PURPOSE: to
codify legislation on insurance against civil liability in respect of the use
of motor vehicles, and the enforcement of the obligation to insure against
such liability.
PROPOSED ACT:
Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council.
CONTENT: the
purpose of the present proposal is to undertake a codification:
- 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;
- of the
second Council Directive 84/5/ECC of 30 December 1983 on the
approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against
civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles;
- of the third
Council Directive 90/232/EEC of 14 May 1990 on the approximation of the
laws of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability
in respect of the use of motor vehicles;
- of Directive
2000/26/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 May 2000
on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to
insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor
vehicles (fourth motor insurance Directive);
- of Directive
2005/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005
amending Council Directives 72/166/ECC, 84/5/ECC, 88/357/EEC and
90/232/EEC and Directive 2000/26/EC of the European Parliament and of
the Council relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of
the use of motor vehicles.
The new Directive
will supersede the various acts incorporated in it. It will fully preserve
the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them
together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification
exercise itself.