Browsing Category road transport
Insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles. The Court of Justice rules on the burden of proof in relation to the injured party’s knowledge of the theft of a vehicle
It is for the body specified in Article 10(1) of Directive 2009/103/EC to prove, in order to discharge itself from its obligation to pay compensation, that, in the event of a road traffic accident, the injured party who voluntarily entered the vehicle which caused the damage or injury knew that it was stolen
The Court of Justice rules on the imposition of a flat-rate fine for all offences under the rules on the obligation to make prior payment of the toll for use of a road infrastructure
The requirement of proportionality according to Directive 1999/62/EC precludes a system of penalties that provides for the imposition of a flat-rate fine or financial penalty for all offences, whatever their nature and gravity, under the rules on the obligation to make prior payment of the toll for use of a road infrastructure, including where that system provides for the possibility of being exempted from administrative criminal liability by paying a flat-rate redress charge
Road transport. The Court of Justice rules on the concept of “employer’s operational centre where the driver is normally based”
The concept of “employer’s operational centre where the driver is normally based” designates a place from which the driver concerned usually carries out his or her shift and to which he or she returns at the end of that shift, in the normal exercise of his or her functions and without complying with specific instructions from his or her employer in that regard