeping. The information systems referred to in paragraph 1 of the item hereof should support the requirements of the said paragraph and items from 8 to 12 of the Decision hereof and ensure the keeping of records of all data contained in the policy. In the process of issuing policies, the persons authorized for selling policies shall, when entering data in the policy and issuing and/or printing the policy, use such software solutions which ensure timely submission of data to the insurance company and the Association. 4
Insurance company shall verify the received data on issued /sold policies and shall submit to the Association electronically signed policies every fifteen days in the manner stipulated in item 7 of the Decision hereof. The Association shall submit to the National Bank of Serbia the list of all policies, by insurers, for which the difference between the original data from the request for the assignment of policy registration number and the data referred to in paragraph 1 of the item hereof has been identified. The insurance company and the Association shall provide in their information systems all data on made changes-modifications (name and surname of a person who has made a change to the data, exact date and time of the change) and the data on chronology i.e. sequence of such changes (value of the previous data item).
The insurance company shall keep records of issued/returned policies at all levels - applying the information system referred to in item 7 of the Decision hereof.
Upon request, the Association shall submit to the National Bank of Serbia the data of which it keeps records in accordance with the Decision hereof. 6
As of 1 April 2011, the insurance company shall keep records of the sold policies on the policy form printed in accordance with the Decision hereof. In the records referred to in paragraph 1 of the item hereof the insurance company shall include the relevant data for 2010 from the records the insurance company has kept in accordance with the regulations and by-laws of business policy applicable until the effective date of the Decision hereof.
The insurance company can issue policies on the forms printed in accordance with the regulations applicable until the effective date of the Decision hereof - up to 31 March 2011.
Exceptionally from item 5 paragraph 2 of the Decision hereof, the insurance company shall, until 1 June 2010, submit to the Institute the annual plan for the policies needed in 2011.
Until 31 March 2012, the data on the policy serial number shall be entered in the request referred to in item 10 paragraph 2 provision 5 of the Decision hereof instead of the data on the policy registration number, when such number is not available.
This Decision shall enter into force on the eighth day following the day of its publication in the "RS Official Gazette". Dec. No. 34 G o v e r n o r 12 May 2010 National Bank of Serbia B e l g r a d e Radovan Jelašić, sign. 7