2007/482/EC: Commission Decision of 9 July 2007 on the application of Council Directive 72/166/EEC with regard to checks on insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles (notified under document number C(2007) 3291)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-07-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, European Economic Area, Romania, insurance company, inter-company agreement, motor vehicle insurance, third-party insurance

L 180/42

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

10.7.2007

COMMISSION DECISION

of 9 July 2007

on the application of Council Directive 72/166/EEC with regard to checks on insurance against civil
liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles

(notified under document number C(2007) 3291)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/482/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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 against such liability (1), and in particular Article 2(2)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

is

associate

and
attached

On 30 May 2002 a multilateral agreement, hereinafter
‘the Agreement’, was concluded between the national
insurers’ bureaux of the Member States of the European
Economic Area
States. The
other
Agreement
to Commission Decision
2003/564/EC of 28 July 2003 on the appli cation of
Council Directive 72/166/EEC relating to checks on
insurance against civil
liability in respect of the use of
motor vehicles (2) by which the Commission fixed the
date from which Member States would refrain from
making checks on insurance against civil
liability in
respect of vehicles which are normally based in the
territory of one of
the States having signed the
Agreement and which are subject to Agreement. The
Agreement has subsequently been extended to further
countries by the adoption of Addendums No 1 and 2.

On 8 March 2007 the national insurers’ bureaux of the
Member States and those of Andorra, Croatia, Iceland,
Norway and Switzerland, signed Addendum No 3 to
the Agreement by which the Agreement was extended
to include the national insurers’ bureau of Bulgaria and
Romania. The Addendum provides
the practical
arrangements to abolish insurance checks in respect of

for

vehicles normally based in the territory of Bulgaria and
Romania and which are subject to the Addendum.

(3)

Therefore all the conditions for the removal of checks on
motor insurance against civil liability in accordance with
Directive 72/166/EEC in respect of vehicles normally
based in the territory of Bulgaria and Romania are
fulfilled,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

As from 1 August 2007, Member States shall refrain from
making checks on insurance against civil liability in respect of
vehicles which are normally based in the territory of Bulgaria
and Romania and which are subject to Addendum No 3 of 8
March 2007 to the Multilateral Agreement between the national
insurers’ bureaux of
the European
Economic Area and other associate States.

the Member States of

Article 2

Member States shall
measures taken to apply this Decision.

forthwith inform the Commission of

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 9 July 2007.

For the Commission

Charlie McCREEVY
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 103, 2.5.1972, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive
the Council

the European Parliament and of

2005/14/EC of
(OJ L 149, 11.6.2005, p. 14).

(2) OJ L 192, 31.7.2003, p. 23.