CELEX: 51972PC1674
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Date: 1972-12-22
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Council Directive 72/166 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 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                     COM(72)1674 final
                                                     Brussels , 22 December 1972
                                   Proposal for a
                                   COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
                    amending Council Directive 72/166 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
                   ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
  00*?(Y2 ; x6/4 final
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            COMMISSION MEMORANDUM TO THE COUNCIL CONCERNING TECHNICAL
            ADAPTATIONS TO COMMUNITY ACTS ADOPTED DURING THE INTERIM
            PERIOD
     The Commission herewith presente to the Council a proposal for
adapting a Counoil Direotive to the situation of the enlarged Community
( see Annex).
2.   As the Act in question is one adopted "by the Council during the interim
period , the Commission is of the view that the adaptations should to made
under the procedure provided for in Article 153 of the Act of Accession#
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                   PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING COUNCIL
                   DIRECTIVE 72/166 OP 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 EHFORECEMENT OF THE OBLIGATION TO
                   INSURE AGAINST SUCH LIABILITY
THE COUNCIL OF TEE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES .
                                                         (
Having regard to "the Treaty oonceming the accession of the new Member States
to the European Eoonomic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community,
signed on 22 January 1972 , and in particular Article 153 of the Act annexed
thereto ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission }
Whereas , as a result of enlargement , the number of national 'bureaux taken
into consideration in Council Directive 72/166^ of 24 April 1972 on the
approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against
civil liability in the respect of the use of motor vehicles , and to the
enforecement of the obligation to insure against such liability, increases
from six to nine ; whereas this Directive consequently requires adaptation }
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :
                                      Article 1
Council Directive 72/ 1 66 is amended as follows :
– the following is substituted for Article 2(2 ), first indent *
   "after an agreement has "been concluded between the national insurers'
    bureaux under the terms of which eaoh national bureau guarantees the
    settlement , in accordance with the provisions of its own national law
    on compulsory insurance , of olaims in respect of accidents occurring
    in its territory caused by vehicles normally based in the territory
    of another Member State , whether or not such vehicles are insured;".
                                      Article 2
This Directive shall enter into foroe with effeot from the accession of the
new Member States to the European Communities .
^1 '0J No L 103* 2 May 1972, p. 1 ,
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This Directive is addressed to the Member States .
Done at Brussels .              19– •
                                                For the Counoil
                                                The President