2001/160/EC: Commission Decision of 15 February 2001 on the application of Council Directive 72/166/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles and to the enforcement of the obligation to insure against such liability in relation to Cyprus (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2001) 371)
Date: 2001-02-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Cyprus, approximation of laws, motor vehicle, third-party insurance

L 57/56

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

27.2.2001

COMMISSION DECISION

of 15 February 2001

on the application of Council Directive 72/166/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the
Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles
and to the enforcement of the obligation to insure against such liability in relation to Cyprus

(notified under document number C(2001) 371)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2001/160/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/166/EEC of 24 April
1972 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States
relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use
of motor vehicles and to the enforcement of the obligation to
insure againsts such liability (1), as last amended by Directive
90/232/EEC (2) and in particular Articles 2(2) and 7(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The present relationships between the national insurers'
bureaux of the Member States, Norway, Switzerland,
Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Iceland, Slovenia
and Croatia as defined in Article 1(3) of Directive 72/
166/EEC (‘bureaux’), which collectively provide for the
practical means to abolish insurance inspection in the
case of vehicles normally based in the territories of those
countries, are governed by agreements supplementary to
the Uniform Agreement on the Green Card System
between national insurers' bureaux of 2 September 1951
(‘Supplementary Agreements’).

adopted Decisions
The Commission subsequently
relating to the application of Directive 72/166/EEC
requiring each Member State to refrain from making
checks on insurance against civil liability in respect of
vehicles which are normally based in the European terri-
tory of another Member State or in the territories of the
non-member countries concerned and which are the
subject of the supplementary agreements.

The bureaux have reviewed and unified the texts of the
supplementary agreements and replaced them by a
single agreement
(‘the Multilateral Guarantee Agree-
ment’) which was concluded on 15 March 1991 in
accordance with the principles laid down in Article 2(2)
of Directive 72/166/EEC.

The Commission subsequently adopted Decision 91/
323/EEC (3) annulling the supplementary agreements
requiring Member States to refrain from making checks
on insurance against civil liability on vehicles which are
normally based in the European territory of another
Member State or in the territories of the non-member
countries
supplemantary
agreements by the Multilateral Guarantee Agreement as
from 1 June 1991.

concerned replacing those

(5)

Cyprus signed the Multilateral Guarantee Agreement on
9 September 1999,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

As from 1 January 2001, each Member State shall refrain from
making checks on insurance against civil liabiltiy in respect of
vehicles which are normally based in the territory of Cyprus
and which are the subject of the Multilateral Guarantee Agree-
ment between national insurers bureaux of 15 March 1991.

Article 2

Member States shall
measures taken to apply this Decision.

forthwith inform the Commission of

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 15 February 2001.

For the Commission

Frederik BOLKESTEIN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 103, 2.5.1972, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 129, 19.5.1990, p. 35.

(3) OJ L 177, 5.7.1991, p. 25.