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Originally Posted by c-m
convention
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That is the magic word isn't it. It is a convention they all agreed upon. There is no requirement in law for this convention, it is a contractual agreement between FIA and the various automobile organizations. You can bet that it wasn't FIA that requested that particular clause to be added, but rather the local agencies trying to protect their respective monopolies.
In this case the only ones that have any benefit from enforcing the particular rule are the RAC, fearing to lose customers to ADAC.
If RAC would allow any request from a customer preferring the bank guarantee option to make use of ADAC's services as an "exceptional circumstance", no-one, not FIA, not ADAC nor the customer would have any objections to that. RAC has the power to do this, they prefer not to and pass the ball to FIA in stead of improving their service to their customers or allowing customers to go elsewhere.
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