ABI: Age and disability pricing will not go same way as gender

Nick Kirwan, assistant director of protection, said the body was working hard to ensure wording around age and disability in the current directive draft was not open to the same legal conflict the Gender Directive suffered. He said: "In hindsight there were many flaws in the wording of the gender directive. For example, clause one and two conflicted and left it open for Belgian consumer body Test Achats to challenge it. "The UK has its own equality act but European law trumps it. We have been strongly involved from the outset of this equal treatment directive drafting to ensure the wo...