Principles of Agricultural Insurance Pool legislatively defined: the priority of
interests of agricultural producers; complete transparency and publicity activities, the
fight against corruption and circuit security; standardization of activities (insurance,
reinsurance, underwriting only by the standard unitary products).
Currently, such general agrciltural insurance products are approved in Ukraine:
winter wheat for the period of hibernation; winter wheat and rye for the entire growing
season; spring wheat and barley for the entire growing season; sunflower; sugar beet;
winter crops for spring and summer seasons; corn for grain; soybeans.
The advantages of general insurance products are defined by us:
- typical (with unambiguous interpretation) terms of the insurance contract,
without possibility of changing any of the parties, which protects the interests of both
the insurer and the insured;
- giving policyholders the right to choose the conditions of insurance (for a certain
period or for the whole cycle of production) and the level of possible insurance
indemnity;
- the possibility of obtaining compensation even in the case of loss of crops only
in part of the sawn area.
The introduction of uniform general products guarantees real insurance protection
for agricultural producers, which results in a higher rate of insurance tariff and
objectively increases the need for establishing stable state support to ensure their
availability.
It should be noted that in order to increase insurance coverage, mandatory
licensing of insurance companies was introduced and the right to provide state-
sponsored insurance services assigned only to companies belonging to the Agricultural
Insurance Pool.
The reduction of franchise by insurance contracts from 50% to 30% in 2015 is
aimed at increasing the level of insurance coverage. The primary tasks to be solved are:
raising the requirements for the level of capitalization of insurance companies (up to
10 million USD); creation of information database on agricultural insurance; securing
possibility of risk reinsurance; state guarantee of payments for catastrophic risks.
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