CELEX: 62018CA0100
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-100/18: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 June 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Línea Directa Aseguradora, SA v Segurcaixa, Sociedad Anónima de Seguros y Reaseguros (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles — Directive 2009/103/EC — Article 3, first paragraph — Concept of ‘use of vehicles’ — Damage to property as a result of a fire in a vehicle parked in the private garage of the property — Compulsory insurance cover)

12.8.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 270/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 20 June 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Línea Directa Aseguradora, SA v Segurcaixa, Sociedad Anónima de Seguros y Reaseguros
      (Case C-100/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles - Directive 2009/103/EC - Article 3, first paragraph - Concept of ‘use of vehicles’ - Damage to property as a result of a fire in a vehicle parked in the private garage of the property - Compulsory insurance cover)
      (2019/C 270/12)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunal Supremo
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Línea Directa Aseguradora, SA
      
         Defendant: Segurcaixa, Sociedad Anónima de Seguros y Reaseguros
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 3 of Directive 2009/103/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles, and the enforcement of the obligation to insure against such liability, must be interpreted as meaning that a situation such as that at issue in the main proceedings, in which a vehicle parked in a private garage of a building, used in accordance with its function as a means of transport, has caught fire, giving rise to a fire which originated in the electrical circuit of that vehicle and caused damage to that building, even though that vehicle has not been moved for more than 24 hours before the fire occurred, falls within the concept of ‘use of vehicles’ referred to in that provision.
      
         (1)  OJ C 161, 7.5.2018.