CELEX: 62013CA0162
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-162/13: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 4 September 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vrhovno sodišče Republike Slovenije — Slovenia) — Damijan Vnuk v Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d. (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 caused in the courtyard of a farm by a tractor to which a trailer was attached)

10.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 395/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 4 September 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vrhovno sodišče Republike Slovenije — Slovenia) — Damijan Vnuk v Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d.
      (Case C-162/13) (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 caused in the courtyard of a farm by a tractor to which a trailer was attached))
      (2014/C 395/14)
      Language of the case: Slovenian
      
         Referring court
      
      Vrhovno sodišče Republike Slovenije
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Damijan Vnuk
      
         Defendant: Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d.
      
         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 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’ in that article covers any use of a vehicle that is consistent with the normal function of that vehicle. That concept may therefore cover the manoeuvre of a tractor in the courtyard of a farm in order to bring the trailer attached to that tractor into a barn, as in the case in the main proceedings, which is a matter for the referring court to determine.
      
         (1)  OJ C 156, 1.6.2013.