The main objective of the Green Card System,
which operates since 1st January, 1953, is to ensure that any party injured in a traffic accident may receive due compensation for loss or injury caused by the
driver of a vehicle registered abroad and that motorists are not forced to take out insurance against civil liability of motor vehicle holders on the frontier of
each of the visited countries.
The member countries of the System achieve that aim by establishing, on the basis of the regulations of the Geneva Recommendation
( Recommendation No. 5 on Insurance of Motorists Against Third Party Risks - 25.01.1949), a system of bilateral agreements on the strength of which an
International Certificate of Insurance (the Green Card) is recognized by the governments of the States whose National Bureaux are members of the System -
without any additional formalities and charges - as proof of the existence of civil liability insurance in accordance with the law on insurance in force in their country.
The System is managed by the Council of Bureaux set up by the National Bureaux
of Member States of the System.
The Green Card System is in principle a system of European States; at present, it comprises nearly all European insurance markets as well as Iran, Israel,
Morocco and Tunisia. The basic conditions of accession to the System are the existence, in the State whose National Bureau is an applicant,
of compulsory insurance against civil liability of motor vehicle holders and the establishment of a National Bureau representing the insurance market concerned.
At present, the Green Card System is an association of 45 National Bureaux.
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