Highlights – Motor Insurance Directive: committee vote – Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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The Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection will vote on the provisional inter-institutional agreement on the Motor Insurance Directive, on 12 July. The amended rules aim to better protect injured people when accidents occur in any EU member state, including domestic victims of an accident caused by a driver from another EU country. They also harmonise minimum amounts of cover. Victims of accidents will also be protected if a liable party’s insurance company goes bankrupt.

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