page_title: International Motor Insurance Card System
section_title: Membership and geographic limits
hierarchical_section_title: International Motor Insurance Card System / Green card system / Membership and geographic limits
caption_attribution_description: English: Dark green - Green card members; light green - Green card candidates or participating trough foreign Bureau; light blue - White card members (proposed); dark blue - Blue card members; pink - Pink card members; orange - Orange card members; brown - Brown card members; yellow - Yellow card members
context_page_description: An International Motor Insurance Card System is an arrangement between authorities and insurance organizations of multiple states to ensure that victims of road traffic accidents do not suffer from the fact that injuries or damage sustained by them were caused by a visiting motorist rather than a motorist resident in the same country.
  Additionally to extending the insurance coverage territorial scope such systems have the benefit for motorists to avoid the need to obtain insurance cover at each of the frontiers of the countries which they visit.
  There are multiple motor insurance systems around the world, established on regional basis. The first was the Green Card system established in 1949 in Europe, but later other regions followed suit.
context_section_description: The Green Card System is primarily a European system. It presently includes most, but not all European countries, and some of their neighbors, in most cases bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The position of the CoBx is that the Green card system could be joined by the countries "west of the Urals and the Caspian Sea and countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea", but this rule is not followed strictly as Iran and Iraq fall outside of the area as described.
  Additionally, insurance companies or national bureaux of some countries participate in the Green card system through foreign national bureaux:
   Liechtenstein through Switzerland; Liechtenstein is part of the single box as an EEA member
   Monaco through France
   San Marino through Italy
    Vatican City through Italy
  Former member states:
   Iraq (1982–1992)
  According to recommendation of the Management Committee of CoBx it is strongly recommended that the geographical scope of the Green card System should be restricted to the following additional states, in accordance with the European and Mediterranean rule: Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Georgia and possibly upon further consideration Armenia. Instead of expansion further than that, it is recommended to examine arrangements of cooperation with other motor insurance systems. In 2012 it was decided to add Kazakhstan to the list of potential members since part of it lies west of the Urals.
  Countries that are currently candidates for membership are:
   Georgia (2003)
   Armenia (2009)
  In 2008 the Economic Cooperation Organization asked the CoBx for cooperation and since some of its members are outside the geographical scope of the Green card system, it was suggested that the ECO members would establish their regional motor insurance system - the White card system. At the same time there are discussion whether the scope of the Green card system should be expanded to all UNECE members or to abandon geographical limitations in exchange for criteria based on the density of trade exchanged by road between the candidate country and the existing members of the System.
  In 2011 Kosovo submitted application for membership, but it was concluded that the conditions of vehicle license plate international recognition and UN membership are not fulfilled.
  The UNECE Afro-Eurasian members states currently outside the Green card system are: Armenia (candidate), Georgia (candidate), Kazakhstan (potential candidate), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
  Other states, falling within the defined geographical scope of the Green card system (or participating in cooperation activities in the Mediterranean region such as the EMP and/or the UfM), but not participating are:
  Jordan
  Mauritania
  most of the states with limited recognition: Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
caption:   Green card members   Green card candidates or participating through foreign bureaux 
     Orange card members   White card members (proposed)   Blue card members   Yellow card members   Brown card members   Pink card members
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