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The Internal Regulations (IR) constitute a system of rules which are regulating the details of the cover and the settlement of claims between 46 national bureaux of insurance of the so called « Green Card System ». This agreement has been adopted by the 2002 General Assembly of the Council of Bureaux (CoB). It replaced the agreements which where in force until then, namely the London Agreement and the Multilateral Guarantee Agreement, and combined their provisions into a new unique document. The Internal Regulations came in force 1st July 2003.
The Internal Regulations regulates both the relations between bureaux whose relations are based on the « Green Card» (section II IR) as well as the relations between bureaux whose relations depend on the existence of valid vehicle registration (section III IR). As a matter of fact, within the Green Card System, the system of sufficient insurance cover in the framework of international road traffic is ruled in two different manners:
- When a vehicule originates from a country whose national insurance bureau is a signatory of the Multilateral Agreement (which replaced the above mentioned Multilateral Guarantee Agreement), it is presumed – provided that the registration is valid and that the insurance bureau of the visited country is also a signatory of the Multilateral Agreement – that this vehicle disposes of sufficient insurance cover for accidents caused on the territory of the visited country (cf. map below, blue/purple countries).
- In the situation where the international road traffic takes place between two countries whose national insurance bureaux are not signatories of the Multilateral Agreement, sufficient cover for accidents caused on the territory of the visited country presupposes the presentation of a valid green card emitted by the insurance bureau of the country of origin of the vehicle (cf. map below, green countries). This is also valid when one of the two above mentioned countries respectively its insurance bureau is not a signatory of the Multilateral Agreement.
In the course of time, the Internal Regulations have been complemented with the Explanatory Memorandum. This document contains compulsory provisions that specifiy and/or complement the Internal Regulations.
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Agreements
Internal Regulations CoB
Internal Regulations Agreement (IR) / 2008 edition
Explanatory Memorandum to IR / 2010 edition
