During the Moscow Motor Show held in August 2010, PAIRP, the Russian Anti-theft organisation announced that they would be introducing a new insurance criteria for assessing vehicle security in Russia.
The criteria will assess four different areas:
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Protection against Theft From the vehicle
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Protection against Theft Of the vehicle
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Vehicle and Component Identification
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Stolen Vehicle Tracking and Immobilisation
Mr Igor Yamov, President of PAIRP outlined the associations reasoning behind introducing a new insurance security critieria and explained how it would be presented to the public. Each vehicle will be assessed in the areas described above and awarded points depending on it’s performance against the criteria with a maximum of 1000 points available for the most secure vehicles. The total number of points will then relate to a ‘shield’ rating.
Currently, there are no details of how the vehicle security criteria would be applied by Russian Insurance companies and the detailed requirements of the criteria have not been announced. SBD will continue to monitor the situation over the coming months and will release information here on our website as it becomes available.
The criteria is a result of several years of research into the security level of Russian specification vehicles, results and discussions with insurers and anti-theft associations in other countries. At one stage it had looked like PAIRP would follow the Swedish insurance association, TFF, in adopting the Thatcham NVSA requirements from the UK. However, during the press conference Mr Yamov, implied that the Thatcham criteria wasn’t strict enough to cater for the Russian market so they are developing their own.
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