Brussels, 19/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has decided to take the Netherlands to the European Court of Justice for having failed to implement the fourth directive on motor insurance by the arranged date, 20 July 2002. In a press statement released on Thursday, the spokesman explained that, " Until the Directive is properly applied throughout the EU, drivers from one Member State involved in an accident with a car registered and insured in another Member State will still face serious difficulties in claiming compensation quickly". Similar cases have been launched against France, Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland and Portugal. Under the Directive, Member States are also required to: impose sanctions to accelerate compensation, where liable insurers take more than three months to make a reasoned reply to a compensation request ; establish information centres to deal with motor vehicle insurance issues in general, so as to make it easier for accident victims to find out who insures the liable party; establish a compensation body to settle claims in cases where there is no claims representative or where the liable insurer is too slow to settle.