24Concerning the aims of those directives, it should be noted that recital 23 in the preamble to the third life assurance directive stated that ‘in a single assurance market the consumer [would] have a wider and more varied choice of contracts’. Also according to that recital, ‘if he [was] to profit fully from this diversity and from increased competition, he [had to] be provided with whatever information is necessary to enable him to choose the contract best suited to his needs’ (Case C-386/00 Axa Royale Belge [2002] ECR I-2209, paragraph 28). Finally, it was stated in that recital that ‘this information requirement [was] all the more important as the duration of commitments [could] be very long’.
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