Regulation of claims resulting from traffic accidents occurring in another Member State

The committee unanimously adopted the proposal for a resolution calling for the Commission to present a draft directive to help the victim of a road traffic accident enforce a claim in other Member State against a resident of that state and against an insurer established in that state (right of direct action). The rapporteur did not favour harmonization of traffic liability arrangements and therefore proposed a system under which a claim for damages could be quickly and efficiently enforced in another Member State through an agent authorized to settle claims caused by vehicles insured by an insurer in a Member State other than the state of origin of the victim and an information agency which could give the victim of the accident the name of the agent in question. �