Negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on Tuesday 22 June on the revision of the Motor Insurance Directive (see EUROPE B12026A6), proposed in 2018, to strengthen compensation for victims of road accidents in a cross-border context.
The agreement maintains the general principle that each Member State must set up or mandate a body to compensate injured parties habitually resident in its territory for damage caused by a vehicle insured by an...