Gloss to the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 21 December 2021 C-428/20 on the Method of Determining the Amounts Guaranteed in National Law while Increasing Them Following an Amendment to a Directive

Abstract

The gloss refers to the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 21 December 2021 in Case C-428/20. According to this judgment, Member States which have availed themselves of the option to determine a transitional period, with this option having been provided for in EU legislation on compulsory insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles, are obliged to require that the minimum amounts guaranteed in motor third party liability insurance contracts concluded before the lapse of the transitional period but still in force on that date have the amount required by EU law