The Polish Insurance Association (the PIU) informs that the Official Journal of the European Union No. L 263/11 from the 7th of October 2009 published a „Directive of the European Parliament the Council 2009/103/EC from the 16th September 2009 on the third party liability insurance or damages resulting from the traffic of motor vehicles and executing the mandatory character of this type of liability insurance.”

The Directive 2009/103/EC is a result of the codification initiative from 2008 by the European Commission and it contains a unified version of binding (until now) five directives on motor vehicles traffic by the Council of European Communities.

The Directive was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, and its Polish version is available on the following website:

http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:263:0011:0031:PL:PDF