CELEX: 62016CA0514
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-514/16: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 28 November 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal da Relação de Guimarães — Portugal) — Isabel Maria Pinheiro Vieira Rodrigues de Andrade, Fausto da Silva Rodrigues de Andrade v José Manuel Proença Salvador, Crédito Agrícola Seguros — Companhia de Seguros de Ramos Reais, SA, Jorge Oliveira Pinto (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Compulsory insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles — Directive 72/166/EEC — Article 3(1) — Concept of ‘use of vehicles’ — Accident on a farm — Accident involving an agricultural tractor that was stationary but with the engine running in order to drive a spray pump for applying herbicide)

29.1.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 28 November 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal da Relação de Guimarães — Portugal) — Isabel Maria Pinheiro Vieira Rodrigues de Andrade, Fausto da Silva Rodrigues de Andrade v José Manuel Proença Salvador, Crédito Agrícola Seguros — Companhia de Seguros de Ramos Reais, SA, Jorge Oliveira Pinto
   (Case C-514/16) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Compulsory insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles - Directive 72/166/EEC - Article 3(1) - Concept of ‘use of vehicles’ - Accident on a farm - Accident involving an agricultural tractor that was stationary but with the engine running in order to drive a spray pump for applying herbicide))
   (2018/C 032/04)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Referring court
   
   Tribunal da Relação de Guimarães
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Isabel Maria Pinheiro Vieira Rodrigues de Andrade, Fausto da Silva Rodrigues de Andrade
   
      Defendants: José Manuel Proença Salvador, Crédito Agrícola Seguros — Companhia de Seguros de Ramos Reais, SA, Jorge Oliveira Pinto
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 3(1) of 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, must be interpreted as meaning that the concept of ‘use of vehicles’, referred to in that provision, does not cover a situation in which an agricultural tractor has been involved in an accident when its principal function, at the time of that accident, was not to serve as a means of transport but to generate, as a machine for carrying out work, the motive power necessary to drive the pump of a herbicide sprayer.
   
      (1)  OJ C 475, 19.12.2016.