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Kingreen, T.Compatibility of compulsory insurance against natural hazards to residential buildings with European Union law and German constitutional law

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Author:
Thorsten Kingreen

Release date:
February 2022

Publication:
German Council of Consumer Experts (SVRV) at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Berlin

The legal opinion was prepared by Prof. Thorsten Kingreen (University of Regensburg) on behalf of the SVRV. It deals with the compatibility of a compulsory insurance against natural hazard damage to residential buildings, as envisaged by the reform model of the SVRV, with European Union and German constitutional law. The report comes to the conclusion that such an insurance obligation is constitutional.

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