Are there passporting rights between the UK and Gibraltar?
Gibraltar is not a separate EEA state but a territory for which the UK is responsible for the purpose of single market directives. So the single market directives (including the IMD) apply to it. Passporting rights apply only between EEA states, so directive passporting rights do not apply. However, the UK and Gibraltar have special arrangements under the Gibraltar Order, which allows rights equivalent to directive rights. The Order applies to insurers and insurance intermediaries, so Gibraltar intermediaries can ‘passport’ into the UK. UK intermediaries can also ‘passport’ into Gibraltar.
